metacritic
The Internet is a great place to check out what people think of music, movies, books, DVDs, videogames, restaurants, hotels, etc.
The best place I've found to do this kind of work is metacritic. They take real reviews, apply a numerical value to them, and then aggregate them into a single score that they call a metascore. They also show a short summary of the reviews sorted by the metascores.
It's brilliant. You want to see the worst review. Just go read the review with the lowest metascore.
I love it. I just wish they'd cover more than film, music, and videogames.
One thing that would make it better is to let me specify certain reviewers, and mix up my own scores. For instance, I usually agree the most with the WSJ reviewers, Variety and christian science monitor, so refactoring that I'd know that "Saved" and "Eternal Sunshine" would be good picks, while "Fahrenheit 9/11" would be a pass.
Posted by: Derek | June 26, 2004 at 06:56 PM
Since you like Metacritic, you might check out Qritic.com, which, like Metacritic, aggregates movie ratings into composite scores. However, Qritic adds the useful element of weighting each rating that goes into the score by the similarity of the rater to your ratings of several movies. The result is a personalized list of movies that you may like.
Posted by: Larry Baum | January 07, 2006 at 12:49 AM