Search Metacritic for films, shows and games by title. Returns one compact row per match, carrying the critic Metascore, so a question about the critical verdict needs no second call. Search rows carry no audience score: use get_title for that, or browse_titles, which does return it. Use the slug and kind with get_title for the full entry, or with get_reviews for what critics wrote. There is no paging: 'limit' is the only lever, and results always start from the most relevant match. This searches titles only. It cannot find an entry from a plot detail, a person or a studio.

Read one Metacritic entry by slug and kind, both from search_titles. Sections are opt-in because a full entry is large: 'basic' and 'scores' are the default and cover most questions. 'scores' fetches the critic and audience breakdowns, each with its own scale, so never compare the two numbers directly. Sections gate the payload: asking for 'scores' alone returns no description, and 'basic' alone returns no scores. 'networks' lists the broadcasters of a show; 'where_to_watch' costs an extra request and covers films and shows only. A long description paginates: when 'truncated' is true, call again with 'offset' set to 'next_offset'.

Read individual reviews of a Metacritic entry, from critics or from users. Get the slug and kind from search_titles first. Filter with 'sentiment' to read only what praised or panned it, which Metacritic groups itself. Metacritic returns a fixed sample rather than the full list, so 'total_available' is usually far larger than what comes back, and there is no way to page past the sample. Critic reviews carry the publication and a link to the original article: quote them with both. Critic scores run to 100 and user scores to 10, so do not average the two together.

List films, shows or games by score, by release date or by current popularity. Use this when there is no specific title to look up: best rated, newest, what people are looking at now. Filter by genre with a single name such as Horror, Comedy or Action. Sorting by score returns the all-time ranking, which is dominated by older titles: combine with a genre to narrow it. Scores come back on their own scales, 100 for critics and 10 for users. Paging is approximate: Metacritic does not order tied entries stably, so an entry can appear on two consecutive pages. Deduplicate by slug rather than counting rows.