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/r/MovieCritic. A subreddit for movie reviews and discussions Founded 2009 · 978.8K members

983.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 73.1K upvotes, which works out to 74 per 1,000 members.

74peak upvotes per 1,000 members
983.3Kmembers
73.1Kbest post
15.1Kmost comments
889posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

55% 21% 8%
Image 55% Text 21% Gallery 8% Question 6% Video 6% Link 3%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Christoph Waltz appreciation post.

↑ 73.1K 💬 1.2K image 2024

An actor you had no expectations for but who turned out to be great.

↑ 52.6K 💬 1.9K image 2025

Best devil in a movie? I’ll start:

↑ 51.7K 💬 4.1K video 2024

Which movies fit this?

↑ 46K 💬 3.4K image 2024

What is the most depressing scene ever?

↑ 45.8K 💬 9.9K image 2025

Actors you just cannot take seriously no matter how hard you try

↑ 45.2K 💬 3.6K image 2025

Which movie is that for you?

↑ 41.7K 💬 15.1K image 2025

The resemblance is wild

↑ 37.4K 💬 247 image 2026

Who is an actor or actress that according to others is a genuinely nice human being?

↑ 37K 💬 5.5K image 2024

Which movie is this for you?

↑ 36.4K 💬 5.3K image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/moviecritic, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/moviecritic?
r/moviecritic ("/r/MovieCritic") describes itself this way: A subreddit for movie reviews and discussions. It was founded in 2009 and has 978.8K members.
How many members does r/moviecritic have?
r/moviecritic has about 983.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 889 of its posts; the biggest reached 73.1K upvotes, which is 74 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/moviecritic?
"Christoph Waltz appreciation post." reached 73.1K upvotes and 1.2K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/moviecritic.
What subreddits are similar to r/moviecritic?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/ChicagoSuburbs.
What kind of posts do best on r/moviecritic?
Of the posts we hold, 55% are image posts and 21% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/moviecritic?
Across 889 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 19:00 UTC (16.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 19:00 UTC (15.3K avg upvotes), Sunday at 16:00 UTC (14.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/moviecritic?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/moviecritic has 27.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 399 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/moviecritic, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.