A Critical Consensus 6 November 2011

StuckInTheSixties: An assessment of current motion pictures by major American film critics. Film criticism is rated on a scale of 10 (excellent) to 1 (poor). I personally have found this consensus to be very accurate and reliable. Those movies I’ve seen with high ratings were excellent, and those I’ve seen with lower ratings weren’t. The movies are listed according to the critics’ ratings.

When a movie is reviewed by a film critic, that critic might make a smart, intelligent, worthy review ... or they might not. So trying to judge how good a movie is going to be based on a single, or even a few, reviews has an element of chance associated with it. All critics make poor reviews sooner or later.

But when you take the reviews of a large number of critics, and average them out in the way this Critical Consensus does, the critics' rating becomes very reliable.

Title / MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) content rating (G/PG/PG-13/R) / Film Criticism

Moneyball / PG-13 / 8.6
Take Shelter / R / 8.5
Drive / R / 8.1
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 / PG-13 / 8.1
Thunder Soul / PG / 8.1
Weekend / not rated by MPAA / 8.1
The Mill And The Cross / not rated by MPAA / 8.0
50/50 / R / 7.7
Margin Call / R / 7.6
The Lion King 3D / G / 7.5
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 / not rated by MPAA / 7.4
Hell And Back Again / not rated by MPAA / 7.4
Martha Marcy May Marlene / R / 7.4
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes / PG-13 / 7.3
The Ides Of March / R / 7.2
The Skin I Live In / R / 7.1
Crazy, Stupid Love / PG-13 / 7.0
Pearl Jam Twenty / not rated by MPAA / 7.0
The Woman / R / 7.0
Curling / not rated by MPAA / 6.9
Sleep Furiously / not rated by MPAA / 6.8
Tucker And Date Vs. Evil / R / 6.8
Blackthorn / R / 6.7
Contagion / PG-13 / 6.7
Dolphin Tale / PG / 6.7
American Teacher / not rated by MPAA / 6.6
My Afternoons With Margueritte / R / 6.6
Margaret / R / 6.5
Puss In Boots / PG / 6.5
The Help / PG-13 / 6.4
The Rum Diary / R / 6.3
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life / not rated by MPAA / 6.2
Oranges And Sunshine / R / 6.1
Paranormal Activity 3 / R / 6.1
Norman / R / 6.0
The Way / PG-13 / 6.0
Footloose / PG-13 / 5.9
Real Steel / PG-13 / 6.0
Okal / not rated by MPAA / 5.8
Finding Joe / PG-13 / 5.7
Puncture / R / 5.6
The Mighty Macs / G / 5.5
The Woman On The 6th Floor / not rated by MPAA / 5.5
Girlfriend / not rated by MPAA / 5.4
Toast / not rated by MPAA / 5.4
Anonymous / PG-13 / 5.3
3 / not rated by MPAA / 5.2
In Time / PG-13 / 5.1
Courageous / PG-13 / 5.0
The Big Year / PG / 4.9
1911 / R / 4.8
The Thing / R / 4.8
Johnny English Reborn / PG / 4.7
Machine Gun Preacher / R / 4.6
Programming The Nation? / not rated by MPAA / 4.6
Dirty Girl / R / 4.5
Killer Elite / R / 4.4
Fireflies In The Garden / R / 4.2
What’s Your Number / R / 4.1
The Three Musketeers / PG-13 / 3.8
Dream House / PG-13 / 3.6
The Smurfs / PG / 3.5
Trespass / R / 3.3
Abduction / PG-13 / 2.9
The Human Centipede 2 / R

Karma: Surprisingly, I have not seen any of the bottom 25.

StuckInTheSixties:

I thought you sheepishly admitted seeing the Smurfs ...

Karma: The Smurfs is in the bottom 25!!

Sacrilege!

If it doesn't win Best Picture, that will prove the Hollywood bias against the Blue-Skinned.

Avatar was good, but it sure didn't have Neil Patrick Harris!

KrAsH15: I would liked to see the ratings from critics who were heavily stoned.

One Bar: I haven't seen any of the top 13, and I've only seen 3 of the rest.

Predator should be on the top, simply as a measure of perfection. I won't hear any disagreements.

Karma: I've seen 5 of the top 13.
Of those, Drive was the best.
Best movie of the year, so far.

StuckInTheSixties:

I'm partial to "The Undefeated."

StuckInTheSixties:

(laughs)

I couldn't remember the title of the movie for that joke, so I Googled "Sarah Palin movie." The first item in the list of search results was this gem of a synopsis:

Sarah Palin Movie Debuts to Empty Theater in Orange County ...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/.../07/sarah-palin-movie.../241983/
Jul 15, 2011 – "Why aren't you seeing Harry Potter?" an usher said to the reporter sitting alone in the audience.

Much funnier than my silly joke ...

Karma:

One Bar: If it shows over here then I might dig out my Sarah Palin inflatable sex doll and take her along.