I'm going to cheat a little bit for this post and pull a bait-and-switch. Rather than agonizing for hours to craft my own carefully curated best and worst of 2011 lists, I instead direct the reader to peruse the following links from the Rankings page on this site: Best Blu-ray Releases of 2011 and Worst Blu-ray Releases of 2011.

Blu-ray releases in these lists are sorted by their Squid Rank - a weighted average of review scores collected from a variety of Blu-ray websites, blogs and forums around the world. Since you probably don't really care about my own personal thoughts on the best and worst of 2011 anyway, I thought it would be more interesting for me to describe how the Squid Rank is calculated, some of its current limitations, and possible changes to address these.

As you may have noticed if this isn't your first time 'round these parts, Cinema Squid has changed a little bit. Well, maybe more than a little bit on the surface and definitely quite a bit under the hood. This is the third major revision of the Cinema Squid website since it first launched in March 2008. Back in those hazy days of yore, it had been mere weeks since the format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD was finally settled by the unconditional surrender of Toshiba.