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That's why I find it important to look at both critic and user reviews. If they agree, they're probably right. If they disagree things get interesting.
If critics liked it, but audiences disliked it, it's probably technically good but boring. If critics disliked it, but audiences liked it, it's probably kinda bad but exciting.
Both are also affected by social media, especially user scores, so if "the Internet" hates/loves something if can be unfairly inflated/deflated.
New, but not brand new, films also usually have a more accurate score. I enjoyed The Godfather, so I would rate it positively, but if I didn't like it I'm probably not rating it at all. I saw it X years ago and unless it was absolutely terrible or I have a vivid memory of disliking it, I'm just going to ignore it.
Or it's something fresh instead of the same junk that critics had seen hundreds of times (literally), whereas most of the public can't be arsed with original but marginal concepts.