mcp-metacritic

An MCP server for Metacritic. Search films, shows and games, read Metascores and audience scores, and quote what individual critics wrote, with the publication named and the article linked. No API key, no account, no configuration.

(Version française plus bas / French version below)

Quickstart

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"]
    }
  }
}

Bundle, without npm

Download mcp-metacritic-<version>.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.

Tools

Search returns a slug and a kind for every result, and the other tools take both. That is the intended chain: search, then read.

The server is read-only. It writes nothing back to Metacritic.

Things worth knowing

The two scores are on different scales. The critic Metascore runs to 100 and the audience score to 10, so 73 and 8.9 describe similar opinions. Every score this server returns carries its own max, and the tool descriptions say so, because averaging the two is the single easiest mistake to make with this data.

Sections are opt-in because an entry is large. A detail response is 46 KB for a film, most of it artwork variants. get_title returns basic and scores by default; awards, production, networks and where_to_watch cost an extra request each and are only fetched when asked for.

Reviews are a sample, not a page. Metacritic counts 36 critic reviews on a given film and serves 7 through this route, whatever paging you ask for. The tool says so rather than presenting the sample as the whole list, and links the entry page where the rest can be read.

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