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METACRITIC ANNOUNCES METASCORES® FOR MOVIES OPENING THIS WEEK

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Highly Anticipated “Toy Story 3” Starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen Receives a Metascore of 90
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18— Metacritic (www.metacritic.com), the Web’s most robust roundup of entertainment reviews and a property of CBS Interactive, today announced its Metascores® for the week’s opening movies as of Friday, June 18 at 11:00 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:
“Toy Story 3,” starring Tom Hanks – Metascore = 90
“Jonah Hex,” starring Josh Brolin – Metascore = 34
Limited Releases:
“45365,” directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross – Metascore = 90
“I Am Love,” starring Tilda Swinton – Metascore = 79
“Stonewall Uprising,” directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner – Metascore = 75
“Cyrus,” starring Jonah Hill and Marisa Tomei – Metascore = 72
“Let It Rain,” directed by Agnes Jaoui – Metascore = 69
“8: The Mormon Proposition,” directed by Reed Cowan and Steven Greenstreet – Metascore = 54
“Wah Do Dem,” directed by Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner – Metascore = 53
“The Killer Inside Me,” starring Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba – Metascore = 53


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.
The Metascore is considered a weighted average because Metacritic assigns more significance (or weight) to some critics and publications than to others based on the overall stature and quality of those critics and publications. In addition to critical reviews, entertainment enthusiasts can also voice their opinions by submitting their own ratings and reviews. By providing a weighted Metascore and an average consumer score for each release, Metacritic helps consumers make informed decisions about how to spend their entertainment dollars and time.
About Metacritic
Called “…the Web’s best film review site” by Entertainment Weekly, Metacritic provides access to and summarizes the vast amount of entertainment criticism available online for film, video/DVD, music, games and television. With the belief that multiple opinions are better than one, Metacritic launched in January 2001 and has remained true to its goal to help people make an informed decision about how to spend their money on the many entertainment options available today.
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