In Advanced Filters in a Movies library it is not possible to filter by the Critic Rating or Audience Rating, only the Rating field (the user's personal rating) field can be filtered on.
This means that the only way to create a smart playlist or collection containing movies with high or low ratings is to sort by the Critic Rating / Audience Rating (these are available in the sort options) in descending or ascending order and use the “Limit To” option to limit it to the top so many results.
This doesn’t necessarily give correct results, particularly if you actually want to filter on movies with low ratings, as movies without a critic rating or audience rating as applicable would also appear at the top of the list.
Allowing the Critic Rating and Audience Rating to be used in filters, with the same (“is”, “is not”, “is greater than”, “is less than”) options as with Rating, would be a lot better.
Not only do I think adding critic rating and audience rating would be a huge improvement, “Rating” filter needs to be overhauled so you can type in a number and do away with the 5 stars.
Has any staff member ever talked on this request? Filtering on these ratings seems like one of the most logic and useful things you’d want to filter on. I see posts on Reddit all the time referring to this. The ratings are there. One would assume adding a filter wouldn’t be that complex, or am I missing something?
+1 on this request. I would like to be able to use the Rotten Tomatoes critic and audience ratings in some of my smart collections. For example, “25 highest rated movies of the 2000s”. Right now we can limit to 25, and choose movies from the 2000s, but cannot also filter on rating.
Several family members have requested this as well since my library is, shall we say, eclectic I could create smart collections for them using ratings to filter out the “B” zombie flicks and such.
I was able to create my Smart Collection(s) described in my post above. It seems you can use audience and critic ratings to sort the collection. I chose Release Date as the filter, ordered descending on Audience Rating, and limited to 100. This gave me what I was looking for.
Interesting, though, that filter fields and sort fields are not the same.
I have used that workaround, and it works well if you use that collection as a custom row in Home or the Recommended tab in a library.
It’s not so good when viewed as a collection in a library, as there is a bug where the item count under the collection thumbnail in the library view doesn’t take the “Limit to” option into account and shows the full count of all the movies in that library. For example in one of my libraries a smart connection like this limited to 20 items shows “1295 items” under the poster instead of “20 items”.
Definitely something that should have been implemented when advanced filtering got introduced.
Please add this ASAP. Thank you in advance.
At the moment, I need to add all “modern” (year 2000++) movies with a minimum critics rating of 7.0 to a collection manually one by one once I add them to my library. I don’t have a way to remove them once their critics rating drops below that mark (which happens from time to time). So, a smart collection would do that for me, but no filter is available to do that. What a shame.
I could create smart collections for them using ratings to filter out the “B” zombie flicks and such.