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Most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many people were dissatisfied with the website, citing issues with accessing profiles or ratings, and expressing concerns about review moderation. Customers also frequently reported problems with the product, specifically the reviews themselves, raising concerns about their authenticity and reliability. Some people were dissatisfied with the social media aspect, noting concerns about the community environment and difficulties in submitting certain reviews. However, some customers also mentioned that the site remains helpful for browsing movies, checking ratings, and keeping watchlists.

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Based on these reviews

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

IMDB is a great resource for getting information about movies. However they don't allow freedom in reviewing movies. There are certain things they don't allow people to mention, and when these things... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Ever wanted a website that accurately tells you what the show is about? Unibased reviews? A system without botting and awful maths? Well forget IMDB, this website offers none of that, you cant trust a... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely a dreadful website. THE WORST I have ever come across. It used to be my go to favourite place to look at customer reviews. Now it's impossible to even access. Amazon password nope they... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

There is terrible censorship on this website. Forget about freedom of speech. When I laughed at their stupid rule of minimum of X characters per review quoting Shakespeare "Brevity is the soul of wit"... See more


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  1. Movie Rental Store
  2. Hobby Store
  3. Movie Streaming Service
  4. Movie Theater

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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

938 reviews

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

A cesspool of a company

A cesspool of a company. Manipulating reviews. They promote bot accounts and remove honest reviews. If you go against their ideology, your review will simply be discarded.

I wonder if anyone even uses their reviews anymore.

14 August 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I use to be a big fan of IMDB…

I use to be a big fan of IMDB as I saw them as a more useful and trusted source than others like rotten tomatoes. That changed after I tried to leave my first review. I wrote a completely fair review of a film and actually went into a lot of detail when talking about it. I used no profanity either and posted my review. After 2 days my review is still not up and no communication has been received to understand why. IMDB act like they represent the average person but they don't. If you don't say what they want you to say your review will not be posted or that's what it seems like anyway even if you follow the rules. Absolutely pathetic service that act like they are giving the public a voice but are completely lying and just shaping the narrative themselves. I highly recommend anyone reading this review to not make use of IMDB.

11 August 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Dishonest Company

Dishonest Company. They were asked to remove a listing with my name due to The Right To Be Forgotten and have not. This violates my privacy. The clerk Henry was terribly misinformed and did not read the title of the movie when he tried to argue with me.

30 July 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It is not a 30 day free trial. SCAM AVOID

It is not a 30 day free trial. After 10 days they will try your card to take money. If the card does not work at that time. They will cancel your trial immediately. It is a scam. They DO NOT offer 30 days free. It is a scam. They claim they try every card on your account in their terms and conditions. BUT THEY DO NOT. They will give you a date that they will try you card which funnily enough is 30 days later. But they will try your card after 10 days. At that time they will cancel your free 30 day trial.

25 July 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Shady payment tactics

IMDBpro charged my account a renewal fee for another year, but my card had changed, so it didn't go through. It reminded me I didn't want to renew, so I cancelled my account before I could do that. They went through my Amazon payment options and charged my husband's account $139 for the renewal. He's not on imdbpro. They never should have done that. It also seems like a violation of privacy to raid my Amazon account for alternative payment options. Super shady work.

10 July 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Censorious Cowards

IMDB will not allow you to point out a movie is propaganda, which is moronic, considering most people don't want to watch propaganda.They will not allow you to notice the demographics of protagonists and antagonists. They do not want honest
reviews.

9 May 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It’s incredibly frustrating how…

It’s incredibly frustrating how difficult it has become to edit or remove information from a project I hold the full rights to. Any film in development naturally evolves, this should be understood and supported. Yet IMDbPro continues to ignore my update requests.

I've been trying to revise the plot summary of one of my projects, but the process has become a nightmare. I’ve also attempted to remove my contact number from my profile, the system says the change was approved, yet the number still appears. I genuinely don’t know what else to do at this point.

For a platform I pay for, and which is meant to support industry professionals, the experience has been disappointingly unresponsive and unhelpful.

5 May 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I work to this platform they said you…

I work to this platform they said you like movies and you will get salary I did every time when I liked movies after 10 movies they asked me to deposit money and then I’m able to like another movies I did I wasted all my money to this company and I’m not able to withdraw my money back, it’s a big scammer first they ask you buy rating the movies you will get pay and after they ask you to deposit

25 April 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Too many fake 10 star reviews that do not get removed as they do not care.

I have used this site for over a decade.

In the last 5 years it has massively gotten worse due to fake 10 star reviews.

Many are written purely by AI now or just fake accounts writing ridiculous 10 star reviews.

It can be the worst movie and the 10 star reviews will be like "lifechanging movie that will stay with me all my life" and things like that. I have literally seen that said on one of the worst movies ever.

You can see a film that everyone hates as it is dreadful, but they will get either crew or pay for 10 star reviews and they do not ever get removed.
IMDB just allow it!

Basically if you see lots of 10 star reviews on a film, ignore the rating and go by the reviews.
Lots of 10 star reviews = terrible film
Lots of low reviews - better than the ones with lots of 10 star reviews.

They made you have to type longer reviews now, but that doesn't stop fake accounts and AI reviews!
It just punishes genuine reviews as people just won't bother.

IMDB just do not care about it at all, even though IMDB pro is used by professionals, yet this site allows the most fake reviews ever.

I have complained to IMDB before but they just make rubbish excuses such as "we have checks in place" which they clearly don't.
The only check they will do is IP address. This is stupid as that is easily changed or faked.

Do better. Your site is now unreliable trash which is so sad as it was such a great site.

20 April 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

IMDB-Quant SAMMERS

(IMDB-Quant) stay away from this people, 100% scammers, just listen stay away or try and withdraw your money, then you will learn the truth. Just stay away

30 March 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unreliable reviews

Don't listen to unreliable reviews which are stopping people going to see films which are killing our local cinemas. Go see it yourself and make your own mind up!!!

29 March 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Navigation is now impossible...

Recent revisions to the website make it almost impossible to navigate to the information required. Not willing to spend the time to work through page after page to then not find what I'm looking for. Who redesigned the new format? They should be fired!

28 March 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Very good

Very good, the oldest and the best movie site database and reviews, better than rotten tomatoes, metacritic, etc.

24 March 2025
Unprompted review

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