I follow simple rule - don't watch anything under 7/10 on IMDb (with less than 500-1K votes) - to save my time and then I still choose mostly movies I like. Th

I follow simple rule - don't watch anything under 7/10 on IMDb (with less than 500-1K votes) - to save my time and then I still choose mostly movies I like. This obviously doesn't work for Indian movies where users patriotically rate even crap movies way higher and have tons of votes because of size of Indian population, never seen such problem with movies from any other country (consistently I have to say, if I choose Iranian movie with good rating it's almost guaranteed it's not overrated, same can't be said about other countries, maybe Scandinavian movies to some extent are usually not very overrated unlike IN/US/KO production, Japanese have very few votes so it's hit or miss if you rely on lower number of votes). After watching thousands of movies in recent decades I came to conclusion 7/10 it's sweetspot dividing mediocrity from decent movies on IMDb, though it doesn't mean you won't find bad movies rated higher than 7, but it's extremely unlikely to find good movie underrated under 7 from few exemptions I ocassionally try, if the movie looks really interesting.