What website do you trust for movie ratings?

Rotten Tomatoes

I like that movies.yahoo.com shows the average critics’ review rating as well as their average users’ rating side-by-side.

The one in my head, I prefer to trust my own judgement. Not let me down yet….well maybe once.

Not a fan of movie ratings, although I enjoy reading film analysis of complex films (by Lynch, for example) after I have seen the film at least once.

So far, I haven’t found any reviewer that writes consistently with my views after watching the film. I always take it with a grain of salt when any review veers off from whatever perceived expectations I have before watching the film. Although sometimes, Rotten Tomatoes tend to agree with my observations but that’s the thing, only sometimes. : )

I use Rotten Tomatoes but I don’t always agree with its rating. There have been some films I have really enjoyed that got around 35% and some very run of the mill films getting 90%. The reviews are worth reading and can give a good impression of the film.

I like Mark Kermode

I usually go to Rotten Tomatoes, they also have user reviews (there’s an “Audience” rating to the right of the critics rating.)

I know this isn’t your specific question, but I read my local paper instead if I want to read film reviews. Though I don’t like the idea of reading them before you see the movie, just because I feel you’re setting yourself up for confirmation bias.

When you then watch the film you will have preconceived ideas about it and you will concentrate (consciously or not) on finding things that confirm what the reviewer has said. (Unless you’re very critical and try to find things which contradict the review).

Reading the review afterwards however, I find is easier to say well I agree or disagree with that, that and that. :P Just my opinion anyway.

I only trust one movie critic. Armond White

I prefer http://rogerebert.com/ Personally, I tend to agree with his views on most movies.

I like Ebert because he occasionally loves a movie I happen to love, but nobody else does. He also has good politics in my opinion, and he has a pretty good attitude about life. And I think people need to get over the damn Ryan Dunn thing. I know some asshat is going to mention this.

I actually like to read the members reviews on Netflix. A lot of them are pretty well written (not all of them) and there’s usualy quite a few of them for each movie, so you can read a bunch of them and see if there is some sort of consensus. And you can also kind of tell the style and interests of the writers and see if they have similar sensibilities to your self. I’ve chosen and rejected selecting movies based upon Neflix member reviews. Mostly I’ve agreed with the ones that I’ve ended up choosing.

I generally like rotten tomatoes. They arent always spot on to what I would think of the movie but I like that its an average of all the critics instead of only 1 random guys opinion.

Rotten Tomatoes. I might not agree with the overall rating, but there’s usually at least one user who will have the same thoughts on it as I do.

A Critical Consensus is a list of recent movies with critics ratings averaged.
I also like Ebert, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, and Girls On Film, which I think is extinct.

@tom_g

“And I think people need to get over the damn Ryan Dunn thing.”

What was the thing involving Ryan Dunn?

@Brian1946: “What was the thing involving Ryan Dunn?”

Shhhhh! I shouldn’t have mentioned it. Forget I did. :)

@tom_g I don’t know the Ryan Dunn either. Will google it.

Thanks all for your answers!

Criticker is a fairly decent site.