TwoVoices – Reviews From Critics Like You
A movie review app that lets you pick which reviewer demographics you want to hear from and shows whether a film lands differently across genders, ages, and regions before you buy a ticket.
Film fans, especially women and underrepresented audiences, deciding whether to see a big release
- Critic profiles with gender, age band, region, and self-described perspective so you can pick your trusted voices
- Side-by-side sentiment comparison across reviewer groups with the actual quotes
- 'Audiences like me' verdict that summarizes what people similar to you thought
- Spoiler-free summary plus a separate spoiler section you unlock after watching
The Odyssey's near-unanimous praise from mostly male critics and the viral Guardian piece about women being unsure whether to go show a clear gap in the review ecosystem.
The Odyssey's record-breaking 99% Tomatometer score (140 reviews) confirms viral-scale interest in the film/critic gap, and CESifo research and UMD/Waguespack studies document a real gender gap in movie ratings — but no direct evidence of demand for a specifically demographic-filtered review product.Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Rotten Tomatoes Score Officially... ↗Viewer Discretion Advised: How Gender Enters the Picture When Audiences Rate Movies ↗
No direct 'TwoVoices'-style competitor surfaced in search; Rotten Tomatoes has diversified its critic pool (55% women among 600 new critics) but does not expose demographic splits of scores — however, incumbents like RT and Letterboxd could add this filter trivially, leaving the moat thin.Movie-Critic Website Rotten Tomatoes Diversifies its Critics ↗Hollywood Reporter: Rotten Tomatoes Diversity Efforts ↗
Movie-review category is dominated by free, ad-supported products (RT, IMDb) and Letterboxd Pro at ~$19/yr; no evidence of willingness to pay specifically for demographic-filtered views — affiliate/streaming tie-ins are plausible but unproven and thin-margin.The death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure ↗CESifo Working Paper no. 11422 (gender gap in crowd ratings) ↗
Movie criticism is in structural decline per Guardian's 'death of the review' piece, and the current cultural moment around gender gaps could fade — a niche demographic-disaggregation lens risks being absorbed as a standard feature by Rotten Tomatoes within a release cycle.The death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure ↗
Aggregating critic reviews is straightforward, but reliable demographic tagging at scale (especially age, region, race) is hard; self-reported demographic prompts for amateur reviewers or paid demographic inference are workable but add cost, privacy risk, and data sparsity per cohort.CESifo Working Paper no. 11422 (gender gap in crowd ratings) ↗