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Template:Metacritic film displays an external link to a web page for film title at the Metacritic website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

Usage

Unnamed parameters: {{Metacritic film | ID }}; {{Metacritic film | ID | TITLE }}

Named parameters: {{Metacritic film | id= ID }}; {{Metacritic film | id= ID | title= TITLE }}

Using Wikidata property Metacritic ID (P1712): {{Metacritic film}}; {{Metacritic film | title= TITLE }}

Instructions

Go to Metacritic.com and search for the film title. Click on the correct link to go to the film's page. The URL should look like this:
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/film-name/
Copy only the portion after /movie/ and add one of the following to the External links section of the article:
* {{Metacritic film | film-name }}

* {{Metacritic film | id= film-name }}

* {{Metacritic film | film-name | Film Name }}

* {{Metacritic film | id= film-name | title= Film Name }}

where film-name is the film's unique ID string as copied from the URL

and Film Name is the title of the film (this is optional, if not specified it defaults to the Wikipedia article name).

Examples

Unnamed parameters

URL: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-godfather/

Usage: * {{Metacritic film | the-godfather | The Godfather }}

Output

The Godfather at Metacritic

Named parameters

URL: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-terminator/

Usage: * {{Metacritic film | id= the-terminator | title= The Terminator (1984) }}

Output

The Terminator (1984) at Metacritic

No ID in template or Wikidata

Usage: {{Metacritic film}}

Output: {{Metacritic film}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Metacritic film

This template displays an external link to a film title web page at the Metacritic website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

Template parameters[]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
ID	`id` `1`	The ID portion of the URL, such as the-godfather in https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-godfather/. This parameter is optional if Wikidata property P1712 exists, but required if not. Default Wikidata property P1712	String	optional
Title	`title` `2`	The film title, which is displayed in italic type in the link text. This parameter is optional; it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation. Default {{PAGENAMEBASE}}	String	optional

Tracking categories

The following are also used by {{Metacritic album}}, {{Metacritic television}} and {{Metacritic video game}}: