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Yeah, I've seen it too. Anybody got good suggestions for alternatives?
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
Forget aggregators. Find a couple critics you usually agree with. People have different tastes.
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.