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The "Cracks" rating is a system for rating movies whereby "Cracks" are negative qualities and "Solids" are positive ones. It's intended to give a more nuanced and thorough appraisal of a movie, with a slight negative skew–this plays off the presupposition that even the best movies always have some flaw. This differs from typical ratings system such as the 5-stars method which gives an overall single grade on a scale. The Cracks system eschews this for highlighting what a movie noticeably did poorly and well.

The layout of the system is as follows....

Number of Cracks (minimum of 1, maximum of 7):Number of Solids (minimum of 0, maximum of 7)

If one found a movie to have 2 negative qualities and 5 positive ones, the score would be "2:5 Cracks", in written form. If said verbally, it would be "Two to Five Cracks".