ScreenRant has a rating of 1.4 stars from 117 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about ScreenRant most frequently mention fake news problems. ScreenRant ranks 371st among Movie sites.
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This isn't a place for breaking movie news or long-form journalism. What it is, is a passionate and active fan community. The "SR Originals" are my favorite. The writers on this site often find ways to write about shows and movies from angles I never thought of.
Overall entertainment sites in general have ads running on their site, but Screenrant makes the experience impossible for the user. The pop-up video ads are more noticeable on mobile. The other experience to share is that they do tend to not source where they get an exclusive. Sometimes they do which seems to be other sites owned by the same media company, but otherwise no credit is given to the original source. That is a sneaky practice and contributes to mis-information.
I would give 0 stars if I could. I frequently get adds for ScreenRant articles based on what movies, video games, ect. I enjoy... I almost always read the caption for any article before I read who published it, and 9/10 times I can guess if it's a ScreenRant article because they are spewing total $#*!e nonsense opinions. It is always clickbait just to rack up views because they pay people crap to write crap articles for them.
Tip for consumers:
Don't bother reading their articles
The articles and "reviews" are mean-spirited, dishonest, and unprofessional. It goes beyond opinion into actual hate and harassment. I used to read the articles and laugh at how stupid they were. One went too far. It was an undeserved attack on the show, characters, and actors. I will never read or visit the site again. I will also warn friends about it's polarizing content.
Screen rant is too bias, they talk about more about their opinions, then anything else and doesn't always have the right facts on certain things. They do have some good quality though like they good at the researching. But there are some articles that are unprofessional and give out spoiler with no warning.
Badly written junk, ripped off from other websites and Youtubers usually. Add to that a needless social agenda stuffed into articles as filler and generally bad takes in opinions which go against the status quo to be edgy, and it makes for a pretty terrible reading experience. The Ads are pretty awful as well
Articles routinely have titles like "20 Things Everyone Got Wrong" and proceeds to list some vaguely related facts that are so very painfully obvious that saying "Everyone" got them wrong would be a complete lie. Major, climatic events that differed slightly between the book and movie are apparently extremely vague.
Imagine an entire website that lives on Clickbait. Desperately attempting to gain views by publishing identical articles that say the same thing, put on three different titles and there are three hit pieces. This news outlet puts CNN and FOX to shame.
Every article seems to lead with some sort of made up problem for whatever fandom they are attacking. They then go on and on about something based off no fact just opinion and then try and cheery pick some other stuff to try and back their opinion. I use to think they were a solid place to get movie news but its just junk.
They are not professional whatsoever in rankings, they have clear favourites and clear dislikes, this makes them biased.
Following on from the last point, when they have an opinion, they will never let up, they will poison people's opinions. This makes them bigoted
Finally, they lie and paint completely inaccurate pictures of something they want to "smear". This makes them bull$#*!, they should be thankful I can't give negative ratings.
I could list a dozen reasons why this site sucks, but just one example I can give is the time they made a list ranking ALL Godzilla films that only had 15 entries. There are over 30 Godzilla movies. A poorly written list that was only half finished; a small mercy considering every entry was needlessly listed on a separate page. Gotta get those clicks somehow, right?
Other articles and lists they produce exhibit the same shoddy work. I don't think I've ever read/watched a Screen Rant piece that wasn't clickbait and/or full of factual errors.
If I could give less than one star, I would.
Enough is enough, already. So many popups, that refuse to close when you hit the microscopic 'x' dead-center. They've introduced a new, more annoying form of ad that surrounds your screen in a black border, thicker on the top and bottom, which displays banner ads. You can't even read the article because it's cut off by the border.
It's an ad site. That's it, that's all. Clickbait for cash.
Every article is biased as all hell with no actual point to them. Each article is littered with grammatical errors, clearly showing that they don't have any competent editors on staff. Overall it is just low quality fake news meant for people who are too dumb to notice that the articles are written by a bunch of people who clearly never finished 9th grade English.
Having chanced upon this site I was so shocked by the lamentable quality of content on this site, which is uniformly crammed with errors (grammatical and factual) and repetitive, uninformed writing clearly targeting a word count rather than any sort of quality. I was so appalled I sought out reviews of the site to confirm that my incredulity wasn't misplaced. Seems it wasn't! If you want to read content of this standard may I recommend you ask a six year old to write a story about what they did on their holidays, it'll be of a similar quality but likely far more entertaining.
Every title is clickbait, each review is hateful rather than critical so they can get more buzz. Each 'list' that they do can't even have any consistency. Case in point, their 20 things wrong with Black Widow list. Obviously people are thinking of the MCU character when they look for a list like this. But they had to stretch as far as one obscure COMIC story that no one even knew about to make the list. Sensationalism in every sense of the word.
Lobbies for industry products instead of truly and objectively critiquing them. Reviews and news particularly regarding Star Wars media promote it as if Screen Rant were a pitch to sell the product and writers ignore/dismiss very present and relevant issues regarding the franchise.
One of my biggest laments in life is that I am forced to watch a Screen Rant video each week in order to watch the talented Ryan George do Pitch Meetings. If not for that, I would pay a small fortune to have this site wiped from existence, or at the very least from my browsing experience. This is complete garbage, fake news, clickbait, cow dung masquerading as journalism.
Screenrant lies about almost everything. What's worse, they make it look like it's true! Like half of the websites justifies horrible movies/series and the other half talks trash about actually good movies/series. Don't read from this. Please. Supporting this website means supporting misinformation. Don't do that.
A click-bait website where multi-page articles are quickly and poorly written around one or two mundane facts. A recent article about My Hero Academia took many paragraphs to simply say that the author received criticism about how he drew a character, but he stuck with it. That would be one of many facts in a proper article about the author at a quality website. At screen rant it is the article.
How can one site be so consistengly bad and keep missing the mood of movie fans. Their constant need to stir up hate and be offended by everything has turned them from a light hearted entertainment site to a depressing joke.
This company's work culture is just the poorest that I have ever seen. The managers and editors completely ignore the staff of writers. I don't see how anyone can run a business the way they do. Seriously, do you know what happens when you ignore people? They go away and find work somewhere else.
They pay out one of the lowest rates in the industry. The editors do nothing but cause problems. When you do manage to get one to reply to you, they are always nothing but nasty, rude, and manipulative.
If you are going to work for this company, start looking for other work the moment they onboard you so you can get the heck out of there. The work environment and culture is like having to swim around in a vat of toxicity.
Screen Rant, along with all its sister sites (Gamerant, CBR etc) are the worst entertainment sites ever. Stolen content, click bait titles, poorly (If any) researched articles. The people who contribute to this site need to get their heads out of their rear ends and stop smelling their own farts cause non of them are worthy to be called "Writers"
Screenrant legit wrote an article about how Carol Danvers needs to "take a lesson" from the men in the MCU. That honestly just speaks volumes for you. I doubt that the person who wrote the review actually hates women (but i could be wrong, SOMEONE came up with the idea) its just that you want you're clout, and you want to stir up drama. And thats honestly so sad. You have millions of followers, yet your accounts are so dead you need to create some drama off of a controversial topic (captain marvel/brie larson) honestly y'all need to take a hint. Deactivate your twitter, delete your youtube, and lastly erase any presence that you ever existed off the Internet
I'm done with screenrant. I'm tired of all the pop up ads. When an ad comes up I press the x multiple times and it doesn't go away. That's just dirty! Nobody wants the stupid ads anyway and screenrant keeps forcing them on users now pressing the x doesn't make ad go away and they are in your face the whole time I'm on the site. I'm done!
They just write what they want to hear, most of the times there are mistakes all over the articles and the writers know little to nothing of the subjects they're writing about. A sorry pathetic excuse for journalism.
Hi John, sorry to hear that you feel this way. We cover a lot of different topics and these topics are covered by people with varying levels of expertise - relative to the kind of article that's being written. Not every infotainment list needs to be written by someone with a degree in film criticism. That said, the core SR team is made up of a long-established group of people with over 10 years covering the entertainment industry - journalists who are regularly present on film sets and sit down with actors, directors, writers, etc for exclusive interviews. So, while some writers have less experience and might make mistakes (and might have already been removed from the site for not fact-checking), it's hyperbolic to suggest that, as a whole, the team knows little-to-nothing about the subjects they're covering.
If you start to actually care for the site and want to go into leaving comments, beware! They will censor you if the users start to care about your comments. Their information is also nothing but copy-paste from other sties AND a ton of their article title's are clickbait.
Total garbage, no standards, accepts all kind of crap trash woke articles, while being woke does not need to mean you cannot write good articles, this is the case here. Articles such as 10. Characters that could easily beat Superman:
1. "Catwoman, because she's a woman and has to give birth, besides her beauty can distract superman and then he can scratch his face with her adamtium claws MEOOOW!"
2. Robin, because he is gay (probably) and being gay means you have to fight for your rights, Superman isn't gay, he does not know how to fight for your homosexuality, of course he loses to Robin's sexuality!
WHAT? I could pull better things out of my $#*!!
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Hey Weston, sorry to hear this. I'm not sure which article you read but we've got one on the site that covers 32 films - and ranks them accordingly. It's all on one page. Maybe it was an older list article on Facebook? There was a time where we promoted articles on FB and they were separated into about 5 pages but we haven't done that for awhile (before the date you posted your review). Either way, I'll take your feedback to the team.