Metacritic - metacritic.com
Metacritic is a website that provides aggregate scores for movies, TV shows, music albums, games, and other multimedia works.
Official Website: metacritic.com
Metacritic was founded in 1999 and is a specialized website that collects and aggregates reviews from various media. It compiles scores from professional critics for movies, TV shows, music albums, games, and other media works to calculate an overall score, helping users gain a more comprehensive understanding of the quality of the work.
Scoring System
Metacritic's scoring system is based on a percentage scale, standardizing scores from different sources to generate an overall score. The score ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 indicates the worst and 100 indicates the best. Scores are also categorized into four levels: positive (75-100), mixed or average (50-74), negative (25-49), and very poor (0-24).
Review Sources
Metacritic collects reviews from major mainstream media and well-known review websites, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, IGN, GameSpot, and others. These review sources are rigorously selected to ensure the authority and reliability of the scores.
User Interface
Metacritic's user interface is clean and straightforward, allowing users to easily find media works of interest and view their overall scores, review summaries, and detailed reviews. The site also offers search functionality and category browsing to help users quickly find the information they need.
Other Features
In addition to scoring and review aggregation, Metacritic provides many other features, such as user ratings, review discussion forums, and lists of newly released works. Users can share their opinions in the review discussion forums, interact with other users, and exchange views.