All major November-December movies (wide releases, movies with 100+ reviews) are ranked by Tomatometer score as they arrive in theaters.
Playing for Keeps (2012)
4%
Adjusted Score: 6.124%
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Critics Consensus: Witless, unfocused, and arguably misogynistic, Playing for Keeps is a dispiriting, lowest-common-denominator Hollywood rom-com.
Synopsis: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Dennis Quaid star in Playing for Keeps, a romantic comedy about a charming,...
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Directed By:
Gabriele Muccino
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Red Dawn (2012)
12%
Adjusted Score: 15.872%
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Critics Consensus: The rebooted Red Dawn lacks the original's topicality, but at least pays tribute in delivering the same short shrift to character development and general logic.
Synopsis: In Red Dawn, a city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky - shockingly, the U.S. has been...
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Parental Guidance (2012)
18%
Adjusted Score: 20.124%
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Critics Consensus: Parental Guidance is sweet but milquetoast, an inoffensive trifle that's blandly predictable.
Synopsis: Old school grandfather Artie (Billy Crystal), who is accustomed to calling the shots, meets his match when he and his eager-to-please wife Diane...
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Directed By:
Andy Fickman
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The Guilt Trip (2012)
38%
Adjusted Score: 41.463%
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Critics Consensus: Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand have enough chemistry to drive a solidly assembled comedy; unfortunately, The Guilt Trip has a lemon of a script and is perilously low on comedic fuel.
Synopsis: An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
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Directed By:
Anne Fletcher
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
37%
Adjusted Score: 41.913%
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Critics Consensus: Though bolstered by a thoroughly charming performance by Bill Murray in the central role, Hyde Park on Hudson is an FDR biopic that lets down both its audience and its subject.
Synopsis: In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) host the King and Queen of England (Samuel West...
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Directed By:
Roger Michell
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The Collection (2012)
35%
Adjusted Score: 35.785%
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Critics Consensus: The Collection offers more grisly thrills and twisted humor than its predecessor; in other words, fun for genre fans, but unpleasant for anyone else.
Synopsis: When Elena's (Emma Fitzpatrick) friends take her to a secret party at an undisclosed location, she never imagined she would become the latest victim...
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Directed By:
Marcus Dunstan
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Promised Land (2012)
51%
Adjusted Score: 55.355%
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Critics Consensus: The earnest and well-intentioned Promised Land sports a likable cast, but it also suffers from oversimplified characterizations and a frustrating final act.
Synopsis: Promised Land is the new contemporary drama directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk). Matt Damon plays Steve Butler, an ace corporate...
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Directed By:
Gus Van Sant
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)
48%
Adjusted Score: 53.62%
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Critics Consensus: It's the most entertaining Twilight, but that's not enough to make Breaking Dawn Part 2 worth watching for filmgoers who don't already count themselves among the franchise converts.
Synopsis: The astonishing conclusion to the series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2, illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding...
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Directed By:
Bill Condon
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The Man With the Iron Fists (2012)
49%
Adjusted Score: 51.124%
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Critics Consensus: Messy kung-fu homage The Man with the Iron Fists demonstrates a slavish affection for the genre it mimics, for better or worse.
Synopsis: Making his debut as a big-screen director and leading man, RZA-alongside a stellar international cast led by Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu-tells the epic...
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Directed By:
RZA
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This is 40 (2012)
52%
Adjusted Score: 58.624%
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Critics Consensus: Judd Apatow definitely delivers funny and perceptive scenes in This is 40, even if they are buried in aimless self-indulgence.
Synopsis: Writer/director/producer Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Funny People) brings audiences This Is 40, an original comedy that expands upon the...
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Directed By:
Judd Apatow
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Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)
47%
Adjusted Score: 47.599%
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Critics Consensus:
Synopsis: From the big top to the big screen, visionary filmmaker James Cameron and director Andrew Adamson (Shrek, Narnia) invite you and your family on an all...
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Directed By:
Andrew Adamson
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Jack Reacher (2012)
61%
Adjusted Score: 66.248%
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Critics Consensus: Jack Reacher is an above-average crime thriller with a smoothly charismatic performance from Tom Cruise.
Synopsis: Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one...
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Directed By:
Christopher McQuarrie
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Anna Karenina (2012)
64%
Adjusted Score: 69.545%
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Critics Consensus: Joe Wright's energetic adaptation of Tolstoy's classic romance is a bold, visually stylized work -- for both better and worse.
Synopsis: The third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with acclaimed director Joe Wright, following the award-winning box office successes...
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Directed By:
Joe Wright
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
65%
Adjusted Score: 73.93%
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Critics Consensus: Peter Jackson's return to Middle-earth is an earnest, visually resplendent trip, but the film's deliberate pace robs the material of some of its majesty.
Synopsis: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor,...
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Directed By:
Peter Jackson
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Hitchcock (2012)
63%
Adjusted Score: 69.178%
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Critics Consensus: Though it suffers from tonal inconsistency and a lack of truly insightful retrospection, Hitchcock is elevated by inspired performances from its two distinguished leads.
Synopsis: HITCHCOCK is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville....
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Directed By:
Sacha Gervasi
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Les Misérables (2012)
70%
Adjusted Score: 77.405%
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Critics Consensus: Impeccably mounted but occasionally bombastic, Les Misérables largely succeeds thanks to bravura performances from its distinguished cast.
Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice...
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Directed By:
Tom Hooper
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Rise of the Guardians (2012)
74%
Adjusted Score: 78.393%
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Critics Consensus: A sort of Avengers for the elementary school set, Rise of the Guardians is wonderfully animated and briskly paced, but it's only so-so in the storytelling department.
Synopsis: Rise of the Guardians is an epic adventure that tells the story of a group of heroes - each with extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as...
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Directed By:
Peter Ramsey
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Killing Them Softly (2012)
75%
Adjusted Score: 81.81%
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Critics Consensus: Killing Them Softly is a darkly comic, visceral thriller that doubles as a cautionary tale on capitalism, whose message is delivered with sledgehammer force.
Synopsis: Three dumb guys who think they're smart rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. Brad Pitt plays the enforcer...
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Directed By:
Andrew Dominik
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Flight (2012)
78%
Adjusted Score: 85.07%
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Critics Consensus: Robert Zemeckis makes a triumphant return to live-action cinema with Flight, a thoughtful and provocative character study propelled by a compelling performance from Denzel Washington.
Synopsis: In this action-packed mystery thriller, Academy Award winner, Denzel Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot, who miraculously...
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Directed By:
Robert Zemeckis
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The Impossible (2012)
81%
Adjusted Score: 86.769%
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Critics Consensus: The screenplay isn't quite as powerful as the direction or the acting, but with such an astonishing real-life story at its center, The Impossible is never less than compelling.
Synopsis: Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of...
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Directed By:
Juan Antonio Bayona
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De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012)
82%
Adjusted Score: 86.764%
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Critics Consensus:
Synopsis: A struggling single father helps a beautiful whale trainer recover her will to live following a terrible accident that leaves her confined to a...
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Directed By:
Jacques Audiard
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Wreck-it Ralph (2012)
86%
Adjusted Score: 91.099%
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Critics Consensus: Equally entertaining for both kids and parents old enough to catch the references, Wreck-It Ralph is a clever, colorful adventure built on familiar themes and joyful nostalgia.
Synopsis: Ralph (John C. Reilly) is tired of being overshadowed by Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer), the "good guy" star of their game who always gets to save the...
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Directed By:
Rich Moore
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Django Unchained (2012)
88%
Adjusted Score: 96.111%
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Critics Consensus: Bold, bloody, and stylistically daring, Django Unchained is another incendiary masterpiece from Quentin Tarantino.
Synopsis: Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners...
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Directed By:
Quentin Tarantino
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Life of Pi (2012)
87%
Adjusted Score: 94.368%
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Critics Consensus: A 3D adaptation of a supposedly "unfilmable" book, Ang Lee's Life of Pi achieves the near impossible -- it's an astonishing technical achievement that's also emotionally rewarding.
Synopsis: Director Ang Lee creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of...
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Directed By:
Ang Lee
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Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
92%
Adjusted Score: 99.516%
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Critics Consensus: Silver Linings Playbook walks a tricky thematic tightrope, but David O. Russell's sensitive direction and some sharp work from a talented cast gives it true balance.
Synopsis: Life doesn't always go according to plan. Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything -- his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself...
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Directed By:
David O. Russell
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Lincoln (2012)
89%
Adjusted Score: 97.186%
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Critics Consensus: Daniel Day-Lewis characteristically delivers in this witty, dignified portrait that immerses the audience in its world and entertains even as it informs.
Synopsis: Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a...
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Directed By:
Steven Spielberg
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Skyfall (2012)
92%
Adjusted Score: 101.971%
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Critics Consensus: Sam Mendes brings Bond surging back with a smart, sexy, riveting action thriller that qualifies as one of the best 007 films to date.
Synopsis: In Skyfall, Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat,...
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Directed By:
Sam Mendes
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
93%
Adjusted Score: 101.409%
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Critics Consensus: Gripping, suspenseful, and brilliantly crafted, Zero Dark Thirty dramatizes the hunt for Osama bin Laden with intelligence and an eye for detail.
Synopsis: For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find...
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Directed By:
Kathryn Bigelow
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