About True Rated
A single score that blends critic consensus, audience reception, and real community reviews so you can decide what to watch with confidence.
What data is used?
Rotten Tomatoes
The RT score is taken from averaging the audience and critic scores, sourced via the OMDB API. This is scored on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being the highest possible score.
TMDB
The audience score from The Movie Database, reflecting ratings submitted by a broad global audience.
True Rated Community
The live average of all ratings submitted by reviewers on this site. This score updates in real time as community members post new reviews.
Why True Rating Is Needed:
Critics and audiences often disagree sharply. A film can score 90% on Rotten Tomatoes yet land a 5.0 from general audiences, or vice versa. Neither view is wrong; they just measure different things.
The True Rating brings all three perspectives into a single number so you can see at a glance whether a title is universally loved or sharply divisive and then dig into the individual scores and community reviews to find out why.
How the True Rating Is Calculated
The True Rating (TR) is a simple average of every score source that is available for a given title. All scores are normalized to a 0–10 scale before averaging.
Each available score is collected: Rotten Tomatoes , TMDB , and the community average from the true rated audience.
The collected scores are summed and divided by the number of sources present.
The result is rounded to one decimal place and displayed as TR X.X. If fewer than two sources are available, the True Rating is not shown.
Formula
TR = ( RT/10 + TMDB + Community ) / number of available sources
Missing scores are excluded from data. A title with only two of the three sources still gets a True Rating.