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Agrees with the Tomatometer 93% of the time.

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T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
97%	Paul Williams Still Alive (2012)	" What makes Paul Williams Still Alive successful is the relationship between Kessler and Williams." — NPR Posted Oct 23, 2012
93%	Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012)	" It remains a story at all times - there's a moment at a book signing that will give you a big smile and goosebumps - and it keeps throwing great things to look at up on the screen." — NPR Posted Oct 15, 2012
98%	Brooklyn Castle (2012)	" It would be easy for this film to be a very obvious, very shallow story in which the moral is that even kids from the worst possible circumstances can succeed. That's not what it's about." — NPR Posted Oct 15, 2012
100%	The Waiting Room (2012)	" The Waiting Room is often dryly funny; it's very tense at times; it's emotional, and it's not didactic, which it easily could have been. It is frustrating, to be sure, but that's sort of the point." — NPR Posted Oct 3, 2012
42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" There's nothing to "get." There really isn't. It's a story about a troubled relationship that, for me, ultimately chokes on its own self-conscious flourishes." — NPR Posted Sep 12, 2012
——	Jayne Mansfield's Car ()	" The whole is oddly unsatisfying and the film feels slow." — NPR Posted Sep 11, 2012
——	Mr. Pip ()	" Know what you're in for, because what you're in for is difficult." — NPR Posted Sep 11, 2012
86%	The Master (2012)	" Gorgeous to look at and an absolute feast of strong and interesting acting." — NPR Posted Sep 11, 2012
57%	Thanks For Sharing (2013)	" I was pleasantly surprised." — NPR Posted Sep 10, 2012
38%	Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)	" It appears that something magical is going to happen. But then it doesn't. It's all setting and no story, all beauty and no humanity ..." — NPR Posted Sep 10, 2012
55%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" By the end, it all seems to have been a lot of noise and running for nothing except the ultimate lesson that if journalists like the people they're reporting on, they owe them the favor of not doing journalism. Ta-da!" — NPR Posted Sep 10, 2012
88%	Much Ado About Nothing (2013)	" A project this simple would be nowhere without the actors, and Whedon gets fine work out of just about everybody." — NPR Posted Sep 10, 2012
56%	Love, Marilyn (2012)	" I wanted to like this project more than I did; it's such an interesting idea and such a fine lineup of actresses." — NPR Posted Sep 9, 2012
79%	A Late Quartet (2012)	" Ultimately, while the performances are very good, the script could have stood a little more restraint." — NPR Posted Sep 9, 2012
——	How To Make Money Selling Drugs ()	" An ambitious, creative attempt to talk in a single film about everything from the disparate treatment of black and white dealers to the influence of asset forfeiture on law enforcement strategies to the devastation of Mexico's drug war." — NPR Posted Sep 9, 2012
84%	What Maisie Knew (2013)	" Whether or not there is story plausibility here, there is an emotional integrity to every reaction Maisie has to every development." — NPR Posted Sep 9, 2012
93%	The Sapphires (2013)	" At certain moments, the film feels pretty manipulative, but you know why manipulation is popular? Because it is effective." — NPR Posted Sep 9, 2012
94%	The Sessions (2012)	" The Sessions is probably the most lighthearted movie about sex and polio you'll see this year." — NPR Posted Sep 9, 2012
94%	The Central Park Five (2012)	" It's a troubling film, but it's well done and thought-provoking." — NPR Posted Sep 9, 2012
——	Children of Sarajevo ()	" The technique works well here to create the tension and worry that comes from seeing a lead character constantly moving away from the camera." — NPR Posted Sep 7, 2012
45%	On the Road (2012)	" What's ultimately wrong with On The Road is that the film envisions everyone Sal meets as nothing but fodder." — NPR Posted Sep 7, 2012
95%	West of Memphis (2012)	" While West Of Memphis won't surprise anyone who's followed the case, it does play its own role, particularly in illuminating how unsatisfying the end of the story really was." — NPR Posted Sep 7, 2012
82%	De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012)	" It's a marvelous movie, gorgeous and thoughtful and deeply felt." — NPR Posted Sep 7, 2012
48%	Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)	" What dooms Snow White and the Huntsman is ultimately not how over the top it is, but how dull it is." — NPR Posted May 31, 2012
94%	First Position (2012)	" It's a great introduction to the intriguing mix of parents - neurotic, loving, pressuring, calming - who raise great kids who do great things." — NPR Posted May 3, 2012
50%	Mirror Mirror (2012)	" It's a clever, luscious-looking fairy tale you really can take kids to - no allegedly family-friendly snot-and-fart humor here - and a bundle of high style and sharp wit and terrific performances for yourself." — NPR Posted Mar 29, 2012
7%	New Year's Eve (2011)	" The only entertaining way to watch New Year's Eve is as a cruel experiment in which performers stranded with absolutely no script support are forced to subsist on pure presence, which quickly becomes a blood sport in which only a few survive." — NPR Posted Dec 9, 2011
96%	The Muppets (2011)	" Segel and his team are not Jim Henson -- but they've done justice to the lovers and the dreamers." — NPR Posted Nov 23, 2011
24%	Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)	" Romanticizing an intimate relationship that leaves bruises and scars is a particularly terrible idea in a film aimed at girls. Talking about this is tiresome, but then so is putting it in the movie." — NPR Posted Nov 17, 2011
60%	Real Steel (2011)	" Real Steel is ridiculous, but it is not dispiriting. If you're going to make this movie, it should be made just this way, with commitment, verve and a complete disregard for physics, robotics and environmentalism." — NPR Posted Oct 6, 2011
47%	Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules (2011)	" For the most part this is a collection of set pieces that movies have served up many, many times before." — NPR Posted Mar 24, 2011
72%	Paul (2011)	" A good-hearted, funny movie." — NPR Posted Mar 18, 2011

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