Dustin M. Wax

writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker

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Lately I've been pretty cagey about movies -- at $10 a ticket, $6 for kids, it's nearly $40 for our family of 5 to even get in the door -- then add another $40, at least, for popcorn and drinks. If I'm going to spend that kind of money on a movie, it had better be good.

So I check out MetaCritic when I'm considering a movie. MetaCritic compiles reviews from dozens of papers, assigns them a point value from 1-100, and averages them, giving you a pretty good indication of where reviewers stand.

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