What websotes do you use for movies reviews?

[Elodan]

Out of curiosity, which websites do you go to for reviews of new movie releases.

Thanks.

 

[ggroy]

One-star and two-star reviews on amazon.com

A sign of a really awful movie is when more than half of the amazon.com reviews are one-star and two-star ones.

 

[Morrus]

I use websites for news, but not reviews. These days it's so easy to get word of mouth opinions from communities or social networks you're involved with that review sites are less useful (to me at least).

 

[MarkB]

I don't bother much with reviews, but if I get curious, I generally find IGN fairly reasonable.

 

[Murph Murphy]

The guys over at Alcohollywood line up with my movies tastes. Plus drinks!

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Metacritic

 

[Umbran]

Rottentomatoes and metacritic. I don't find the specifics of a review useful. An aggregate of general opinions may give me some indication of value - if it is running under 10% on the tomatometer, or over 90%, I am generally guaranteed the film will be respectively bad or good. If it is running in the middle, my own preferences will tend to trump the general issues that determine the average, so I can flip a coin.

 

[Janx]

I use websites for news, but not reviews. These days it's so easy to get word of mouth opinions from communities or social networks you're involved with that review sites are less useful (to me at least).

The danger with websites (say forums), is that some people just don't like anything. And they have good points. Which basically means that if you read their opinion and go "yeah, that makes sense on why that movie must have sucked" you'll basically miss out on stuff that everybody else likes.

So, I go with my gut. A DC or Marvel super hero film comes out, I go see it. New Star Trek or Lord of the Hobbit, I go see it. Other stuff, depends on if I liked the idea put forth in the trailer.

I don't watch Will Ferrell movies or those furiously fast movies or anything resembling either.

 

[ggroy]

Rottentomatoes and metacritic. I don't find the specifics of a review useful. An aggregate of general opinions may give me some indication of value - if it is running under 10% on the tomatometer, or over 90%, I am generally guaranteed the film will be respectively bad or good. If it is running in the middle, my own preferences will tend to trump the general issues that determine the average, so I can flip a coin.

This is more or less what I do too, but with amazon.com ratings.

But in the case of amazon.com ratings, one-star and two-star ratings also includes stuff indirectly related to the movie quality itself, such as stuff like technical problems from particular defective dvd discs. For example, the most famous case of this was the James Bond "Casino Royale" dvd released by Sony back in early 2007, which did not play at all on some Sony manufactured dvd players.

 

[Jhaelen]

I'm generally starting with IMDB. From there I sometimes follow links to external reviews on some of the sites already mentioned.