Critics and crowds can tell you whether a movie is good. They can't tell you whether you'll like it. Those are different questions, and we only care about the second one.
A film sets out to do something: be a tense slow burn, a bleak character study, a big emotional swing. The aggregate scores you see on Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and the like mostly answer how well it pulls that off. That's quality, and quality is real and worth knowing. But it skips a second question: did you want a film that does that thing in the first place? A flawless version of something that isn't for you is still not for you.
We care about both. Quality tells you whether a film is well made; fit tells you whether it's made for you. So we start from the crowd's score and tune it with how well the film's choices line up with yours. The result is one number for overall compatibility: not just whether it's good, and not just whether it's your kind of thing, but how those two land together for you.
Look closely and the cracks in a single shared score show fast. Critics and general viewers often land in very different places on the same film. And from one person to the next, the disagreement is wider still: the movie one friend calls the best thing they've seen all year is the one another can't sit through. An average smooths all of that into a number that, in the end, belongs to no one in particular. We'd rather give you one that's yours.
We measure every film along eight dimensions people respond to differently. Not whether it does them well, but how far it leans each way, because that's what people actually divide on most of the time. The quiz asks where youlean on the same eight. The questions are blind on purpose: they're about what you want from a film, never about the film in front of you, so your answers reflect what you go for and not your expectations.
We start from the crowd's score, then adjust it toward you. The trick is in the weighting: the dimensions a film commits to hardest matter most.If a film is a relentless slow burn, your feeling about pace counts for a lot. If it's middle-of-the-road on emotion, your answer there barely moves the needle. Agree with a film where it leans hard, and your score climbs. Clash there, and it falls. Where the film is neutral, it's a wash.
The result is a single number: the score we think you'dgive it, out of 100. Sometimes that's near the crowd. Often it isn't, and that gap is the whole point.
It's a prediction, not a promise. We don't measure whether a film is well made, but that's already baked into the score as the starting point. From there, we adjust toward you. A number can't capture everything that makes you love something, so think of it as a sharp opinion from a friend who knows what you like, not a verdict. Your two hours are still what's at stake.