Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down: Is Rating Films Actually Worthwhile Communication?

Get out your spreadsheets fellow film nerds, this episode is dedicated to you!  It will for once be decided if the answers are truly written in the stars, or if the good old 10/10 system is more than enough. In our effort to discover the best rating systems and make sense of some of the universe's greatest questions we will also, of course, insult every fan of Rotten Tomatoes and At the Movies. IMDb's 10/10 scale vs. Letterboxd's 5/5 scale will be examined, and hell, even good old Criticker will get a mention. We will also discuss some of the rarer and dear systems, such as the classic Norwegian die role, and ask: just extreme can we be.  Don't be surprised, some of us have used the 100/100 scale, and there are still active promoters of 20/20. Above all though, we will ask the key question: Are ratings actually a worthwhile form of communication?