Metracritics

Metacritic's mission is to help you make an informed decision about how to spend your money on entertainment.

What began as a simple idea back in the summer of 1999--to both provide access to and summarize the vast amount of entertainment criticism available online--has evolved into one of the Web's best resources for critical information about film, video, music, games, books and television. (Well, of course we think it's one of the best, but you can also see for yourself what others are saying about Metacritic.)

That original idea quickly gave birth to a company, which then (not as quickly) gave birth to a website, Metacritic.com, which officially launched in January, 2001 thanks to the hard work of its three founding members, all former attorneys who were happy to find a more constructive (but less profitable) use of their time. Metacritic.com has continued to evolve since its launch, constantly adding to its ever-growing database of reviews, launching a wireless version of the site, and undergoing redesigns in early 2003 and late 2004. In 2005, Metacritic joined the CNET family of websites after an acquisition by CNET Networks, Inc.