It depended on the type of movie. If it was an action film or a raunchy comedy, most definitely a movie worth going to. If the reviews were flipped, it was a snooze fest. If they were aligned, it was an all time great.
Disparu block me because I kept saying, “fix your teeth”
Remember the olden days, newspapers subscribed to a movie review service - they had "critic's rating", and "audience rating"?
When a movie scored shit by critics, and super high by audiences, you knew that movie was a must-see banger