Edit - To give some personal context, I was thinking about the thread the other day where Snyder fans claimed that good movies are 4 hours long and then I saw this picture. Throw in the crap like baby yoda knockoffs and expanded universes and it's all so bad.
You are using critics wrong. You find one which you agree with generally, and then trust them/learn their blindspots, not using some god-forsaken performance metrics
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He was also predictable. You knew where you disagreed with him and sometimes he'd give a movie a 1 for x reason which would make it a 5 for me.
Letterboxd is actually somehow useful in this way. Even though they basically made it as a social media platform for reviews, you can find even more critics you agree with and just follow them. I genuinely don't know that many big name critics either, but it was really fairly easy to find people on Letterboxd that share my same idea of a good movie
The nice thing about finding a critic you generally agree with is you'll get recommendations that are up your alley. I've found The Guest, The Clovehitch Killer, The Blackcoat's Daughter and The Kid Detective solely because of Red Letter Media.
I guess rewording, I mean that I try to go in blind to movies unless I hear something specific.
That's a good way of figuring out critics who work though. Thanks!