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Hey in every medium, when something is loved and gushed about by the majority of critics, we can call them critical darlings. It's not an insult. It's perfectly neutral. Now we have metacritic, which aggregates those reviews, so metadarlings is just a funnier way to say that. Godfather 2, Citizen Kane, and The Shawshank Redemption are metadarlings, and so is GTAIV with its Oscar-worthy dialogue.