We’ve also incorporated poster-sized images into the top recommendation, and cleaned up the style of the PSIs for the recommended films.

Of course, this filtering is only as good as the data. We’ve filled out the data for thousands of actors, directors and screenwriters, but there are many more that need the information. To further that end, as part of this update, we’ve also loosened the restrictions for updating biography information.

Used to be, you had to fill out (a) Nationality, (b) Date of Birth, and (c) Biography, before Criticker would accept the change. Now, you can fill out one, two or all three of the values. So if you know where Lou Diamond Phillips is from, but not when he was born, you can still contribute.

Hope you enjoy the new feature!

The outrage was focused mainly on the giant PSI / Rating numbers. On retrospect, we agreed — they were a little much, and I’m honestly not sure why we released the page looking like that. The truth is, we were mostly excited to get the new statistics functionality to our users, and had just grown used to the big numbers during development.

Hope you like the new layout better. If so, let us know! And if not, well… sigh. Let us know that too, I suppose. But in a nice way.

As you might have already noticed, we’ve just made big new changes to the Film Information page. We hope you like them! Here is an overview of some of the updates and enhancements just introduced.

Larger, Poster-Sized Images
We’ve got poster-sized images for about 2500 of the films in our database, and have provided a utility to allow users to upload ones that are missing.

Larger PSI/Rating Indicator
Along with a cleaned-up look for sharing your favorite films via Twitter, Facebook or Email.

Enhanced Sorting Possibilities on Rankings
View all rankings, just those with reviews, or just your kumpels, and order them by TCI, Tier, Date Ranked or # Stars. What’s more… Criticker will remember the last way you sorted, so if you always like you look at “Latest Rankings with Reviews”, you’ll see that right away.

Statistics
We know this is what you’ve all been waiting for. Check out statistics of the Tier Breakdown for each movie. Also, tier breakdowns on specific personal information, such as gender, age and country.

We really hope you like the changes! And please help us out by submitting posters for those films which don’t yet have them. The page looks fine with the legacy, smaller images, but much better when there are full-sized posters.

And a huge thanks to our Sponsors, without whose support Criticker wouldn’t be possible. If you’re enjoying the website, please think about helping out — we exist without any kind of corporate cash, and really depend on the generosity of our users.

Thanks to chao, revivius, justww, syllalibus for their incredible work on this first-ever Criticker smartphone app! What an excellent use of our APIs; we’re really happy with the results! Many Criticker features have been replicated in the application, such as:
*Signin/Signout
*Rank Films
*Get Recommendations
*Film Information
*Actor/Director/Screenwriter Information
*Collection Management
*Search … and much more!

Check out some screen shots below, and when you’re convinced, go here to get the free application: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobulasoft.criticker

Make sure to rank the application on the Market, and leave your comments directly to the guys at the forum: http://www.criticker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2975

This makes it easy to see the relative popularity of a film, based on the number of people who’ve seen it. The PSI is still the personalized recommendation, but the average tier might also be of interest to many users.

It might be slow going, but we’re constantly working on enhancing Criticker… little small steps all the time. We’re glad you’re sticking with us!

Just a quick little improvement which will hopefully make it easier for you to administer your collections, without having to go into the moderation screen or the page for each individual film.

Just a minor change, but one that we hope improves your experience a bit!

Hope you like this new feature… as always, let us know if something doesn’t work quite right!