Metacritic!

www.metacritic.com

Target Audience: People interested in reviews: of movies, books, music, whatever. Metacritic compiles numerical review scores from sites all over the web and creates an "average" score: it's similar to rotten tomatoes, but for more types of media. If you're interested in getting a general critical consensus about something, metacritic is a good place to start.

Usefulness of Content: It depends. Since so many different reviews are compiled, you have to take into consideration the fact that not everyone is going to like the same thing. If you're using metacritic to help determine a purchase, you might miss something really attuned to your personal taste just because what you're looking at is a love it or hate it album/movie/book. It's always best to actually read some of the reviews, rather than go by the numerical score straight up.

Consistency of Design: Check! For the amount of content provided, metacritic keeps things pretty simple. Blue, white, and yellow dominate all the pages, and the scores are always on the left side of the page on each particular media section. One thing: while there is a "new release" section on the front page for movies, DVDs, music, and video games, there isn't one for books. So you have to do a bit more looking- but luckily, the section links are just further up on the same page.

Ease of Use: It is fairly easy to navigate metacritic, and they provide some interesting ways to organize their scores: by year, and in order- highest to lowest and lowest to highest. So you can check out the top ten albums of 2003, for instance- at least the top ten albums according to metacritic. Plenty of searching options are provided too.