- “Your Reviews” are now ordered by Date and reviews on each Title sub page are ordered by Helpfulness.We will continue to update functionality in the new year, starting by bringing back the ability to sort reviews from newest to oldest/oldest to newest. We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve the overall experience.
- We have removed the Index view.
- We updated the way that reviews with spoilers are displayed.
Karen
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Col Needham, Official Rep
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To view an individual review, simply click the review title. To copy the URL of a review, click on the "Copy link" label under the review. For example from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/reviews?sort=reviewVolume&dir=desc&ratingFilter=0 (see red highlighting)

which will lead you to or will copy -> https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4063416/
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I'm trying to make copies of my reviews in case they eventually go away here
so I'm going through the "load more" but it is VERY slow
by Michael Elliott
Joined on December 12, 2017
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/people/michael_elliott_9fdrv5i88v7ua
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Save them in Notepad before you add them here ?
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Col Needham, Official Rep
Jan 10 2018
•Fix “Load more” functionality on Internet Explorer [DONE]
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/update-to-user-reviews?topic-reply-list[settings][filter_by]...
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There is more chat about “Load more” in this thread (Search for it?)
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a few others with many Reviews to save (?)
bob the moo
IMDb member since Feb 2001
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1002035/
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1002035/reviews - 8,844 Reviews
bob the moo
Joined on December 21, 2012
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/people/bobthemoo
claudio_carvalho
IMDb member since June 2003
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2488512/
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2488512/reviews - 8,527 Reviews
Horst_In_Translation
IMDb member since September 2004
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur3914439/
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur3914439/reviews - 8,518 Reviews
SnoopyStyle
IMDb member since December 2003
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur2898520/
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2898520/reviews - 9,991 Reviews
TheLittleSongbird
IMDb member since January 2009
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur20552756/
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur20552756/reviews - 14,010 Reviews
bkoganbing
IMDb member since June 2003
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2483625/
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2483625/reviews - 14,663 Reviews
Michael_Elliott
IMDb member since November 2006
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https://www.imdb.com/user/ur13134536/reviews - 16,175 Reviews
MartinHafer
IMDb member since June 2003
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https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2467618/reviews - 21,970 Reviews
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There is chat in here about replacing "Load More" with Page numbers
That would make it easier to return another day to continue saving your reviews
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/discussion-on-posting-ideas
You want to start a new "Change [Load More] to Page Numbers" topic ?
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the redesign had in mind someone who might have written a few hundred reviews at the most.
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I am having the same issues.
Those of us who have written several thousands of reviews, the load more function is useless.
? ?
Prismark10
IMDb member since January 2005
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Karen, Employee
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Anyways, if IMDb does do this, please, at least, inform the member via email of the edits. The censorship doesn't even bother me so much as the word change makes my statement in the review unclear and grammatically incorrect. So, if IMDb does do this, please also write better.
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I've also had one of my reviews amended by IMDb.
I don't mind but it does seem strange what they object to.
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just adding this here -- better place ? move it ...
This review should be posted as a message on GS ??
tovergirl
IMDb member since August 28 2018
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https://www.imdb.com/user/ur91744000/reviews
Stay Here (2018– )
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8773338/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8773338/reference
10/10
28 August 2018
Does anyone from the producers gives any feedback on all this reviews?
There are many points on the reviews, that I am also wondering,
that I will like to know.
https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4308657/
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I once attended a film preview in Hollywood Boulevard for a movie that was released some weeks later.
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On one hand, I realize IMDB staff do not have all day to sit and proofread everything that comes in, nor verify if the review is worth posting. On the other hand: where is the criterion for posting? Doesn't it include parameters? I can't seem to find that information anymore. If it exists, it doesn't seem to make any difference.
I also saw what I can only call "haters" reviews for "Crazy Rich Asians" -- the reviews were racist, vile and hateful. Am I suppose to report each one?
IMDB used to be a fun place to come to read user reviews (with Roger Ebert gone, there really are only a few "pro" critics that I read, since the "pro" ones that IMDB offers seem to mainly be people who give their blogs names and somehow end up getting their reviews listed under Critics' Reviews). But now, I am seeing so many awful, rambling, misspelled, grammatically incorrect messes that all the joy of reading reviews is gone. I'm better off just posting reviews on my own website.
Does anybody monitor the quality of reviews on IMDB? And if not, why not? Because it would take too much time?
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The racist reviews are another matter, and I'm sure that's just an issue of IMDb not being able to monitor everything at all times. I'm sure they find it important to delete that stuff; heck, they got rid of the message boards largely because of such posts.
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"It's great movie for ever and I love it from beginning to end"
"This film unforgettable! This film i can watched indefinitely!"
"One of my favorite movies since i was a teenager, amazing performance & story."
I am sorry but these are not reviews, these are reactions, plain reactions, they give absolutely no specific insight about the film, no analysis, no criticism. Reviewing is a passion for many of us but I'm not sure I would have started this had I read these on IMDb back then in the 2000s.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about the length, Pauline Kael made many reviews that didn't take more than 100 words but she went straight to the point and expressed a sharp and well-expressed opinion.
Maybe we should get back to the old system? Because at this track, anyone can make it to the Top Reviewer if it all it takes is "one enthusiastic sentence".
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Col Needham, Official Rep
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1. Revert back to a longer minimum length for reviews, like IMDb used to have, so that they're actually reviews and not reactions as short as a sentence or less. I think anything less than a decent paragraph is worthless clutter.
2. Reintroduce an index, or at least additional sorting options such as by first letters of titles and by years, for user review pages. It's impractical now to look through reviews by users who have written hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of reviews.
Say a movie has 5,600+ and counting reviews such as "The Last Jedi." if a reviewer isn't one of the most prolific of prolific reviewers (as in will appear on first page, maybe two, of that search option), then there's little chance I'll bother looking further for it. There's absolutely no chance I'd try to search for it on the user's review page if they have hundreds or more reviews and if the title doesn't begin with a letter at the very beginning (actually, a number, since they appear first) or end of the alphabet.
Both of these problems kind of go hand in hand, as it's about trying to get past all of the rubbish postings to read thoughtful reviews, which are proportionally declining. IMDb is surely receiving more "reviews," but I'm reading less of them because of these problems. I also wonder with an increase in such poorly-written "reviews" whether it's only a matter of time before their clutter becomes as much of a policing problem as the message boards were, resulting in the removal of the function entirely.
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1500 Minimum Characters,
Or 250 Words.
Use spell check filter auto rejection software.
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I dont know how to elaborate more than this. If you are 35 and younger, you will understand after seeing this movie.
Well, if that's a review (apparently 472 users found it useful) then I'm wondering what I've been doing these last years, philosophical essays? I don't mean to sound pompous but these one-sentence (or two) reviews really undermine the efforts of us who've tried to be constructive and insightful... not to satisfy our egos but out of respect for IMDb and the users who'll check reviews before watching a film.
Seriously, it's not even the length, some reviews say nothing substantial about the film, they're just reactions. Such reviews can be copy-pasted for 100 movies in one day, users can be in the Top Reviewer section in less than a week, but for what contributions?
Please, let's get back to the old rules.
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I'm also pretty sure that IMDb already doesn't check every review before it's posted. Surely nobody approved this dandy of an IMDb review:
"Jævla drittfilm. Hadde heldigvis ei flaske aquavit til å hjelpemeg å se ferdig"
One result of this is that I can write a review nearing 1,000 words, and, if it's for a mainstream movie currently in theatres, it may take a couple days for it to be approved, by which time it'll be buried under a multitude of reactions of only a couple sentences or fewer each. And it'll likely never be read again by another.
Edit: The spell check filter mentioned by CliffJ above is a good idea, too, which I believe IMDb used to employ. I remember I used quite a few French words in a review long ago (for a French film, of course), and it was rejected for it, which I was fine with.
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IMDbmember :
It looks like that's basically what BatmanFunReviews2018 has done
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BatmanFunReviews2018
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Kundali Bhagya (2017- )
Country: India
Language: Hindi
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7147670/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7147670/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7147670/reviews
https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4456716/
Chutya mandli
heenachoudhary-6906213 - November 13 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Bhart Ka nhi puri duniya ka sabse boring sabse ghatiya serial he ye
heenachoudhary-69062
IMDb member since November 13 2018
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At least I save every review I write just in case... and I guess there's still the possibility to sort reviews by "prolific reviewers" but even that parameter won't help much when users will become prolific by copy-pasting one-sentence reactions as reviews.
Col Needham, Official Rep
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It's been a while since I visited this thread, so I apologize in advance for bringing up a topic that may have already been dealt with. I have two questions.
Is the topic of indexing for individual user reviews a dead issue? Being able to see a complete list of titles (and only the titles) one submits a review for was very valuable to me.
Secondly, here are both the 'descending' and 'ascending' alphabetical listing of titles I've reviewed, and one can see that neither one is accurately stated.
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2707735/reviews?sort=alphabeticalTitle&dir=desc&ratingFilter=0
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2707735/reviews?sort=alphabeticalTitle&dir=asc&ratingFilter=0
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I sorted the reviews by date so we can have for each film the first written reviews, it speaks for itself (another discovery is that the one that's been on IMDb for a year has less than 1000 reviews, the one that's been here for less than two months has almost 1500)

I think it all comes down to the quantity vs. quality equation. I'm not even blaming those who wrote these one-sentence reactions, since it's allowed... and in one week you have hundreds of users who rated your "review" useful... bu when you check the accounts behind these reactions, it's like some users only registered for the sake of reviewing that particular film, they're not regulars.
I'm not worried right now, I'm worried for the next two years. All regular reviewers will become invisible and sorting reviews by "author prolificness" will be useless and there'll come a point where IMDb will realize the reviews don't serve any purpose after all and will remove them, I can see that coming and I just wish it doesn't happen. Some reviews are here from 1999, almost 20 years!
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The one line reviews makes a mockery of the system. I've been writing reasonably in-depth reviews for the past 13 years and am disgusted by the decision to allow short comments that give little insight. I'm glad that I saw fit to save all my reviews as text files so that if IMDb ditches reviews altogether, I have a record of my work.It won't help you, but I sympathize (and agree).
Col Needham, Official Rep
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