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The only reliable system is, unfortunately, a lot of work and generalizes very poorly. You need to pay close attention to individual critics so you understand their tastes and how your own tastes intersect with theirs.

This is why the pre-internet system of reading your local newspaper and seeing what their film reviewer thought worked okay. From long experience you'd know that the reviewer e.g. loved anything with anti-war themes, had really high standards for romance subplots, and couldn't stand fantasy. Thus you could fit their review into your own standards and perhaps wind up interpreting an intensely negative review as a recommendation that you'd love that film.

>>kemayo+(OP)
just thumbs up or down or quickly rate 50 movies then essentially assign critics point values based on closeness to your votes and rank them strongest to least and bam you've got a personal rating system that's way better than anything they've got now

>>gremli+YO
Looks like it can be automatized and made into a new startup...