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A place to track TV shows, movies, video games, books, and comics, drop a verdict, and see what people you follow are logging. You can also build public group lists (Watching, reading, or play lists by medium) that others can browse. We lean a little theatrical about “critic culture” — but the lists and reviews are yours.

• Home — Trending picks, Following Activity, and the Intel feed with tabs (For you, Movies, TV, Games, Books, Comics, Search).
• Search — Full-page search across movies, TV, games, books, and comics (with filters). Same engine as the search box in the nav.
• Discover — Browse by genre, year, region (where applicable), books by subject, and comics (Comic Vine) by year and sort.
• Lists — Public community lists for every medium; filter by type and search by list name.
• Community — Recent public reviews from across the site (everyone, not just who you follow); filter by type, sentiment, genres, and (for games) platforms.
• Critics — Activity from people you follow, with filters (who, media type, sentiment, genres, platforms).
• My List (via your profile) — Your library, organised by TV Shows, Movies, Video Games, Books, then Comics.
• Affiliate disclosure — How we use Amazon Associates links on title pages (commissions, pricing, and your privacy).

Open Search or use the search field in the nav. Type a title to look up movies, TV, games, books, and comics (TMDB, IGDB, Open Library, and Comic Vine). The sidebar lets you narrow by type, year, genres (or book subject / comic filters as offered), country of origin (for film/TV), and platformwhen you're focused on games.

Most pages offer filtersso you can slice the catalogue or other people's reviews to exactly what you are looking for. You can normally filter by:

• Discover — Depends on medium: genre, year, region (movies/TV), subjects (books), year and sort (comics), platforms (games). By default only titles that are already out where that applies; tick Include coming soon (unreleased) for film/TV/games to surface future releases. Default sort is Trending / popular for a mix of buzz and popularity (recent when you use filters); Highest rated (all time) for classics.
• Community — Media type, sentiment (verdict), genre chips, and for games, platform. Use “Reset filters” to clear.
• Critics — Narrow by who you follow, media type, sentiment, genres, and game platform. Only shows people you already follow.
• Search — Combine a text query with type, year, genres, origin, and platform (depending on type).

Sign in with Google, then open any title from Search or Discover. Use Add to your list on the title's page (movies, TV, games, books, or comics). You can update or remove entries anytime from your profile.

Signed-in users can create public group lists per medium — labelled things like Watching Lists, Reading Lists, or Play Lists depending on type. From a title page, create a new list (with an optional description) or edit lists you own: reorder titles, search to add more, and save.

The Lists page indexes every public list: filter by medium, search by name, and sort. Lists also appear in Discover sub-navigation.

Every title has three stages (wording shifts slightly for games — “play” instead of “watch”):

• Plan — Saved for later (watchlist / backlog).
• Watching / playing — In progress. You can set a quick verdict (highly recommend, recommend, give it a go, neutral, avoid) without a full score yet.
• Done — Finished. That unlocks your rating (0–10, half-point steps) and written review.

TV shows: you set status per season (tap a season to cycle Plan → Watching → Done). One show stays a single row on your profile; progress reads like “Seasons 1–3” instead of duplicate entries.

When you're done with something, add a rating, choose a verdict (Highly recommended, Recommend, Give it a go, Neutral, or Avoid), and optionally a short write-up.

Stuck on wording? Use Rewrite like a true Critic, Sir! — it takes your rating, medium, and any phrases you typed and offers four short options in a friendly home viewing voice. Pick one and edit, or just write your own; review AI is limited to one batch of suggestions per title per day.

Your browser can underline spelling mistakes in review and profile fields; right-click (or long-press on mobile) for suggestions.

On Critics, Community, and title pages, you may see Agree (or similar) on someone else's review when they've shared a rating, verdict, or comment — and the entry isn't backlog-only. Tap it to add your name to the list of people who nodded along; tap again to remove. You need to be signed in, and you can't Agree with your own review.

Open Community, find someone whose taste you trust (or love to argue with), and hit Follow. Their new logs show up on Critics and in the Following activitystrip on the home page when you're signed in.

If your follow list is new (or quiet), home can backfill a few cards from wider community activity so the section does not feel empty. As your followed critics post more, their posts naturally take over those slots.

The home page Intel feed is split into tabs so you can switch between For you and general updates for Movies, TV, Games, Books, and Comics (new volumes on Comic Vine).

In Search, use the title of a TV show, movie, game, or book to pull related update cards.

On movie, TV, and game detail pages, an Updates section appears near the bottom with the latest relevant cards for that title.

On TV detail pages, there is a Seasons box between Cast and Updates. Use the tabs at the top to switch seasons.

Each season shows an episode grid with episode number, episode name, release date, runtime, average online score, and the episode description.

This section is view only. You do not need to review episodes individually in your list.

On a critic's profile, the main column runs TV Shows, Movies, Video Games, Books, then Comics. The smaller column has avatar, bio, and the Taste panel.

Favourite genres & top picks — On your profile you can set favourite genres for TV, movies, games, books, and comics (up to eight per category where applicable), and up to three toptitles in each medium, picked from search. Book genres use curated labels; comic genres use app-defined categories (Comic Vine does not expose a public genre API). These power the Taste sidebar and help others see your taste at a glance. Save when you're done editing.

Edit profile — From your own profile, Edit profile opens a panel where you can change your display name, upload or remove a profile photo (saved with the rest of your changes), write or paste a bio (up to 280 characters), or click the bio AI button to see up to four first-person bio ideas based on your reviews and pick one to tweak. Bio AI is capped at a few generations per day and needs at least three logged items to work.

Select theme — On your own profile, Select theme sits next to Edit profile. It opens the theme picker; Apply saves your choice right away (no need to use Edit profile for colours).

Themes — These change colours on your public profile (Critic Blue by default, a light classic variant, film/TV moods, game-genre styles, and more). Only your profile view uses your choice.

On movie, TV, game, book, and comic title pages you may see outbound links to Amazon (for example streaming, Kindle, discs, comics & graphic novels, or related products). Critic, Sir! participates in the Amazon Associates Program: if you follow those links and make a qualifying purchase, we may earn a small commission. That does not change the price you pay.

If your device timezone is Australia/Sydney, links use the Australian storefront (amazon.com.au) with the AU associate tag; otherwise links use amazon.com with the US tag.

For the full wording, open Affiliate disclosure. The same page is linked from the shopping sidebar on title pages.

Review dialogs now protect against accidental closes. If you click outside the modal, hit Cancel, or tap the close icon after making changes, you will get a discard confirmation first.

This helps prevent losing typed text or one per day AI rewrite suggestions by mistake.