A new way to rate films and TV
For as long as we've rated films, we've flattened them into a single number. Five stars. 8.4. 92%. It's a strange habit when you actually stop and look at it — taking something as layered as a film and squeezing it down to one figure that hides everything interesting about it.
For a long time I kept waiting for someone to fix this. At some point I realized nobody was coming — and that if I wanted a better way to rate films to exist, I was going to have to build it myself. That's Quartile.
Five categories, no hiding
Quartile rates every film across five categories — Plot, Acting, Cinematography, Novelty, and Ending — each on a 1–4 scale: 1 = Well Below Average, 2 = Below Average, 3 = Above Average, 4 = Well Above Average. There's deliberately no neutral middle. Every category is a real opinion, not a safe shrug. The five combine into a single Q score out of 10, so you still get a number at a glance — but underneath it, you can finally see the shape of a film. What it nailed. Where it fell short. Why it works.
Two films can score the same Q and be nothing alike, and Quartile shows you the difference before you press play.
Taste is a map
I've always believed you can tell an enormous amount about a person from their taste. Show me someone's music library and a map of who they are starts coloring itself in. Films work exactly the same way — except a pile of star ratings is a blurry map. Five categories make it sharp: not just what you love, but what you love about it. Are you drawn to novelty over polish? Do endings matter to you more than anything else? That's the interesting stuff, and one number can't hold any of it.
Films and TV
A great show is not a long film, so we don't rate it like one. Quartile rates television by season — a series can find its footing, peak, and stumble, and one number for the whole run tells you none of that. Films and shows live side by side, judged by the same five honest categories.
More than a rating
The score is only the start. Every film you rate is kept and organized automatically, you can build ranked playlists across films and shows, and you can follow friends to learn the shape of what they love — not just their star counts.
If a single number has ever felt like it was hiding the good part, this is the alternative. See how it works, or just rate your first film →.