Site: Metacritic

by Matt on 31 December 2009

metacritic.com A site that gathers together all of the reviews of films/games/music from the media to create an overall (meta) score.

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Pros

This is a great idea and a really well-put-together site with lots of findable content. It throws up a big list of current releases in the left-hand column and plenty of suggestions for further journeys around the site.

It is a very convenient way of getting a large number of reviews of a film you want to see (for example) in one place.

Cons

It’s quite American-centric with most of the publications it takes opinions from coming from that part of the world.

It seems to be pretty good with recent releases but older stuff tends to deliver some strange results (a Fast and Furious sequel getting more than Fear and Loathing?). Whilst it has a user-score for each release, it is the critical score that dominates and we tended to find ourselves agreeing more with wholly user-generated sites like IMDB when looking at less fresh content.

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