- What is CinePixo?
- CinePixo is an independent, English-language site for film criticism. Members publish long-form, signed reviews of individual films, and each review carries a rating and a one-line verdict. Alongside the writing there is a film library with full credits and a directory of the critics the community follows.
- How does the CinePixo rating scale work?
- Reviews are scored from 0 to 10 in half-point steps and displayed on a five-star scale, so 9.5 out of 10 is shown as four and three-quarter stars. Half-points exist because the distance between a 7 and an 8 is where most disagreement actually lives.
- What is a fandom score?
- The fandom score for a film is the plain average of every published review's rating for it — no weighting, no secret formula. It is shown together with the distribution, because an average of four stars that splits the room is a different film from one that doesn't.
- How is the top-rated ranking calculated?
- Films are ranked by average rating weighted by review count, using avg × n/(n+2). The weighting means a single enthusiastic review cannot outrank a film that many writers have argued for.
- What are themes and motifs here?
- A theme is what a film is about — a class divide, the cost of ambition. A motif is what recurs on screen — stairs, rising water, a rehearsal room. Both are editorial: the axis, its definition and the sentence explaining how it shows up in a particular film are written by members of this site, and a film joins an axis only with that sentence attached. Imported keyword lists are shown separately and labelled as such.
- What is Off Camera, and how is it different from a review?
- Off Camera is the CinePixo blog: film writing that is not a review. A review argues about one film and carries a score; a blog post covers what a review has no room for — what the people who make films are doing away from the film, an argument the industry is having, how a picture was made, or what to watch next. Posts carry no rating, by design. They are written by the editorial desk rather than by any member.
- How does CinePixo source what it writes about real people?
- Every blog post filed under Away From Set or The Argument lists the sources its factual claims rest on, and the page prints all of them. This is enforced in the database, not left to good intentions: a post in either of those categories cannot be published with an empty source list. The reading of the sources is ours; the underlying facts belong to whoever we cited, and corrections are welcome at the contact address.
- Who can publish a review on CinePixo?
- Any member with an account can publish. Reviews are written in Markdown, signed with the author's name, and are not ordered by an algorithmic feed — the index is chronological and the rankings are stated arithmetic.
- Where does the film data come from?
- From open knowledge bases, through our own import tooling: film facts from Wikidata and synopses from Wikipedia, credited under their licence on each film page. Artwork is hosted on our own origin — freely licensed files with their credit, and film posters shown for identification, which remain © their studios. Reviews and ratings are the work of their authors.
