I will start with this disclaimer: I don’t think anyone else should (but you could) use my system for ranking movies. I like my system, but I recognize that it has some limitations. Every ranking system has some flaws, but I thought I would explain how my system works and how I got there.

There are 3 categories that I grade each movie on, each category with a maximum of 10 points:

Gut Feeling: Did the movie wow me as I watched it? Did it make me feel things. Do I spend the drive home talking about the movie, or do I spend it planning the next day?

Rewatchability: How likely am I to rewatch it, and how urgently do I want to watch it again. If I am planning on watching it a second time in theaters, it will probably score a 10. Sometimes a movie can be great, but it can be really bleak or hard to watch (looking at you Warfare) so it doesn’t score great on Rewatchability.

Recommendable: How likely am I to recommend this. There are two considerations. I think about the people in my life and think about how likely to recommend the movie to them. Phrased another way, do I have people in my life to recommend this movie to? What I have found creeping in to this category is “Do I think this movie is over or underrated”. An example would be Kpop Demon hunters. I saw that movie before it blew up and became the most popular movie of 2025. I gave it a very high recommend score because I thought the movie was better that the attention it had received up to that point. If I saw the movie today, I would probably drop this score a little bit. I am ok with the way I score movies to change over time. I think it is unrealistic for me to stay the same year after year. I want these scores to reflect how I felt about the movie compared to other movies that year, the scores do not compare across years well.

Here roughly what tiers the scores fall into

0-10:Bad

10-15: Had some real flaws, but probably wasn’t a terrible time.

15-25: I had a fun time, with the higher scores being genuinely good movies.

25-30: A really special movie that I will rave about. I’m not super stingy with my ratings, but I don’t give out a lot of scores of 27 and up. I haven’t given a 30 yet (I started in 2019.)

How did I arrive at these types of rankings? I watch enough movies that a star system gets really weird. Mickey 17 and Minecraft get the same score? They do on my Letterboxd. 1 to 10 has similar issues. I wanted different categories, so that even if drastically different movies got the same score, there were still ways I could differentiate them. It is important to note that my feelings change over time as well. Each year I come back and review and make a top 20 movie list. I don’t always take the movies with the top scores, but it is a place to start, and I never go back and change the score.

Here are the rankings as they stand now.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1toLg9EsFRbShqlcm8A0J26LafFJhP89pv9DoXnP_jjE/edit?usp=sharing

Please share any interesting ways you have to track or rank movies or other content you consume in the comments!