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Ratings that survive being questioned

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Rate the parts. Get the score.

Rate what actually matters in a film or series — then get the exact number to put into IMDb, Letterboxd and Rotten Tomatoes.

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  • IMDb
  • Letterboxd
  • Rotten Tomatoes
  • TMDB

Rate the parts

Skip anything you have no opinion on — a skipped pillar is left out of the maths, never counted as a zero.

4.5 · Really liked it / Loved it
Required
4 · Sharp
4.5 · Excellent / Career-defining
5 · Breathtaking
3.5 · Fits / Great

Your score

–/100

That is the real engine, not a mock-up — drag a slider and the numbers you would enter on each platform move with it.

One number cannot hold all of it

Rate the parts you actually have an opinion about. Skip the rest — a skipped pillar is left out of the maths, never counted as a zero.

  • Subjective

    Required

    Did you enjoy it? No justification needed — this is the only one you must answer.

  • Story & Writing

    Plot, structure, dialogue, themes. Does the script hold up?

  • Acting

    Performances across the cast, not just the lead.

  • Cinematography

    Framing, lighting, camera movement, colour. How it looks.

  • Music & Sound

    Score, soundtrack, sound design. How it sounds.

  • Special Effects

    VFX and practical effects. Skip it if the work doesn't lean on them.

  • Costume & Production Design

    Costumes, sets, props — does the world feel real and considered?

  • Directing

    Vision and control. Does everything pull in the same direction?

  • Pacing & Editing

    Does it earn its runtime? Rate the cut, not the length.

  • Compared to everything

    Against every film and series you have ever seen — where does this land?

  • Compared to its genre

    Against others of its kind. A great horror film can still be a mediocre film.

  • Quality over time

    Plot the curve: strong open, sagging middle, great ending? Drag the points.

Some films are not one quality all the way through

Plot the curve instead of averaging your memory of it. A sagging middle and a great ending are different films from a slow decline.

  • Cold open · 4.5
  • The middle hour · 3
  • It finds itself again · 3.5
  • Final scene · 5

Sticks the landing averages 3.78 out of 5

Everything else you expect from a film diary

The rating model is the new part. The rest works the way you already know.

  • A diary that counts rewatches

    Log what you watched and when. Rewatches are their own entries, so the fifth viewing does not overwrite the first.

    Start logging

  • Lists, ranked or not

    Build a top ten, a watch-with-your-parents list, or a pile of things you keep meaning to get to.

    Browse lists

  • The cast and crew graph

    Follow an actor into a director into a cinematographer, and watch your own taste turn into a map.

    Open the graph

  • A year in review, and odder stats

    Your year as a recap, plus the numbers nobody else tracks — the weekday you watch most, your longest streak, the genre you rate hardest.

    See a recap

  • Themes worth looking at

    Palettes borrowed from the look of films you already love. Tweak one, or author your own and share it.

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  • Watchlist, likes and reviews

    Everything you expect from a film diary, without the part where a single star rating has to mean everything.

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Rate one film properly and you will not want to go back

Free, and your weights are yours — change what a score means to you at any point, and decide for yourself whether your back catalogue gets rescored.

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