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>>tortil+(OP)
For me the the only review service that is worth any salt is for video games and it's Steam Reviews

-Requires the reviewer to actually own / play the game

-Highlights the amount of time played so you can easily filter out people who just dismissed

-Lets you know who got the game for free or reviewed the game in early access

-The magnitude of votes is shown which lets you know if it is a niche title or mainstream blockbuster

-Gives you a timeline of votes so you can see changes over time and see if there are any review bomb cycles happening

It's not perfect but I find it wild that people think there is any value in these movie review aggregator sites when you can't even verify if the person watched the movie at all and these guys can just spam votes. Worse yet there isn't any incentive for the site to change this since more traffic means more eyeballs for ads.

>>miamib+Mg3
Netflix when it was just DVDs had amazing community reviews.

The quality of reviews was really good.

>>duxup+Hu3
I think a large part of that is that Netflix when it was just DVDs was in the age before systematic review abuse reached its current state of the art, and before it became profitable for companies to participate. Amazon's standout strength used to be its reviews!

>>JadeNB+pT3
I think it helped too that the volume of experienced film enthusiasts who would order dvds early in the Netflix days and write reviews was probably pretty high.