MASTERCRITIC

Your personal film critic

Know if you'll love it before you watch

Critics and audiences disagree all the time. MasterCritic learns whose taste is yours, then predicts your score for every film you haven't seen, and keeps score on itself.

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Critics vs audiences

They disagree on 24% of films

Across 1,055 well-known films, critics (Metacritic) and audiences (IMDb) land 1.5 points or more apart on 24% of them. So whose taste is yours? That's the first thing we figure out.

Critics loved, audiences didn't

Touch of Evil 1958

Critics 99 · IMDb 7.9

Breathless 1960

Critics 96 · IMDb 7.6

One Battle After Another 2025

Critics 95 · IMDb 7.6

Vertigo 1958

Critics 100 · IMDb 8.2

The Night of the Hunter 1955

Critics 97 · IMDb 7.9

A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

Critics 97 · IMDb 7.9

Audiences loved, critics didn't

8MM 1999

Critics 21 · IMDb 6.6

Bio-Dome 1996

Critics 1 · IMDb 4.5

The Great Outdoors 1988

Critics 24 · IMDb 6.6

The Majestic 2001

Critics 27 · IMDb 6.9

The 51st State 2001

Critics 23 · IMDb 6.3

Pandorum 2009

Critics 28 · IMDb 6.7

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Your score, before you watch

Look up any film for the rating we think you'll give it. Rate it after and see whether we called it: bullseye, close, or miss.

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Movie night, solved

Start a crew with family or friends and get three picks everyone on the couch will enjoy, on the services you have.

Not a black box

"You gave Heat a 9 and Collateral an 8. Michael Mann's films tend to land well with you."

Every prediction tells you why, using films you've actually rated.

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