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For now. The same thing that happened to GoodReads will also happen to Letterboxd. Nobody wants to pay for a service like that to stay true to form in the long term.

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There's already plenty of group think with certain films. More and more very recently released, popular films are shooting up to the highest rated within a few days. Letterboxd should probably account for the recency bias a bit better.

A lot of movies rated 0.5 or 5 just to scale the top 250. It recently happened with Across the Spider-verse.

Right, which is why I think there's more value in finding a couple of individuals whose tastes resonate with your own, and watch their favourite things, rather than pay attention to aggregated scores.

Interesting, I haven't used GoodReads for years. Has it become compromised in some way by the Amazon acquisition?

I'd like to know this too!

I only casually use it to find books I might like. So far I've not noticed anything changed since Amazon acquired it (didn't even realise they did, in fact)

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