Metacritic and Other High Scorers

It’s time to look again at how the films are stacking up, critics-wise vis-a-vis the Oscar race.

Current High Scores

1	35 Shots of Rum	96
2	Hurt Locker, The	94
3	Still Walking	89
4	Goodbye Solo	89
5	Up	88
6	Ponyo	86
7	Beaches of Agnes, The	86
8	In the Loop	83
9	Star Trek	83
10	U2 3D	83

Of these films, The Hurt Locker, Up and Ponyo are probably Oscar-bound, though In the Loop most definitely should be (I don’t think enough people will see it, unfortunately, but will catch up with it five years down the road).

The Broadcast Film Critics have it like:

The Hurt Locker – 93
Inglourious Basters – 91
A Serious Man – 88

But the BFCA have a difficult site to navigate.

Rotten Tomatoes is too all over the place to figure out anymore. And some of the films haven’t even opened yet so their score is still fluid and nowhere near fixed. ¬†But I pulled out a few high scorers:

The Hurt Locker – 98%
Up – 97%
District 9 – 90%
Star Trek – 95%
In the Loop – 94%
Ponyo – 91%
An Education – 89%
Inglourious Basters – 88%
500 Days of Summer – 87%
Bright Star – 84%