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Movies are taste-based and mood-based. Find an individual reviewer you agree with and follow them.
As for platforms? Rotten Tomatoes is like a probability scanner for whether or not I will enjoy a movie, not how much I enjoy it. After that? Nothing really gets close.
Exactly! You can also find more than one to follow, and take note of which never match your tastes. For me, I will avoid any movie recommended by PBS's Patrick Stoner until/unless someone I trust tells me otherwise. I used to have two critics I particularly followed. One had the same taste in foreign film as I, and the other was ready to enjoy a stupid Hollywood rollick. Alas, I've lost track of the former and the latter is now at Slate doing a variety of stuff. The result is I pretty much stopped going to the theater.