My rating personality

I've rated 171 of the 746 films I've logged (23%). For those, I can compare my half-star rating to the weighted average of the Letterboxd community — scraped from each film's page. Every chart on this page is built from the intersection of "I rated it" and "we have a crowd rating," which happens to be all 171 rated films.

My rating distribution

Half-star bins. The mode sits at 5, the tail below 3 is short — part generosity, part selection bias (I rate films I cared enough about to form an opinion on).

Me vs. the crowd

The centerpiece. Each point is a rated film: x is Letterboxd's weighted community rating, y is mine. Points on the diagonal agree with the crowd; points above mean I'm more generous than the room, points below mean I'm harsher. Hover for the film.

How far off am I, typically?

My rating minus crowd rating, per film. A positive delta means I rated above the crowd. The mean (dashed line) tells you where my calibration sits overall.

Unpopular opinions

Films where my rating and the crowd's disagree the most. Crowd ratings of exactly 0.5 or 5.0 are excluded (almost always low-N edge cases). Left: films I loved more than the crowd did. Right: films I panned harder than the crowd.

Hidden gems

A handful of films I rated highly (4.5+) that sit in the bottom quartile of TMDB popularity and the crowd also liked (Letterboxd weighted average ≥ 3.5). The third filter is what makes this category specific — it's not "I disagreed with the crowd" (that's the unpopular-opinions cut above) but "the crowd and I both rate this highly, yet few people have seen it."

Rating by decade

My ratings across film release decades. Each dot is a film I rated; the orange mark is the decade's mean. Decades with few rated films (pre-1990) should be read as anecdote, not trend.

What this page actually shows

Across 171 rated films, I rate 0.41 stars above the Letterboxd crowd on average. Nearly two-thirds of my ratings sit above the diagonal in the calibration scatter. Here's what that signal breaks down to:

Discovery: My 2010s ratings run +0.57 above the crowd (63 films — real signal, not noise). My 1990s ratings run −0.15 (8 films — directional but thin). The Laundromat, Fast Five, and Rebel Moon at the top of my contrarian-loves list confirm what the decade data hints at: I respond to genre and spectacle more warmly than the Letterboxd userbase does. Action: When scanning my watchlist, I can trust my instincts on genre picks even when community scores are lukewarm. A 3.5 on Letterboxd doesn't mean a 3.5 for me.

Discovery: My harshest contrarian pans — Braveheart, Pirates 5, On Her Majesty's Secret Service — are all established canon of genres I normally enjoy. These aren't random low scores; they're specific films I bounced off hard. Action: Worth re-examining those ratings. Either my taste shifted, or there's something shared across these films I can name.

Discovery: Only a handful of films qualify as hidden gems (rated 4.5+, bottom quartile of TMDB popularity, crowd rating 3.5+). The list leans documentary at the top end — Blackfish and The Rescue are both 5/5 and both well outside the mainstream. Action: Documentaries are underrepresented on my watchlist relative to how consistently I rate them highly. Worth biasing my queue toward more documentary picks.

One limitation worth naming

The +0.41 mean delta is partly real taste divergence, partly selection bias — I rate 23% of what I watch, and I'm probably more likely to rate films I felt strongly enough about to engage with. A harsher rater who rates everything would show different calibration numbers from the same underlying preferences.