Metacritics
Published December 26, 2004
This site is a kind of "guide for the perplexed" for movies, videos, DVDs, music and games.
It employs a mathematical approach to popularity: linking to dozens of reviews in print publications and on websites, it converts the evaluations to numbers ranging from 1 (truly awful) to 100 (sheer genius).
Then it averages the figures (giving more weight to reviews from better-known sources) to yield a "metascore."
"Sideways" tops the current crop of movies with a 92, while current box-office leader "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" comes in at 60.
Game of the Year honors went to "Half-Life 2," with a metascore of 97.
The site is based in Santa Monica, California (though why the physical location of a company or business or website should matter at all anymore I'm not sure).
[via the Washington Post]
- Metacritics
- Published: December 26, 2004
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Interesting site. I wonder when, if ever, we'll see books added to Metacritics. I suppose that would require more of a number or star system for creating an average, which book reviews tend not to have.
At the least, Metacritics looks like a good way to get an overview of what a hoard of critics are saying about it.
Eric Berlin
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