Site of the Day for Thursday, August 9, 2001
Metacritic
Is your mind already gearing up for the weekend? Planning to take in a
movie? The List has a little site for you.
Instead of tracking down what a number of reviewers have written about a
particular movie, stroll over to Metacritic, where the work has been done
for you.
"Although at the time [1999] the web offered a wealth of reviews and other
movie information, there was no easy way to track down all of the various
pages without spending a lot of time and effort searching. Thus, Metacritic
was born.
We envisioned Metacritic.com as a place where movie fans like us could
easily find the most important reviews for each new movie at a glance.
Thus, in addition to quotes from reviews from major critics on each movie
page on our site, you will find links to each of the full reviews. We also
wanted to design a system for comparing reviews between critics and between
movies. To accomplish this goal, we developed our Metascore formula. Each
movie is assigned a Metascore, which is a weighted average of each of the
individual reviews for that film. This number, on a 0-100 scale, lets you
know at a glance how each movie is reviewed. " - from the website
This is how really good ideas blossom on the web. Two minutes on this site
will have you heaving a sigh of relief that finally all the critical
reviews of a specific movie are lined up ready to peruse, with a numerical
rating to indicate the general tenor of the reviews.
In addition, the site has added games, video/DVD and music to its areas of
coverage. Metacritic is well worth a permanent bookmark in your list of
favorites.
http://www.metacritic.com/
A.M. Holm
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