Common Sense Media

I read Ms. Schonfeld's review of 'Slamma Jamma' and you can pull your hair out. The film is a beautiful portrayal of a man searching for Christ. She obviously doesn't get it. But why would she? She's never directed or written a film in her entire life. Her gravestone will read: "I'm a movie critic and I'm better than all the directors, writers and producers combined. I'm a movie critic." You laugh. What parent tells their children to someday grow up to be movie critics?

I'm extremely disappointed with common sense media's review information because they are leaving out so much information from the content they're reviewing it's like they aren't even trying and honestly I'm just as surprised by movie content as I would be if I didn't look up the reviews on common sense media if not more so. In my opinion the only way someone would be happy with common sense media's reviews is if they're a teenager trying to watch movies or other content their parents would rather not allow them to see. As for me I'm big into family friendly content that for the most part won't make anyone uncomfortable so I'll only use IMDb for information from now on.

I have always enjoyed the reviews of commonsense media. It has been a valuable resource that I could use to discern whether media is suitable for my son. Even if some of the reviews were by "soccer moms" I always found the insights valuable. And best of all it was free!

Was... Was free. Imagine my dismay when I logged on today to get an opinion on a game only to be presented with a notice stating that I have used up my three free reviews and now need to pay to access more content.

A lot of their reviews relied on kids and parents. I am sure that this will have an adverse effect on the quality of the reviews.

Maybe I am misunderstanding the term "Non-profit Organization". Maybe I am alone here.

Ah well, now I am at liberty of my own devices and FPB ratings.

Years ago, I looked to this site as a good place to see if movies and or television shows were good for children. Then something happened. It's all about wokness. Any sort of Real review about how good the move you may be is thrown out the window. It's all about how diverse the cast is and any sort of inclusiveness- no matter how obscure.

Common Sense Media is a website for parents who are stuffy on what they say about movies that aren't for kids. Parents will go crazy over movies that are for other ages besides kids despite reading the age rating on each movie.

You have to pay to read more then 3 reviews a month and its all just some karens telling bull$#*! about TV shows and stuff. Imagine liking a show and then you go on this trash website with a bunch of karens saying that its violent. Also when you write a review sometimes it would say it contains alcoholic stuff for no reason. And the worst part is people actually believe in those dumb review and you know how it ends up. No fr about 5 people said spongebob squarepants was 18+ like the dumbest reasons. I can not believe that this website is still running its so Bad.

Once were good a year ago, since then they seem to have been "compromised" by the industry... split up reviews "by teens" and "by parents" obviously pitting children against parents, and attempting to basically shill for the movie/Netflix industry by playing down serious disturbing content, or making light of dangerous subjects (see their ridiculous "this is great story" reviews about Squid Game, something that NO CHILD should be watching, anyone under 18)

Common Sense Media has, on multiple occasions, over-rated thing, countless video games rated 17 and 18+ Most of them being rated by a government organization (the ESRB) as E10+ or T. And they straight up lie about content, adding random things to up the age rating to fit their agenda, absolutely bulls**t. Do not use. (Also even though they claim to be a non-profit, they blatantly charge you money to read more than 3 "reviews", and you can even read them again) Again, DO NOT USE.

While I don't always agree with the age ranges of the reviews, common sense does a good job of showing why they gave a piece of media the rating. It allows us to make smarter choices for our kids

In nearly every situation, Common Sense Media provides well-written yet succinct critiques of movies, games, music, and even websites. Unlike most other "family review" sites, they do not have an extreme Christian bias and will review any movie with an open mind. They give two ratings... one is mostly for parents, which is the recommend age for the movie.

It is very detailed and not just a rating like PG or PG-13... they will specifically explain that one movie is good for 11 and up and another might be 14 and up.

I do have one minor issue with them... they decided to give the website HomestarRunner.com a score of "15+", implying that the site would be inappropriate for anyone under 15. While I do agree with the 4/5 they gave for H*Rs quality... the fact that they think that the Brothers Chaps mostly harmless collection of flash cartoons is only for older teens and adults makes me wonder if they even watched them.

But besides that whiny rant, I actually enjoy using this site to see what they think of things. They can be trusted in most cases.

CSM is a poorly strung together reviewing site full of misunderstood/unreliable critics that can't review anything correctly regardless of what it is. I personally think it wants parents to be overprotective and overly cautious when it comes to their children on the internet, and that is not right. Please do look at my photos of three different ratings. SpongeBob and Invader Zim were once my childhood. (And Invader Zim has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.) How can they give 2 children's TV shows 3 stars and Borat 2, which is full of sex and crude humor 4 stars? This is B. S. I suppose their very generous rating is 3 stars for most, and if it's out of this world, it's 4 or 5. CSM tries to be as critical as they can in providing their reviews, always inserting some text in the description that gives it a downside, like the repetitive use of "iffy content" in reviews. Parents and all who plan to use this mess of a site, please stand clear of it. You should not believe a word that comes out of the critics' mouths, however, I can assure you that the audience will be more in depth and truthful with their reviews. But that doesn't stop me from staying away from this site.

I have used this site multiple times. In the language section, does not seem to be on point. I have downloaded another APP called VidAngel. 100 % no issues with language etc.

LISTEN! SAYING THE WORD POOP DOESNT MAKE IT 18+ OKAY? SANE PEOPLE KNOW THAT! BUT THE IDIOTS ON COMMONSENCEMEDIA ARE JUST DUMB! LIKE 5 PEOPLE SAID PEPPA PIG SHOULD BE 18 AND UP! AND BEVERLY HILL CHIHUAHUA IS NOT RACIST!

They betrayed me, I cannot return, I am locked by them, They do not wanna Let Me Go, that means, I had just 3 Revies allowed and Now I must pay for More, They live from Our Money. She Was in Beldam World 3 Times, And I has three reviews and Not I am Fired off. Mother$#*!ers, I now must pay for premium for month or year If I want to Stay. They Are Toxic and Evil, They takes our monay, they really do not wanna help us

It was good in 2008-2010 but in 2011, soccermoms came and ruined it, they gave it one star and 18+ because of the adult jokes (s3x related jokes kids won't get)

Common Sense is a great site to expose inappropriate content that you do not want your children to see

Soccer mom condescending misleading pathetic attempts at being pseudo movie critics glossed over with neurologically over medicated rectal sanitizer

Terrible awful site. They don't know what they're talking about and only negatives about it. *******

This is filled with people trying to ban all games and review games that they haven't even played. This isn't right.

The reviews leaned toward the normalization for child sex, and making vulgarity a "norm." Their reviews are misleading.

It's filled with soccer moms and overprotective parents that give almost everything that's not G-rated an 18+ rating

The scumbags are trying to charge for user-generated content. Absolutely disgraceful.

Use kids-in-mind.com instead.

This website always get away with giving good movies bad reviews and it only cares about educational tv.