About Celluloid
Where critics and audiences meet
Celluloid on NewMoviesReviews.com — new movie reviews with Celluloid Score ratings, Metascores, audience ratings, and expert critic write-ups. Find the best new movies worth watching.
Everything in one place
Celluloid brings together the features film fans actually want, all under one roof:
- Celluloid Score — our own critic-percentage scoring with Fresh/Rotten verdicts
- Metascore — weighted score aggregation from top critics
- Star ratings & watchlists — a personal film diary, saved locally in your browser
- Comprehensive credits — cast, crew, runtime, and audience ratings on every film
- Long-form critic reviews — in-depth, byline-driven analysis
- Festival coverage — Cannes, Venice, Telluride, and beyond
- Critical essays — deep analytical writing on cinema
- Editorial-quality prose — pull quotes and professional verdicts
Performance-first architecture
Built with Astro for zero-JavaScript by default, Celluloid targets 100/100 Core Web Vitals scores. Static generation, optimized CSS, semantic HTML, and structured data ensure blazing load times and maximum visibility in search engines, answer engines, and generative AI platforms.
Our mission
We believe great film criticism should be accessible to everyone — not locked behind paywalls, cluttered with ads, or buried in algorithmic feeds. Celluloid puts the data you need and the analysis you deserve front and center.