▲ 509 ▼ IGN | Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered (www.ign.com) submitted 3 years ago by TheSparrowPrince@lemmy.world to c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film 74 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (3 children) Yeah, I've seen it too. Anybody got good suggestions for alternatives? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] artsii@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Check out Letterboxd. But the star rating system is used a bit differently than you might be used to, like an average move will get a 3/5 stars, and that’s not a “bad” score. Just took me a bit getting used to permalink fedilink source parent [–] trachemys@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Forget aggregators. Find a couple critics you usually agree with. People have different tastes. permalink fedilink source parent [–] dlpkl@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) The issue is that every site uses the same critics to aggregate scores from. That being said I like using metacritic since you can view it by audience rating, and excluding the anti-woke, incel brigades on some media it usually aligns pretty well with what score I'd personally give a movie. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] artsii@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Check out Letterboxd. But the star rating system is used a bit differently than you might be used to, like an average move will get a 3/5 stars, and that’s not a “bad” score. Just took me a bit getting used to permalink fedilink source parent
[–] trachemys@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Forget aggregators. Find a couple critics you usually agree with. People have different tastes. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dlpkl@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) The issue is that every site uses the same critics to aggregate scores from. That being said I like using metacritic since you can view it by audience rating, and excluding the anti-woke, incel brigades on some media it usually aligns pretty well with what score I'd personally give a movie. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent