Datadory notebook
Movie Critic Scores Dataset Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage
Datadory delivers movie critic scores dataset data covering comprehensive field definitions, entity mappings, and historical time series — structured for direct analytics and delivered on demand.
1,744 datasets. Pick your catch.
What counts as a critic score, and which datasets actually carry one?
Only three of the 14 primary datasets Datadory catalogs for this industry surface critic-authored numbers, and each reaches you by a different mechanism: parsing server-rendered HTML, reading an embedded JSON payload, or calling a REST API. The table below lines them up against the audience-rating corpora they are most often confused with.
Which sources give you critic scores, and how do they compare?
Datadory quality scores put OMDb at 9, Rotten Tomatoes at 8 and Metacritic at 7 among these five - the audience-rating corpora score higher on quality (MovieLens and IMDb both hit 10) because stable bulk files beat page parsing for reliability.
How do you extract Metacritic Metascores at scale?
Metacritic's movie catalog at metacritic.com/browse/movies/ renders server-side and embeds its data in a Nuxt __NUXT_DATA__ JSON payload on every page load. Each load surfaces about 24 records, and the ranked catalog totals 17,312 movies spread across roughly 722 browse pages - every record carrying title, release date, content rating, genres, the weighted critic Metascore, a user score and critic review counts.
Where to go next
With the acquisition routes mapped, continue through this slice:
Pick up where this leaves off
Every one of these ships with sample rows before you commit to anything.
Metacritic Movie Browse
slug · type · title …+15 more
Rotten Tomatoes Movies & TV Data
OMDb API - The Open Movie Database
Box Office Mojo
rank · release_title · prior_period_rank …+8 more
The Numbers - Movie Financial Data
rank · prev_rank · title …+8 more
BFI Industry Data & Insights
Rank · Film · Distributor
Want rows instead of a pitch? Name the datasets.
API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Get a sampleQuestions worth asking
What is the difference between the Tomatometer and the Metascore?
They are different aggregations from different critic pools. Rotten Tomatoes reports a Tomatometer percentage beside the Popcornmeter audience score and per-review listings from its approved critic pool. Metacritic publishes a weighted critic Metascore beside a user score and review counts across its 17,312 ranked movie records. Treat them as correlated but non-interchangeable signals.
How complete is the Metacritic movie catalog for research?
Datadory counts 17,312 ranked movie records across roughly 722 browse pages, about 24 records per page load, refreshed daily. Each record carries title, release date, content rating, genres, the weighted critic Metascore, a user score and critic review counts. The browse filter spans 2011-2026, while the catalog itself reaches back to 1920s-40s classics.