How ratings work
CinemaTrove ratings come from CinemaTrove members.
Rating scale
Members can rate a movie from 0.5 to 5 stars in half-star steps. Ratings are optional and can be changed later.
Each member has one current rating for a movie. Watching a movie more than once adds to that member’s viewing history, but it does not add another rating.
Average rating
The score shown for a movie is the average of current ratings from CinemaTrove members. The number of ratings appears beside the score so the sample size is clear.
Top-rated movies
The Top rated page uses a weighted score. It combines each movie’s average with the average across all CinemaTrove ratings. A movie’s own average has more influence as it receives more ratings.
The current calculation uses five ratings as its balancing point. Movies with at least one member rating can appear. The rating shown on each movie remains its regular unweighted average.
Rating abuse
Only CinemaTrove member ratings are included. Ratings from TMDB and streaming providers are not used.
Fabricated ratings, paid ratings, coordinated manipulation, and duplicate accounts used to distort scores may be removed under the community guidelines.