How CriticCrunch Works

CriticCrunch helps you find movies and TV shows worth watching across your streaming services. Here's a quick overview of what's here and how to use it.

The Top % Score

Every title on CriticCrunch has a Top % score. A title in the Top 3% scores higher than 97% of all titles in our catalog. Movies are ranked against movies. TV shows are ranked against TV shows.

The score is a quick way to gauge quality at a glance, but it's one signal, not the final word. A Top 1% title might not match your mood, and a Top 20% title might be exactly what you're looking for.


Find Something to Watch

There are several ways to find your next watch, depending on what you're in the mood for.

Explore is the main browsing experience. Filter by genre, year, streaming service, quality tier, and more. Sort by newest, oldest, or quality. Switch between grid and table views. If you've marked titles as watched, you can hide them.

Pick for Me gives you instant suggestions. Set a few preferences like genre, service, quality floor, runtime, and era, then spin. You can pull up to three titles at a time.

MoodMatch takes a different approach. Enter one to five movies you love, and CriticCrunch recommends titles based on what they have in common. Results are shareable.


What's New and What's Free

New shows titles that recently arrived on streaming services. You can filter by service and sort by date or quality. It includes a Coming Soon section.

Free highlights what's available on free and ad-supported services like Tubi, Pluto TV, Peacock, and Kanopy, ranked by catalog quality.


Compare Streaming Services

Compare Services shows how streaming catalogs stack up side by side: total titles, share of top-rated content, and median quality, broken down by movies and TV. It also shows which services lead in each genre.


Search

Search works for both titles and people. Start typing a movie or show name, or search for an actor, director, writer, or producer to see their page.


Games

CriticCrunch includes daily games and challenges built around movie and TV knowledge.

Poster Peek Guess the movie from a blurred poster. Fewer reveals, more points.

TV Frame Identify the TV show from an episode screenshot.

Award Winner Pick the Oscar winner from the real nominee list.

Box Office Battle Guess which film earned more at the box office.

Cast Swipe Rapid-fire: was this actor in this film? You have sixty seconds.

Greenlight Draft six films from studio-decade pools and assign them to genre slots, including a wildcard position.


Watchlist

You can mark titles as watched anywhere on the site. Your watched list is saved locally in your browser and stays in sync across tabs. Use the “Hide Watched” toggle on Explore to filter out titles you've already seen.