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Friday, January 30th, 2026

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Complaint about reviews taking days to post

The majority of my reviews get posted within minutes. But some of them take days. I posted a review for Iron Lung (title/tt27564844) yesterday (#260130-050128-355521). At the time, Iron Lung had about 30 reviews. Now it has 94.

It's really frustrating when I see a movie on opening night and post my review as early as possible, and you guys delay it so now it will be lost among a sea of other reviews. Posting it early gives the best chance for views/upvotes. These ridiculous delays are unacceptable.

And please don't give me a generic answer. Just please do better.

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Hello FeastMode277

As mentioned in our Help Articles: Depending on the data type, approved contributions should appear on IMDb within 1 - 7  days. 

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@Fran​ you're response provided zero useful information and completely ignores the horrible experience this is causing for loyal IMDb contributors. Please escalate.

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Can we see the review in question?

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@MovieCat​ Here is my review.

My favorite genre is sci-fi. My second favorite genre is horror. I adore sci-fi horror. I went into this movie knowing nothing about it. And the first five minutes had me intrigued to the max.

Then the next two hours of the movie happen, and I was bored out of my mind. If a movie fiend, a sci-fi junkie, a horror lover is bored to the point of anger, then the movie has failed completely.

I've liked bottle films before. But with such a limited cast and locations, you need to supplement it with other things. It needs a great performance to draw in the viewers, but his performance is solid at best. It needs captivating dialogue, but it's basic and you can't even hear half of it.

It needs story, but nothing happens in this movie. There are like three plot points. It should have been a short film. If it was extended to 90 minutes, it would have still been boring. But this movie is over two hours for seemingly no reason.

I thought about leaving early, but it seemed like the kind of movie where the only cool stuff happens at the end. But no, there is nothing redeeming, nothing to make it worth the time I just wasted. This movie is garbage. Don't watch it. And don't trust these fake positive reviews by accounts that only have one review.

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