Scoring Policy
The Celluloid Score is Celluloid's own composite metric — not a third-party trademark score. Every movie page shows all five inputs so you can verify the math yourself.
Celluloid Score = average of Critic Score, Audience Score, Metascore, Letterboxd (×20), and IMDb (×10), each on a 0–100 scale. Recommended = 60%+. Celluloid Pick = 90%+.
Why a composite score?
No single source captures how critics and audiences feel. We normalize five publicly visible numbers, average them, and label the result Celluloid Score so it is clearly ours — distinct from Tomatometer, Metascore, or IMDb averages alone.
Component sources
- Critic Score — percentage of Celluloid critics rating the film positively.
- Audience Score — percentage of general viewers rating it positively.
- Metascore — weighted critic average (0–100).
- Letterboxd — star rating converted to 0–100 (×20).
- IMDb — user rating converted to 0–100 (×10).
Tiers
- Celluloid Pick (90%+) — exceptional across sources.
- Recommended (60–89%) — generally worth watching.
- Not Recommended (<60%) — weak reception overall.
Upcoming releases
Films that have not screened for critics or audiences display no Celluloid Score and no aggregate rating markup until release — only release date and preview information.
Structured data
When a film has published Celluloid critic reviews, our schema uses the review count as
ratingCount. We do not claim five reviews when we mean five score components.