[rurban]

Indian fake ratings are a big thing, but from my own experience collecting good ratings, I can attest that keeping fakes out if the system is a big effort, and it cannot be done manually. I implemented a complicated but fair statistical system to keep fake ratings out from my site. But I'm only doing the top 3 film festivals, not all the crap. The manual blacklist is still huge.

In the west the biggest offender is A24 btw.

And to be fair to the Indian movies: The top Indian movies are usually better than the best western movies. But we didn't have top Indian movies for almost over a decade now.

[worthless-trash]

> The top Indian movies are usually better than the best western movies.

Is that because they are in your native tongue ? Or is there some kind of rating site.... oh wait ;)

[rurban]

I"m an Austrian film critic, who just watches most good movies.

Since Indian movies rarely make to to western festivals (mostly only Rome), there's not much to compare with. The ones which make it into Cannes are entirely different, and not as the good ones which make it into Rome or dominate the local markets. Berlin has nothing (but Dil Se won there ages ago, still the top Indian movie), Sundance had at least Gangs Of Wasseypur.

[palimpsests]

it seems you left out a few words:

> In my opinion, the top Indian movies are usually better than the best Western movies.

[loeg]

If it wasn't his opinion, he wouldn't say it.