Can you read facial expressions?

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Some facial expressions are easy to identify, like happyness or crying. I usually look ath they mouth, and it's hard to identify fake smiles, sadness or mild surprise, but voice tone/volume helps to identify anger.
I agree with ZombieBrideXD: body language (specially involuntary gestures) is hard to anderstand.

I can barely read them in these online tests where you can watch it again and again for 5 min and still manage to get it wrong.

And in real life where it happens in a blink of an eye, and so much other stuff going on at the same time, other people, noise.

Just wont happen for me.

I generally can read facial expressions, but only if they're brought to my attention somehow. I generally catch expressions in TV and movies because they make up a good part of the story. Cartoony expressions are easier to read. In real life, I won't always notice an expression, and I might have a delay in figuring out what the expression meant.

And just because I have an idea of what an expression means, doesn't mean I can find the right word(s) to describe it.

I read faces pretty well and I definately pick up a lot, but the meaning of it often passes me by, or my understanding is so delayed, that I am out of the game, so to speak.
I do think, that I miss many micro-expressions, and often, when non verbal signaling between others is going on, I am the only one present, who don´t get it. Man, I´ve felt left out many times.
Not too long ago, I thought: "Why do people not look at me, when speaking?" until I discovered, that it is me, who don´t look them in the eye.

I can read happiness (smiles) and sadness on people's faces.

I can read anger, surprise and fear only if they're very obvious.

I learned how to identify a real smile vs a fake smile, but only a few years ago after reading an article about it.

Some emotions I can tell, but it's taken me a long time to learn them. Others I have no clue.

I still look at other people(the ones I care about) to see that if I want to laugh, and they're laughing, then I can laugh. Other people who are less important to me, or I don't care about, I laugh anyway, even if it may be inappropriate.

It depends on how well I know the person. I have a hard time classifying expressions unless they're on an extreme end for most people. With people I've spent more time with, I kind of make a catalog of their expressions and the reactions that went with it. It's pretty basic, but it helps me approach them in a manner more proper to their mood at the time.

Oh yeah, Each person I deal with is different and it's definitely not across the board, when it comes to figuring out one person vs others. I'm way better at the emotion reads with friends vs people off the street, but I still mess up.

This. I have a much easier time with people I know well, although I still have to remind myself to take the time to figure out what they may be feeling.

When it comes to most people, I have to really try. So, I'll be happily going along my merry way in a conversation, when I suddenly notice, "Hm, they didn't respond to that they way I'd thought they would." So I take the time to read facial expression, see the angle of their eyebrows, the look around their eyes, and think, "Whoops! That's why--they're getting bored/upset/something."

I have a hard time with some people, who just look perpetually upset. Maybe it's something about how they do their eyebrows, or just that their "set" facial expression seems more negative when I try to figure it out. So, even if someone like that seems to be trying to get across that they're happy, I still feel like they are mad or upset with me, because I can't get past what I've managed to decode in how they look to get to how they are actually feeling.