Ratings/Reviews

This page provides links to pages within this site which offer lists based on others’ ratings and reviews. In addition, there are links on this page to sites which offer ratings and reviews. There are also links to movie picks from various critics and directors. Links to Dave’s Movie Database Lists Based on Ratings and Reviews: Critics’ Lists of Favorites Aaron Caldwell (2008) Mark Caldwell (2008) David Gritten, Telegraph Film Critic (6/21/2013) Derek Malcolm, Guardian critic (Nov. 2000) Tim Robey, Telegraph Film Critic (2017) Peter Travers (2006). 1000 Best Movies on DVD (book) Directors’ Lists of Favorites Woody Allen Francis Ford Coppola Guillermo del Toro Lena Dunham Rian Johnson Stanley Kubrick Christopher Nolan Martin Scorsese Quentin Tarantino Orson Welles Edgar Wright Sources for Ratings and Reviews: Amazon One has to search for specific movie titles, but then can find an overall rating for the movie and more detailed customer reviews. Business Insider List of top 50 movies with critics’ scores from Metacritic.com and user scores from an unidentified source. Common Sense Media Reviews focused on whether or not films are appropriate for different ages. Roger Ebert A searchable database of reviews written by famous film critic Roger Ebert. Some are from his series of Great Movies books and others are from his original newspaper reviews. Also includes reviews written by others after Ebert’s death in 2013. Films101.com This site includes best-of lists, awards, and ratings in a searchable database. There’s no indication who determined the ratings. Internet Movie Database One of the best resources out there for details about movies. Presents detailed cast listings, box office reports, movie reviews, and user ratings. LetterBoxd Searchable database with reviews and viewer ratings. Leonard Maltin This is a list of the films which reviewer Leonard Maltin gave 4 out of 4 stars, as of 2015. Metacritic Gathers reviews and ratings from multiple sources on different forms of media and then presents “metascores” which are aggregates of those scores from other sources. Rotten Tomatoes Same idea as Metacritic with the focus more on movies. Total Film Actually links to GamesRadar.com, where there is a searchable database for movies. Not as easy to use as other sites. Ultimate Movie Ratings Looks like a fan-created site. Has links to pages for actors, but searches don’t seem to bring up movies. A few lists were found on this and aggregated into a best-of lists here on this site. The original links include critic audience ratings and Ultimate Movie Rating scores. Originally posted 8/15/2019; last updated 6/9/2023.