About Criticwire Blog

Our resident Criticwire blogger, Matt Singer, is a Webby Award-winning writer, podcaster, critic, and television host. His criticism has appeared in The Village Voice, Time Out Chicago, Time Out New York, The AV Club and many other publications and websites. For six years, he was the on-air host of IFC News on the Independent Film Channel, as well as a regular fixture on its website, IFC.com. He's also served as a contributing critic on Ebert Presents At The Movies. In addition to his work on Criticwire, Matt is also the co-host of the Filmspotting: Streaming Video Unit podcast and a regular contributor to the Sundance Channel's SUNFiltered blog. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, dog, and a prop sword from the film Gymkata.

In addition to the blog, Criticwire is a network containing hundreds of working film critics who rate and review films on a regular basis.

To see the latest films rated on Criticwire, please visit our homepage. 

If you're a critic interested in joining the Criticwire Network or have questions pertaining to its content, please contact Indiewire's chief film critic, Eric Kohn, at eric@indiewire.com.

About Criticwire

We represent films as soon as they're available, regardless of the delivery method. While Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic only showcase movies in accordance with the traditional release calendar, we aggregate grades, comments and reviews as soon as films hit the marketplace--whether that's at film festivals, VOD or theaters. As soon as they hit the public, Criticwire is paying attention.

Films are judged in multiple ways. Instead of the basic objective standards used for judging films on other sites, we give critics several options. They can grade films using a scale containing 13 grades, but can also submit comments or excerpts from their reviews as well as participating in polls to help us create a truly crowdsourced assessment of quality.

Our network is a real community. Indiewire has strong connections in the film world that allows us to maintain one-to-one relationships with many Criticwire members. We don't just list them on the site; we talk to them on a regular basis to make sure they're satisfied with the way CW represents their opinions.

We have a blog. The Criticwire blog provides a better resource than anything else out there for the latest movie reviews as well as insight and commentary about trends in the critical community.