A recommendation site for films, TV, and games, that learns your tastes by comparing your ratings with those of like-minded users. It then generates personalized predictions for movies and shows you haven't seen, or games you haven't played.

No other website produces recommendations as accurate as ours. With our 100-point rating scale and taste-matching algorithm, we're able to guess what score you might give a film with uncanny accuracy. Some have said that it seems like Criticker is reading their minds!

Just rate some titles! The more you rate, the more accurate your recommendations will be. 50 is a good start, but recommendations really start improving after 100.

Yes. Although you can browse without one, you'll need to sign up to rate titles and get personalized recommendations.

Based on the ratings you have in common, we calculate your Taste Compatibility Index (TCI) with other users and use that to generate predictions. If the people with tastes most similar to yours loved a film, chances are you'll enjoy it too.

Absolutely! We show all of the calculations behind our recommendations, so you can see exactly which users contributed to the prediction and the math behind how we arrived at your Probable Score.

Everybody rates things in a different way, especially when provided a 100-point scale. Criticker normalizes ratings by looking at their percentile in your overall list of ratings. So if a '65' is the lowest rating you've ever given, Criticker treats it as a '0'Percentile and assigns it the color red.

Yes, you can! You can define custom colors and even quips, using a utility available from either your Profile or Ratings page.

The PSI is our Probable Score Index. This is Criticker's prediction of what we think you'll rate a particular title, based on the ratings of your most compatible users.

Yes. Criticker has built-in collections for both Watchlists and Ignored titles (which you can use to tell us to stop recommending a particular title).

Yes, you can optionally specify the date you watched a film, separate from the date you're rating it. Then, you can view your personal journal to see the films you watched in particular months or years.

Yes. We call them Collections, and you can create as many as you wish. Collections can be private, public, or even collaborative -- which allows the community to contribute. This is a great option if you'd like to discover more films about a particular topic!

No, we don't have a downvote option, because we want to keep the experience of using Criticker a positive one. If you find a review offensive or otherwise inappropriate, please use the 'Report' link to bring it to our attention. If you simply dislike it, you can mark the user who wrote it as 'ignored' so that you won't see their reviews in the future.

Yes, at Criticker we call friends 'Kumpels' (which is German for 'buddy'). You can add as many kumpels as you like, and then keep up-to-date on what they've been watching.

Yes, we have a community policy which all users of Criticker must adhere to, that prohibits offensive or hateful language on the site. This includes (but is not limited to) racism, homophobia, misogyny, and personal attacks toward another user.

We provide a simple utility to report a review which you've found troubling or offensive, as well as a way to ignore individual users. After a review is reported, our moderation team will make a decision. If they decide to delete the review, the offending user will be notified and receive a warning. Multiple offenses may result in a ban.

Report these, too! We won't delete them, but may choose to hide them behind a spoiler tag.

Not yet, but the website is mobile-friendly and works well on phones and tablets. We plan on introducing a proper app in the future.

We currently support imports from IMDB and Letterboxd. You can also upload ratings from any CSV file which follows our formatting.

You can suggest corrections directly on the title's page. Our moderators review and apply updates regularly.

Please head over to our list of open bugs, and make sure someone else hasn't already reported it. If not, you'll be able to use the Bug Reporting form to let us know about it. We try to fix bugs as quickly as we can, but please be aware that it can take some time.

Criticker was launched in 2005, with just a handful of films and two total users.

Criticker is developed and maintained by a team of just two people. We are completely bootstrapped, with no corporate funding or investment, depending entirely upon ad revenue and sponsor signups.

Great question! Really appreciate you asking that! Without our Criticker Sponsors, we'd have to shut down, so this is the best way to support the site. For a monthly contribution, you get an ads-free version of Criticker, full daily PSI and TCI updates, and access to a whole bunch of great features. If you've enjoyed the site, please consider helping out today!