Editorial policy

The rating

Every review carries one rating out of ten, set before publication. It is the editorial desk's own number. It is not an average of other critics, a user score, or a studio figure, and it is never folded into a reader aggregate. A title hub may show an aggregate of signed-in readers' scores, clearly separate from the editorial rating.

Where the facts come from

Film facts (release year, runtime, director, cast and genres) come from the film's TMDB record. Where-to-watch rows name the legal services that carry the film and print the date the availability was checked. When a fact is missing, the row is left out rather than guessed.

Independence

Ratings and verdicts are not for sale. A review is not sponsored, and no payment changes a score or a verdict. Where the site links to a streaming, rental or purchase service, the link is there to help a reader watch the film, not to change the criticism. Where a service link earns a commission, the watch block says so.

What the site does not do

It does not invent ratings, votes, quotes, scenes or awards. It does not publish a review of a film nobody has seen, and an unreleased film is marked as a preview rather than given a verdict. It does not scrape another critic's review and present it as its own.

Corrections

If a fact is wrong, tell us through the contact page. A substantive correction updates the review's modified date. A corrected review keeps its original publication date so the record stays honest about when the criticism was written.

Editorial and member reviews

Editorial reviews are the ones published under the site's byline and rated by the desk. Signed-in readers can publish a separate member review on a film's title hub. A member review carries the reader's name and the reader's own score, and it is never mixed into the editorial rating.