Critic·Match
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Critic-mediated collaborative filtering

Stop arguing about what to watch.
Find the film you will both love.

Critic-Match builds your taste profile by measuring how closely you agree with 130 real film critics — then cross-references it with a friend's to surface only the films where both of your top critics agree.

Build my taste profileI already have an account
600 films130 critics15,087 real reviews20 films to build your profile
Your profile, step 120 films · about 2 minutes
Joker2019
ActionAdventure68%
Toy Story 42019
AnimationComedy97%
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood2019
ComedyDrama85%

Like, shrug or dislike each one. Skip anything you have not seen — we only use films you actually have an opinion about.

What you get back
sim(u,c) = Σ ru,m·rc,m / ( √Σ ru,m² · √Σ rc,m² )

Your top 10 critics by cosine similarity, each with a real match percentage — then a shared deck scored across both profiles.

Three steps, and the arguing stops

The whole point is that neither of you has to compromise. A film only reaches the top of the shared deck when the critics you trust and the critics they trust both liked it.

Step 1

Rate 20 films

A cross-genre starter set, deliberately weighted toward films with dense review coverage so your profile has real evidence behind it from the first screen.

Step 2

Meet your critics

We compare your ratings against every critic's published verdicts over the films you have both covered, and keep the ten you agree with most.

Step 3

Share a deck

Pick a friend and get films neither of you has rated, scored by both sets of critics. Mark anything you have seen and the queue re-ranks instantly.

Try it immediately

Three demo accounts are already set up

Seeded with genuinely different tastes, matched against real critics, and already friends with each other — so you can open a shared deck in two clicks.

alice · horror & thriller
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bob · prestige drama
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carol · crowd-pleasers
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Provenance, plainly

Where the data comes from

Film metadata, critic names, publications, review text and Fresh/Rotten verdicts come from a real Rotten Tomatoes export (15,087 reviews across 130 critics). Each critic's era bias, mainstream bias, contrarianism and severity are computed from that corpus, not asserted.

Audience scores are supplemented from a Metacritic export and shown for context only — they are never fed into the matching or scoring maths.

Read the full method