How to Build a Sturdy Foxhole

This wikiHow article explains how to build a foxhole as “a strong defensive fighting position.” Metacritic provides attractive needlepoint blurbs for furnishing it.

• 100 – “a nonchalant masterpiece” — Stephanie Zacharek, Salon
• 100 – “virtuoso tomfoolery” — Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
• 100 – “a marvel to behold” — Scott Foundas, Village Voice
• 90 – “Fox is a visual delight” — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter
• 90 – “endlessly enchanting” — David Edelstein, New York Magazine
• 80 – “silly, hilarious and oddly profound” — Ian Nathan, Empire
• 80 – “both precious and rough-hewn” — Todd McCarthy, Variety

7 out of 8 scores above 80.
Reviews aren’t everything, but this is how filmmakers like to see them stack up.

[Note: Zacharek’s review hasn’t been officially ranked on metacritic yet, but if it’s not a 100 tomorrow I’ll sign up for reading lessons.]

[UPDATE 2: Here’s an interesting development we don’t see every week. Since last night’s reviews first appeared on metacritic — two of the scores have been adjusted upward. Scott Foundas’ and Sheri Linden’s reviews have both jumped 10 points, from 90 to 100, and from 80 to 90, respectively. One has to assume that it was the critic himself who asked for the numerical score to be fixed. Looks like we’re seeing a rare situation when critics don’t want to be perceived as underestimating a movie. They love it, and they want to be sure we know how much they love it.]