IMDb

IMDB, an Amazon owned site, does not accurately or realistically reflect the opinions of it's users. Reviews are 'moderated'. That means if they're unflattering because they point out radical left propaganda inside of supposed entertainments, they will be censored. Similarly, the low scoring of companies paying Amazon for promotion on the site (e.g. Disney), will not objectively represent the scoring of the audience. It's all skewed to create a positive impression in the name of marketing.

When a site decides to delete reviews wholesale it is not a reliable site. Case in point, there are no reviews below 6 on the site for 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'. There is absolutely NO CHANCE that this is even remotely possible. The show is produced by Amazon which owns this website. That should tell you all you need to know.

One-stop shop for all things movies and TV shows? Look no further than IMDb! This platform has it all, from ratings and reviews to cast and crew information, trailers, and more. Whether you're a casual viewer or a die-hard fan, IMDb has something for everyone.

IMDb solves the problem of having to scour the internet for information about movies and TV shows. With everything in one place, it's easy to find what you're looking for quickly and efficiently. Plus, the user reviews and ratings help you make informed decisions about what to watch next.

Great free resource to use when you need details on a movie or TV show quickly.

While IMDb is a great resource, it's not without its flaws. The search function can be a bit finicky at times, and some of the user reviews can be unreliable. However, these are minor issues that don't detract from the overall usefulness of the platform.

Overall, IMDb is a must-have tool for any movie or TV show lover. Its vast library of information and user-friendly interface makes it a breeze to use

This funny message is sent always to you when you are trying to edit any of your page information! ''Unfortunately we were unable to accept your submission as we were unable to verify the information provided''
But they are very much ABLE to accept your money without giving you any services

I think IMDb is a great site for all movie's info, and not just for movies, for Tv shows as well. You can find everything that you need about some actor in matter of seconds, which really helped me to choose what to watch next. One more thing that I really like is that they provide you with trailer's as well, so that make my life much easier!

This site is heavily manipulated by the staff. They will not allow critical reviews of some movies/shows. I suspect they have some financial interest in these cases. They also censor anyone with a conservative view point and anyone that criticizes wokeness. You can literally test this yourself by posting two reviews of the same movie (one critical and one supportive). The supportive one will be published almost immediately while the negative one will never be published. Bottom line, you can't trust this site as they are dirty.

I'm the most censored person on IMDb.

I was probably why IMDb has become so bad. I often spoke my mind honestly. Now my reviews get censored before they are posted.
I wrote a critical and pg review about the Eternal movie and it still has not posted.

I was once an active member of Mandy but I listened to some advice from others and signed on with a rival site for production work. I have not worked and only paid fees in a space where nobody knew me and i couldn't get help. Hence, I have returned to Mandy where I was active when I was actively working on films and television series in New York. Although I am based in Los Angeles these days, my past positive experiences with Mandy and associates using the site gives me hope for brighter days ahead. Of course the slow down in work was partially due to covid, but we are back up and running now and I aim to work.

But now every so called "improvement" makes it harder to navigate.
It just needs to go back to the simplicity of how it was before.

I always use the app as my go-to if undecided on a film. However like a lot of user -based review sites it's a platform for the disease known as "review bombing", often by people who've not even watched the film but got told to by Twitter lol. Ignore any review 10/10 and 1/10 and look for more balanced views which sit on between 3/10 to 8/10. It still takes a bit longer and needs reading but you'll find enough objective views. The level of customisation, library of info, lists and features is superior to Rotten tomatoes, although that can be a negative too as usability and navigation is better on RT. However the review panel for RT do seem to getting out of touch with everyday folks, particular with just plain old fun, creative escapism type films that you can sit and enjoy them with the kids on a Sunday afternoon. This is often evident in the wide score margins between critic and user review!

This is generally the best site for finding info about both movies and TV shows, but with some inconsistencies. Although foreign films are there to be found, the plot and cast info can be less informative than for US-made films. Some older short films aren't there at all, but that might not worry too many people.

Not professional! They don't care if they are truthful or not. And don't care to fix the lies they post. Don't trust them!

I notice something that call my attention's lately, i used to love IMDB but became totally unreliable with Votes. Some movies have a top REVIEW, but i cannot found positive reviews, so is likely managed by payments or arrangements by Studios?
Still is a good option for checking some Trailers.

IMDB takes way too long to go to my account settings. It was well over thirty minutes and the site never loaded. For an Amazon owned website, this is completely unacceptable.

On top of rating manipulations, reviews are heavily censored in favor of woke identity politics, which is prevalent in most modern films.

This website is filled with so much promotional material that it is unusable. There are positive reviews of films and programs before they are released. Bigoted comments are seen in some reviews and they are not removed.

They ban a lot of bad movie reviews, and their actual movie rating is missleadning to the public...

I've used IMDB for over ten years and I always used the message boards as a way to find answers on movies. IMDB has decided to remove the message boards deeming it pointless and that it adds nothing resourceful. I don't agree and many people don't either. Now that the website has gotten rid of the boards, it's impossible to discuss or find answers to movies, especially independent movies and lesser known movies.

Therefore, it makes this website a little less resourceful than it was before. It gives accurate information for movies. Other than that, people will no longer have reason to visit this website. The most you can do is look at movies, upcoming films and what actors are in what films. I'm sure with the message boards gone, IMDB has lost traffic. I'm really disappointed. I always thought IMDB would be the most popular and permanent solution to movie discussions with other people, but I guess not. FAQs for films are helpful, but not as helpful as the message boards were.

Used to be good but no longer trustworthy due to manupilating ratings on select titles. Used it for decades, now it's time to move on.

I just posted a review of "Elvis" last week. I think, for the first time ever, I had the majority of readers agree with it and it was getting popular. I logged into IMDB only to find my review was totally removed. There was nothing controversial about it, nothing remotely offensive, I simply described why I did not like the movie. IMDB made it disappear. I won't be surprised if they make my "Prey" review disappear too.

I mean, this is a movie review site. The minute you start making reviews disappear because you didn't agree with them is the minute your site loses any and all credibility. Simply put, you cannot trust this site anymore. It's not what it used to be. There are plenty of uncensored social media sites we are allowed to express our views on, so good luck with this strategy guys.

I changed settings repeatedly for two weeks to rid my email box of childish spam. No luck, no help, no account. I closed the damned thing.

UPDATE: It's obvious that just like they allow trolls to manipulate ratings on their own site AND how they now ALSO manipulate ratings on their OWN site (See: The Little Mermaid 2023), IMDB, owned by Amazon, is now posting reviews here on SiteJabber, to try and mitigate their bad rating: a rating which went from "1" - the same low score as they have on other review sites like TrustPilot - to almost a "4" in just under a month. Shameful.

In the past couple of days, my HONEST review and rating of 6 for The Little Mermaid was rejected three times, while new user's reviews that go along with IMDB's agenda for the film, keep being posted. In short, IMDB is NO LONGER TRUSTWORTHY. This is PROOF that their movie reviews (especially newer films, of course), are purposefully manipulated BY IMDB - with the driving factor not being able to be anything else BUT the almighty dollar. NOW, don't get me wrong. The issue is not that I am upset that MY review is not published. It is the fact that IMDB is proving that my prior assertion that ratings are manipulated, to be true; and when viewer's wallets are involved, in that some do rely on THE GENERAL PUBLIC'S REVIEWS (NOT IMDB's PREFERENCES), that is just WRONG for them to do. (See Amazon's 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' review on IMDB to see how Amazon/IMDB quickly shut down reviews on it).

Make no mistake about it, the review market is huge and in the multi-billion-dollar film industry, it can be bought, through IMDB.

**Since my review (below) was first published, they have updated their reporting tool by adding a comment box to their reporting feature, but reviews are still very RARELY, if EVER, deleted.

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Original Review:

IMDB is no longer a site which can be trusted for honest, correct ratings and reviews. The problem? Well, aside from the blatant and overt distortion and manipulation of ratings on a growing number of films, it is the fact that no one at IMDB seems to care. In fact, in my opinion, and I must stress that it is my opinion only, I sometimes think that maybe the site itself receives kickbacks of some kind in order to facilitate the ongoing deceptions. The reason why I so firmly believe this, is that to begin, they have no real kind of reporting tool save a report button under each person's review, which leads you to a choice of four options - none of which cover "suspected ratings manipulator" (or something similar) - and when you do choose another of the options, nothing ever comes of it. Reviews very RARELY, if EVER, get deleted from the site.

An example of one such a film out of many, is a 2015 film called Whispers ("Whispers (2015) - IMDb"). Until a year back, it had a rating of 9.2. I kid you not when I tell you that every single day, for YEARS, the creators or those involved in making the film, would "up" the rating by at least 30 votes. Every DAY. I KNEW this because of several reasons. 1. we had been duped by the high score into renting it and were irked to discover it was a terrible film; 2. After I left a bad 1-star review on it (and then saw all the other 1-star reviews on it which had been hidden at the bottom) the "fakers" came and posted THREE 10-star reviews to drown out mine, which caused me to begin checking it every SINGLE day; 3. When other people left bad reviews on it (all saying the same thing: "don't fall for the fake good reviews") the fakers would rush in and again post three or four reviews right after; and 4. Every SINGLE day the 10-Star reviews would gain almost 30 up-votes and the 1-star reviews would be down-voted at least thirty times. EVERY SINGLE DAY - FOR YEARS. I promise this is true.

After a few months of watching this, I reported it on the IMDB Get Satisfaction Page (which is anything but), only to find that it had already been reported. IMDB did NOTHING... for YEARS. During that time, I can only imagine that the creators of the film raked in money in rentals and other royalties (the film was available on RedBox where they also left fake reviews). In my eyes, IMDB was complicit in fIeecing a great number of people by not doing anything when they were advised of what was happening.

As it is, years later, that title has now (mostly) been cleared up and cleaned up. I say mostly, because although IMDB deleted a huge number of reviews (both bad and good) and removed the plumped-up ratings which brought it from the 9.2, to a more believable 4.4, the fakers STILL visit the site and have up-voted all the positive reviews back up to the top. Again, that is only ONE title out of MANY (hundreds, even?) that this is happening to. (SEE MORE example titles at the end/bottom of review).

In short, IMDB used to be great. Now it is untrustworthy.

A while back, they changed the default review "view" to Prolific Reviewer (which can be TOO easily manipulated) and they did so WITHOUT allowing individual users to SET it back to what each individual prefers, such as Helpful Reviewer, Review Date, etc. WHY would they do this? It basically invalidates peoples votes. Are we supposed to vote 'helpful' on the reviews IMDB PREFERS to show us? It's baffling!

There is one guy who boasts of submitting over 9,000 reviews, but almost EVERY one of the 6-10 titles he reviews a day, is not a review, but a plot summary (WITH spoilers and no spoiler tag). Prolific? Sure. Review? No. (If you wish to see it for yourself, he is one of the first few reviewers you can find on the 'Everything, Everywhere All at Once' page).

In short, IMDB is still a behemoth in regard to film reviews... BECAUSE THERE IS NO ONE ELSE DOING THE SAME (RT is a joke and Metacritic is too simplistic), and hey, more power to them for knowing and cashing in on that, but the more people keep falling for fake reviews and high ratings, the less people will use them. Of course, there will still be fake accounts a'plenty, and reviewers who enjoy seeing their usernames on reviews and who up-vote themselves to the top, and those who monetarily or in other ways benefit from planted reviews, but REAL users will be fewer and fewer.

And so it is with a heavy heart that I post this review. I hold a glimmer of hope that a new site, with stricter measures or perhaps better algorithms may pop up. One that would see through all the "fake", to give us clean, unvarnished opinions from one film lover to another.

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There is a Netflix film called Time Trap where 80% of the positive reviews all say the same: 'give these guys a sequel!'; 'I want to see Part 2!'; 'This should be made into a television series!'; 'there needs to be another one of these films!'... only, the first one was pretty bad... and the positive reviews mostly ADMIT that it was terrible, but always include a caveat: "Yes, there are plot holes galore and the acting is pretty bad and the ending feels rushed... BUT...". It's sad. (And yes, I fully admit that not everyone is going to like the same thing, and THIS film (NOT Whispers) :), could very well be one of those).

M Night Shyamalan's "Glass", has at least FOUR 1-Star reviews from who can only be the same person. This person talks about having wanted the film "to be about the cheerleaders" in all four small reviews AND all four "reviewers" have all reviewed the same three or four films. It isn't rocket science!:)

A Ghost Story? Again, a divisive film. Some "real reviewers" will truly, honestly, really love it and other "real reviewers" will die on the hill of how very much they passionately hated it. EITHER way, if you study it for a while, will see that some weeks all the "1 Star" reviews are overwhelmingly at the top and then it appears there is a day of... something happening... and all the higher ratings are moved up and hide the lower rating. It's hilarious!

For five years now, I have been trying to delete a factually inaccurate title I uploaded to IMDb when I was 14 years old. The customer support is a joke, they do not listen to anything I have to say and constantly defend their illogical "policies". Letterbo xd and TMDb are much much better alternatives.