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Film critics are falling all over themselves — and not for the last spoonful of stuffing at the holiday buffet. Reviewers have come out in force in support of this week’s new movies, with nearly across-the-board raves not only for the limited-release silent film “The Artist” but also for the mass-appeal family films “Hugo,” “The Muppets” and “Arthur Christmas.”

According to averages of the three leading movie review aggregation sites — Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and Movie Review Intelligence — the best-reviewed of the PG-rated movies is Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo,” a 3-D live-action drama adapted with screenwriter John Logan from the best-selling novel “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.” Rotten Tomatoes assigned “Hugo” an average score of 96, Metacritic gave it an 84 and Movie Review Intelligence called it an 87.5, for an average score from the three sites of 89.2.