Real people's movie opinions, not just the critics. Here's how it works.
Every film gets an audience score: the percentage of everyday viewers who liked it. No critics, no industry insiders.
Older films keep Google's archived "% liked" score. Newer films use TMDB user ratings, since Google removed its movie audience votes in 2026.
A ThumbScore of 92% means 92 out of 100 viewers enjoyed the film. Higher is better.
We pair every ThumbScore with a Critics Score (Rotten Tomatoes + Metacritic average) so you can see where they agree — and disagree.
ThumbScore is a movie rating aggregator built around one simple idea: what do everyday people actually think about a movie?
Every film carries an audience score: the percentage of regular viewers who liked it. No professional critics, no industry insiders, no verified-ticket requirement. For films scored before mid-2026, that number is Google's "% liked" audience rating. Google removed that feature in 2026, so we archived all 11,290 scores rather than let them disappear. Read what happened.
For new releases and films Google never scored, the audience number comes from TMDB user ratings, normalized to the same 0-100 scale. A ThumbScore of 92% means 92 out of every 100 viewers enjoyed the film.
We pair every ThumbScore with a Critics Score so you can instantly see where audiences and professionals agree, and more interestingly, where they don't.
The audience score: the percentage of everyday viewers who liked a movie, from the broadest possible audience. For older films this is Google's archived "% liked" score (a feature Google removed in 2026); for newer films it is the TMDB user rating. No account, no review, and no ticket required.
The average of the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer and the Metacritic score (normalized to the same 0-100 scale). By combining two major critic aggregators, the Critics Score gives a balanced view of professional opinion rather than relying on a single source.
Some movies score 95% with audiences but only 40% with critics. Others are critical darlings that everyday viewers find boring. The gap between ThumbScore and Critics Score reveals the movies where professional taste and popular opinion diverge — and that gap is often the most interesting thing about a film's reception.
For years the ThumbScore came from Google's "% liked this film" audience votes, where anyone could rate a movie from search without an account or a written review. Google removed that feature in 2026. We archived all 11,290 scores so they live on here. Read the full story of what happened.
For new releases and films Google never scored, the audience score comes from TMDB user ratings, contributed by The Movie Database community and normalized to a 0-100 scale.
Professional critic reviews aggregated by Rotten Tomatoes contribute to the Critics Score. The Tomatometer represents the percentage of approved critics who gave a positive review.
Metacritic's weighted average of professional critic scores is the second component of the Critics Score. Metacritic assigns different weights to different publications, providing a nuanced critical consensus.
Movie metadata — titles, release dates, genres, cast, overviews, and poster images — comes from TMDB's extensive community-maintained database. Watch provider / streaming availability data is sourced from JustWatch via the TMDB API.
ThumbScore is the audience score for a movie: the percentage of everyday viewers who liked it, shown next to professional critics. For most films released before mid-2026 this is Google's "% liked" audience score, a feature Google removed in 2026 and we archived (11,290 films). For newer films and anything Google never scored, the audience number comes from TMDB user ratings. A ThumbScore of 92% means 92 out of 100 regular viewers enjoyed the film.
Rotten Tomatoes scores primarily reflect professional critic reviews (the Tomatometer) or verified ticket holders (the Audience Score). ThumbScore reflects everyday viewers, with no verification barrier, no review to write, and no ticket to prove. Historically this came from Google's thumbs up and thumbs down audience votes; since Google removed that feature in 2026, newer films use TMDB user ratings instead, while the archived Google scores remain on every film that had one. ThumbScore also provides a Critics Score that averages Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic together for easy comparison.
The audience score (ThumbScore) comes from two sources: Google's "% liked" audience votes for films scored before Google removed the feature in 2026 (now a frozen archive of 11,290 films), and TMDB user ratings for newer or previously unscored films. The Critics Score averages Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Movie metadata, posters, and watch provider information come from TMDB (The Movie Database) and JustWatch.
Yes, ThumbScore is completely free to use. You can search, browse, filter, and compare scores for over 11,500+ movies across 54 languages and 12 decades without creating an account or paying anything.
ThumbScore data is updated daily. New releases are pulled from TMDB as they come out and scored with TMDB user ratings, streaming availability is refreshed regularly, and the archived Google audience scores stay frozen as a historical record.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Movie metadata, images, and watch provider data are provided by TMDB. Watch provider data is sourced from JustWatch.
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