Rotten Tomatoes is strangers.
Letterboxd is lonely.
Netflix’s algorithm hates you.

Buck The Critics is for highly intelligent and charismatic film fans. Fans who know what they like, and don’t follow no crowd!

Let’s take a fully comprehensive Film & TV reference app, let’s add the ability to form friend groups, let’s let those groups build a shared reviews database of the absolute best (and worst) things they’ve ever seen!

Buck The Critics digitises the only recommendation engine that actually matters: The opinions of your goofball friends.

Here is how we save you from 2 hours of mediocrity, 7 nights a week:

🦌 THE TRUST ENGINE (Patent Pending) Rotten Tomatoes is full of highly politicised strangers. Why do you care what they think? We use our proprietary 'Buckomatic Nebulizer' to calculate a unique Trust Score between you and your friends.

- If you and your mate rate movies the same way, their opinion carries weight.
- If they think Sharknado is a masterpiece, the app learns to ignore them. We give you a predicted score based on the people you actually respect. It’s a mathematical filter for quality control.

🗣️ RAILLERY & BANTER (The Social Feed)
Watching movies alone is fine, but telling your friends why they are wrong is better. We’ve built a social feed designed for "healthy debate" (read: roasting).

* The Feed: See every review, status update, and hot take from your circle in one place.
* Threads: Did your friend just rate The Godfather a 4/10? Call them out. Start a thread. Publicly shame them.

🤖 BUCK AI: THE ULTIMATE COMPANION
We didn't just slap a chat-bot in here. We gave you one-click access to the most important questions in cinema history.

- Fighting Prowess: Can Maggie Smith take you in a fight? Our AI analyzes the data and gives you the odds.
- Eggs & Gaffes: Instantly reveal the hidden details and continuity errors so you can point them out and look smart.
- Bucks Take: Confused by the ending? Let Buck summarize the themes so you don't have to read a video essay.

🏆 THE DIRECTOR'S JOURNEY
Turn your movie-watching habits into a completionist sport. We track your progress through the filmographies of legendary directors and showrunners.

- Start as a Curious Fawn (20% watched).
- Grind your way up to Celestial Buck (100% completion). Finally, a way to prove you’ve watched more Scorsese than your friends.

THE EXTRAS
- Bucks Choice: Sometimes you just want to be told what to do. Hit the button, and we’ll pick a high-trust movie that is currently streaming on your specific services. Zero effort required.
- Status Updates: Broadcasting that you are "Currently Watching" high-art cinema is a great way to look cultured.
- The Reality Check: We show you exactly how old actors were when they filmed their iconic roles. Prepare to feel unaccomplished when you see how young Bruce Willis was in Die Hard.

Download Buck The Critics. Or don't, and keep letting an algorithm meant to sell you subscriptions decide your evening. Your call, Champ 👍

MonkeyDoDev

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