MCP Metacritic

mcp-metacritic

Metacritic gathers what critics and audiences said about films, television series and video games. Each entry carries the year, the age rating, the genres, and two scores of its own: the Metascore, a weighted average of the professional reviews, and the user score, out of ten, from the people who signed up to rate it. Under each entry sit the reviews themselves, with the publication that ran them and the quoted line.

This server connects a chat client to that catalogue. You can search for a title, read its entry with its scores and its details, browse a catalogue by score, recency or popularity, and read the reviews of one title, filtered by critic or audience and by how favourable they were. It needs no API key and no account.

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Install

One-click install

Claude Code

claude mcp add metacritic -- npx -y mcp-metacritic

Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any client using the standard config format

{

"mcpServers": { "metacritic": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-metacritic"] } } }

Node 24 or later is required, and no environment variable has to be set.

With Docker

{

"mcpServers": { "metacritic": { "command": "docker", "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "ghcr.io/smeet666/mcp-metacritic:2.1.0"] } } }

-i keeps stdin open, which is where the protocol travels, and -t is left out because a TTY rewrites the stream. The container needs outbound HTTPS to backend.metacritic.com, and nothing else: no volume, no port, no credential.

Bundle, without npm

Download mcp-metacritic-2.1.0.mcpb from the latest release and open it. A client that supports MCP bundles installs it on its own, with no npm and no configuration file to edit. The bundle carries its dependencies, so nothing is fetched at install time.

What you can ask

• "What did critics make of The Matrix?"
• "Read me a few negative reviews of that game."
• "What are the best-reviewed horror films?"
• "How does the user score compare to the Metascore?"
• "What came out recently that reviewed well?"

The ordinary path runs from a search to an entry: a row carries a slug and a kind, and get_title and get_reviews take both together.

Tools

A title is addressed by its slug together with its kind, since the same slug can name a film and a game.

search_titles

Finds films, series and games by title.

In return: rows carrying slug and kind, which get_title and get_reviews take together; title; year; release_date; rating, the age rating as published; metascore; user_score, which the search route publishes for no row and which is null on every one of them; and source_url. A score the site has not computed is `null`, never `0`: on a scale that starts at zero the two would be indistinguishable, and a title with too few reviews carries none.

get_title

Reads one entry. The heavier parts are asked for rather than served by default, and each one beyond the default costs a request.

In return: the entry a search row carries, plus description, tagline, genres, duration_minutes and imdb_id, each null where the page states nothing. total_chars, returned_chars and offset describe the slice of the description served.

get_reviews

Reads the reviews of one entry.

In return: reviews, each with its quote as published, its score, the max that score is out of, which is 100 for a critic and 10 for a user, and the publication that ran it. Name the publication when quoting a review. total_available counts every review Metacritic holds from that source for the entry, whatever sentiment was asked for, since the sentiment sorts the sample this server received rather than the request that fetched it. next_offset continues.

browse_titles

Lists a catalogue.

In return: the rows search_titles returns, with total_available, offset, next_offset and the kind, sort and genre the listing was read under.

Two scores, two things measured

The Metascore is a weighted average of professional reviews, out of 100. The user score is the average of what registered members gave, out of 10. They measure different populations on different scales, and a title can carry one and not the other. Read each with the max its reviews state, and report a missing score as missing.

Configuration

Every variable is optional. Set them in the env block of your client config.

| MC_LOG_LEVEL | error