Highly Anticipated "Fantastic Mr. Fox" starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson receives a Metascore of 88

            SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13 - Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/), the Web's most robust roundup of entertainment reviews, and a property of CBS Interactive, today announced its weekly Metascores® for the week's opening movies as of Friday, November 13 at 10:50 AM-PT.  Metacritic carefully screens and selects the most respected reviewers within each entertainment category and combines all of the individual critics' scores into a Metascore, an overall grade for each release, so users can gauge the critical consensus at a glance. Movie Metascores are compiled using weighted scores from the 41 most respected movie critics and publications in the U.S.

 

Following is a list of the Metascores for this week's opening movies:

 

Wide Releases:

"Pirate Radio," starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nigh, Kenneth Branagh and January Jones - Metascore = 56

"2012," starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet and Woody Harrelson - Metascore = 50

Limited Releases:

"Fantastic Mr. Fox," starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson - Metascore = 88

"The Messenger," starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton - Metascore = 80

"Dare," starring Emmy Rossum, Alan Cumming and Sandra Bernhardt - Metascore = 52

"William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe," directed by Sarah Kunstler and Emily Kunstler - Metascore = 52

"Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon," directed by Mary Mazzio - Metascore = 47

"Love Hurts," starring Carrie-Ann Moss, Jenna Elfman and Jeaneane Garofalo - Metascore = 46

"Uncertainty," starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Olivia Thirlby - Metascore = 46

"Women in Trouble," starring Marley Shelton, Josh Brolin and Simon Baker- Metascore = 43

"Oh My God," starring Hugh Jackman, Seal, Ringo Starr and David Copperfield - Metascore = 32

 

=Metascores range from 0-100, with higher scores indicating better overall reviews, and lower scores indicating less favorable reviews from critics. Various ranges of Metascore are also identified by different colors, so you can tell at a glance how critics felt: generally, green scores (61-100) indicate favorable reviews, yellow scores (40 - 60) denote mixed reviews, and red scores (0-39) are used for unfavorable reviews.

 

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