Emotionally manipulative films

I rate the films I watch based on how much they make me feel: how much they make me laugh, how much they make me cry, how much they make me scared, etc. Sometimes there are films where I can appreciate great productions, acting, etc. but if they don't make me feel anything, I rate them low, because the point of all art is to make you feel, isn't it?

Well, I don't usually cry much at the cinema, but we're only in mid-February and I've already cried a few times with some new films, and according to my rating criteria, I should rate them high, but I started to think about a couple of those films I watched (A Monster Calls & A Dog's Purprose), and it was obvious they were going to cause that effect, I mean, you don't have to be a great film-maker to induce tears with movie that centers around universal fears as the loss of a mother or a dog.

So, even if those films got their purpose and made me tear a little during the whole movie, now that I think about it, it was something that was happenning no mather the quality of the film, and I'm not sure that's really deserving of a high rating. As an example, with A Dog's Purprose, even if it made me feel a lot, now that I think about it, the whole movie is the dog living a life and then dying over and over again. So now I'm actually reconsidering about how my rating system should actually work, and I'm not really sure about how should I keep it from now on.