trip9 posted:

I honestly find the pull-quotes that Rotten Tomatoes use to be extremely helpful. Combined with the score I can normally make a pretty accurate guess at whether or not I'd enjoy something. For example with The Neon Demon, which has a 51% on RT, you take a look at the quotes from the negative reviews and they're all stuff like "Pretentious and self-indulgent, it seems tailor-made to appeal to lovers of the obtuse and inscrutable until it takes a left-turn into schlocky, gore-drenched splatter imagery" and I know that I'm most likely going to fall into the "love it" side of "hate it or love it".