1. Do herói fragilizado e patético ao fascinante vilăo, passando pela fotografia inesquecível, a trilha surpreendente e uma Viena inigualável, o filme é simplesmente perfeito.
2. Welles gives Harry a mask of irony that turns all moral judgment back on itself. He turns a mass murderer into a wry rogue, and makes his villainy all the more horrifying because we rather like him.
3. This movie is a mishmash of many different talents coming together in a way that seems magical.
4. Each dimension of the film's partnerships is magnificent.
5. This moody thriller about love & friendship, loyalty & betrayal and honesty and greed is a haunting tale whose images remain long after the film has concluded.
6. Reed ends film with the one of the longest but most powerful shots in the history of cinema.
7. A classic.
8. ...one of the most robust and intelligent thrillers ever made, an incredibly effective mood piece, and a model of Old School craftsmanship and polish.
9. If The Third Man is a tragedy, it isn't just the tragedy of a hobbled city, scribbled with ruins and parsed into zones of occupation that can't communicate and don't cooperate.
10. Greene's story and screenplay, which he accurately described as "a comic thriller," is a gift that keeps on giving, with patter that's never less than brilliant. [Criterion Blu-ray]

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This atmospheric thriller is one of the undisputed masterpieces of cinema, and boasts iconic performances from Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.


1. Who wouldn't want Kevin Costner as their bodyguard? And Whitney can sing!
2. Shows how our lives are often throttled by the emotions of fear and desire.
3. Two long hours and 10 minutes after this tale begins, Rachel and Frank seem no closer than seatmates on a long bus trip.
4. The relationship between Houston and Costner is mighty strange one, albeit profoundly problematic.
5. Why can't the real Oscars be like this?
6. Should have been a perfect star vehicle for Whitney Houston, but the vehicle is a lemon.
7. It's not that it's entirely bad. I liked some of the music and Whitney Houston's singing.
8. hilarious camp artifact
9. You'll get the most bang for your entertainment buck by simply buying the soundtrack. A rental of the DVD is strictly optional.
10. The thriller aspect of The Bodyguard works, but the romance does not.
What is the consensus?

The Bodyguard is a cheesy, melodramatic potboiler with occasional moments of electricity from Whitney Houston.


The critic consesnsus is: Although not terrible, the sluggishly paced Insurrection plays like an extended episode of the TV series.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. The problem with Insurrection [isn't] that it's like a two-part episode. The problem is that it's like a one-part episode that was more than doubled in length without having nearly enough drama.
2. Taken as a whole the movie is fun even if it does contain several long, dull passages.
3. An appealing millennial throwback to the hippie dream that is part and parcel of Star Trek's utopian ethos.
4. You don't need to be a Trekkie to enjoy the trip, as long as you're young enough at heart to enjoy adventure wherever you find it.
5. Fun for most folks, heaven for Trekkers.
6. Stewart looks great as usual and is impeccable in his familiar role, but most of the other principals were seriously underused.
7. The plot feels like something dug out of an old pile of Next Generation scripts, with a fuzzy focus on the wonderment of newfound youth.
8. This is a good deal more than just another sci-fi movie.
9. There are some nice moments early on.
10. Nothing more than a glorified episode.


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Them is more suspenseful than gory; there's little blood, but the tension gradually builds to a nail-biting level - an impressive feat, considering the movie is essentially one long chase.


1. ...Steve Miner is no Carpenter.
2. ...a welcome resurrection for which fans will undoubtedly be grateful.
3. Nothing more than a dull retread of worn-out cliches, buoyed only by the much-anticipated return of a familiar face.
4. Halloween: Twenty Years Later has forgotten the wellspring from which it flows.
5. I'm currently stuck watching the revival of a movie form that appalled me the first time around, then disappeared from view after a torrent of thoughtless re-workings that resembled bloody tape loops.
6. If you're a Halloween fan, you're probably over 30, and this film will suit you--you need your sleep.
7. I thought the original Halloween was overrated, the 2 or three cheapie sequels I've seen were even worse, and this new entry is still crap.
8. The biggest mystery about Halloween: H20 is why the filmmakers bothered to send it to theaters.
9. The showdown is grueling, long, with too many climaxes and improbable events, but Laurie's up for it. And that's what you love about her. She does not quit. She's bound and determined to decapitate his ass.
10. Taken as a sequel to Halloween, this is just above average; taken as a sequel to Halloween Two, which is where most of its backstory comes from, it looks terrific.
What is the consensus?

Halloween: H2O is the best of the many sequels, yet still pales in comparison to the original Halloween.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Curtis and Lohan shine in their roles, bringing layers of comedy, drama, romance and, yes, sentiment just when needed most.
2. Freaky Friday may be insubstantial, but what's there is remarkably watchable.
3. No Academy Awards here, but thanks largely to Jamie Lee Curtis it provides a good time.
4. Extremely enjoyable, sharply scripted family comedy with superb comic performances.
5. It's cute, and Jamie Lee Curtis is wonderful as always, but this Disney remake just isn't funny enough. Take your family, not your critical sensibilities.
6. Updated and overly sexed, this remake is heavy on the set-up and light on laughs.
7. A funny and energetic body-swap comedy, with a nicely warm and sympathetic approach.
8. Despite the awful history of parent/child switching movies, Freaky Friday strikes gold with funny, first-rate performances from Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan.
9. Aside from the awkwardness of having the Lohan-aged boy interest fall for her in Curtis' appearance, Freaky Friday remains a squeaky-clean generic romp...
10. It's a conventional but pleasantly cosy remake of the 1976 Jodie Foster body-swap comedy. And in the oldest tradition of Disney moviemaking, you can be sure of a few life lessons thrown in between the laughs.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan charm in Mark Waters' nicely pitched -- and Disney's second -- remake of the 1976 hit.


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[Byrkit's] premise has Buńuelian potential, but too often he settles for the shocks of a Twilight Zone episode.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. If one can continue to see a work such as this 35 years later and still remain entranced by its spectacle and its drama, then surely, that is a classic indeed.
2. [It] remains one of the most intelligent, handsome, and influential of all war epics.
3. Riveting from beginning to end, featuring stellar performances, amazing cinematography, and a story without a trace of fat, the film does everything an epic is supposed to do -- and more.
4. Elegant and literate.
5. Approach it from whatever angle you like, performances, script, cinematography, score; David Lean's sweeping biography of T.E. Lawrence is unarguably magnificent.
6. The only way to properly see Lean's overstuffed epic is on the big screen, the better to appreciate the glorious desert vistas, Maurice Jarre's soaring score and the glowing performance by then-unknown Peter O'Toole as a messianic T.E. Lawrence.
7. The passage of time has only proved how difficult it is to run ideas, history, characterisation and landscape in harness on this sort of scale.
8. Lean's epic biography of the enigmatic and complex British hero is visually mesmerizing, even if it omits crucial aspects of Lawrence's life, and it boasts a radical, riveting performance from Peter O'Toole.
9. A gorgeous epic with an outstanding performance from Peter O'Toole.
10. One of the rare instances of "Oscars" ending in right hands.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

The epic of all epics, Lawrence of Arabia cements director David Lean's status in the filmmaking pantheon with nearly four hours of grand scope, brilliant performances, and beautiful cinematography.


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Reheats old material and serves it as if it were bold and original.


1. To dismiss an artist the caliber of Spielberg solely on the accusation of treacly sentimentalism is to dismiss the great American poets of our history.
2. When a movie has stuck around for this long, you know there's something there. It's that good.
3. Definitely worth seeing in the theater whether you've seen it before or not.
4. A film that connects so beautifully to our sense of wonder and joy.
5. An astonishingly warm and enjoyable family film full of genuine sweetness and heart.
6. For the most part, however, Spielberg and Mathison have their priorities straight.
7. It remains a timeless classic: it blew my mind when I saw it as a kid, and watching it again 20 years later, I still adored it.
8. One of the most popular movies ever made.
9. An uplifting tale appealing to child inside us all.
10. This is Spielberg's masterpiece, a near perfect film directed with astonishing skill and unafraid to get sentimental ... without crossing the line into syrup.

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Playing as both an exciting sci-fi adventure and a remarkable portrait of childhood, Steven Spielberg's touching tale of a homesick alien remains a piece of movie magic for young and old.


The critic consesnsus is: Filled with shrill gags and middling slapstick, College Road Trip is woefully short on comic imagination.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. Even Donny Osmond's sparkling teeth seem a little dim compared with the unsullied gleam the movie presents as real life.
2. College Road Trip is nearly as hellish as taking a long trip with a bus full of karaoke-happy tourists. Actually, that's one of the gags.
3. The whole project is a cloying, artificial mess. The slapstick comedy doesn't bite, and the formulaic sentimentality doesn't grip. This is strictly phi beta crappa.
4. There's a nice pro-education theme struggling to emerge from oceans of clumsy humor here, so let's be generous and say the movie deserves about a C-minus.
5. Eyes popping and mouths agape, Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symoné mug their way through College Road Trip as if it were a silent movie -- which, come to think of it, would have been a lot less irritating.
6. I don't know if there are more than three or four laughs here, not even for devoted pre-teen fans of Raven's cable show.
7. When the cutest and most amusing thing in a movie is a pet pig on caffeine, you know you're in trouble.
8. College Road Trip is better than most Martin Lawrence movies -- much as strep throat is better than malaria.
9. This shrill, chaotic, mass-market drivel is the kind of absent-minded family film that gives thoughtful, worthwhile family films a bad name.
10. College Road Trip is at its best when it drops any pretense of plot for sheer goof, and at its worst when Lawrence manages to out-ham even his porky four-legged costar.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Word is that Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz is planning to remake his latest film, Terribly Happy, in English. There's not much room for improvement.
2. Moves swiftly and offers just enough creepiness and conflict to keep things interesting.
3. ...has a lot in common with David Lynch's "Blue Velvet."
4. Genz creates a distinctive look and feel in the film. The town is drab, the people wrung out, and the moments of passion are smoothed back down into the tired routine.
5. We can spot every single plot turn coming across the tidelands from five kilometers away. Certainly someone deserves to get shot.
6. Terribly Happy, directed by Henrick Ruben Genz, is all moodiness, midnight black comedy and noir mystery.
7. It may not sound funny, but there's a bleakly comic air about the story, and a bit of surrealism, suggesting the most caustic side of the Coen brothers.
8. The movie is so artfully constructed that it gives you the sweats right up to the end.
9. A polished, entertaining affair that spins off in unexpected directions.
10. A taut, intriguing and refreshingly well-crafted crime thriller brimming with many clever twists and turns.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Led by Henrik Ruben Ganz's assured direction, this knotty Danish noir thriller steers audiences into some nicely unexpected territory.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. This story of a country boy who goes to the big city and uses his brawn to make his way is so slow it's almost inert.
2. Rock musician-turned-director Dito Montiel fails to make much of a fist with his second feature, Fighting, though he deserves points for trying to add some contemporary New York City grit.
3. B movie w/ a strong right hook. Other strong hooks include Terrance Howard and Luis Guzman. Subtle, Channing Tatum delievers a solid performance as well (dancer to figher).
4. They should have thrown in the towel before it even began.
5. A film that could only possibly entertain two very specific groups of people--those who want to watch Channing Tatum and those who want to watch Channing Tatum get punched in the face repeatedly
6. Replacing a dance off with bloody knuckles is just bad movie making.
7. The first rule of Fighting is: You don't talk about Fighting. So please just pretend you can hear me giggling derisively instead.
8. Parental Content Review
9. I think the screenplay is punchdrunk.
10. I am trying to pinpoint just when I realized how terrible this film really was. It could have been the fact that it hit a dead end around twenty minutes in.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Though Fighting has a likable lead performer, and the fight scenes are impressive, the paper-thin plot ultimately unravels.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "passion of the christ".

1. The basic message of Christianity -- love your brother -- is obscured under torrents of blood to the point of benumbing the audience.
2. Gravely intense and the work of a man as deeply committed to his subject as one could hope for or, for that matter, want.
3. The Passion of the Christ is the Jesus story that's been begging to get made since Charlie Heston kicked off his robes and sandals.
4. Whether you enjoy the film or not, it is undeniably something that will generate good discussion and that makes it worth checking out.
5. It's almost impossible not to be moved by Jim Caviezel's vulnerability as Christ, even if the idea that he is no 'mere' man is never in doubt.
6. Hey, I don't believe it literally, but it is a movie, after all -- it's a great story, too, certainly as compelling as "Dead Man Walking."
7. Gibson turns the thing into a bloody shock spectacle; he implicates the viewers like the Jews who watched the crucifixion and beatings as entertainment.
8. I found the film more numbing than moving, as if the transformation it charted was not from human to divine, but from man to carcass.
9. And any power these explicit scenes have is in any case undermined by the absurd tweeness of the final moments.
10. It's a head-bashing experience, by turns exhausting, exhilarating, and infuriating.


1. What's really scary about this movie is somebody screened it and decided it was ready for a live viewing audience. Shudder.
2. There are some clever bits in it here and there, but it is not nearly as clever or as witty as Scream, or Young Frankenstein, two of the top horror spoofs.
3. How to review a critic-proof movie.
4. The rudeness isn't particularly creative and the repeated horror movie jokes wear thin before long, leaving viewers checking their watches and wondering if they can't pick up the pace and bump off a few more victims a bit more quickly.
5. The film just uses the scattershot approach to parody: Throw constant jokes at the screen and some of them will stick.
6. The jokes are frequent but dumb. It's a fun no-brainer night out.
7. There's something exhilarating about a movie that cheerfully defies all respectable standards -- and does it with such wild gusto.
8. did it really require six screenwriters to tack tasteless jokes onto Kevin Williamson's "Scream" screenplay for less than an hour and a half?
9. I am certain someone can make this movie into a credible drinking game...go with a bunch of friends, don't hope for a new watershed in satire, and you'll have an OK time.
10. Would it be asking too much if the hit-and-miss jokes could maybe nudge an inch beyond the obvious?
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Critics say Scary Movie overloads on crudity and grossness to get its laughs.


1. The dark violence of the film (parents, note: Pan's Labyrinth is not for children) is leavened by its invention -- by the way it pushes the limits of reality and fantasy, each world overlapping with the other.
2. Pan succeeds both as a spectacular special-effects fantasy and as a psychological drama, with superb actors.
3. Literally and figuratively marvelous, a rich, daring mix of fantasy and politics.
4. An achievement. Many films with 'split personalities' invest all their creative energy into one aspect of the story, causing the other one to founder and feel obligatory.
5. Like his terrific 2001 The Devil's Backbone, Mexican horrormeister Guillermo del Toro's new movie offers us both real-life and fantastical monsters, and if you know his work, you won't waste time figuring out which to root for.
6. The only part where Pan errs is in its marketing, via a top-of-the-poster blurb that proclaims it a "fairy tale for grown-ups."
7. This morbid, visually stunning fairy tale gives you plenty to think about and plenty to be entertained by.
8. Del Toro's obvious strength here is his forceful vision of a night-time fantasy and his ability to bring that vision to pulsating life.
9. An awesome movie, but not for little kids. At all.
10. The film is the announcement of the complete arrival of a major filmmaker, and we can only hope that the qualities del Toro brings to this work do not get lost in the maze of Hollywood for future films.

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Pan's Labyrinth is Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups, with the horrors of both reality and fantasy blended together into an extraordinary, spellbinding fable.


1. settle down for something wondrous, and wondrously artificial - an hour and a half of proof that the Dream Factory can still squeeze out more than one happy song to sing along.
2. The sunniest, happiest film in the world - and if the under-10 in your life can't appreciate that, it might be time to put them up for adoption.
3. It's never cloying or too knowing. Cynicism and wariness are real world concerns that have no place among the foam and felt.
4. So genial, so joyous, and suffused with such a lip-smacking sweetness, that the occasional pacing issues and subplot hiccups simply don't seem to matter.
5. The most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational comeback fans could have hoped for.
6. Witty, affectionate and charmingly silly.
7. Made absolutely for grown-up fans, this is the Muppets as you fondly remember them: funny, smart and gleefully insane.
8. A film bursting at the seams with sheer, unadulterated joy: watch it, and the world seems just that little bit brighter...
9. invites viewers to become a bit like the dreamer Walter and, in (re)discovering and embracing their inner child (not to mention their inner muppet), to join a fantastic, funny family that never grows old, no matter how times may have changed.
10. Brushing aside decades of nostalgia, this is a whip-smart postmodern romp with a warm heart to boot, and as such, it should please both life-long fans and new initiates to the Muppet universe.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?

Clever, charming, and heartfelt, The Muppets is a welcome big screen return for Jim Henson's lovable creations that will both win new fans and delight longtime devotees.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. The real downfall of the movie is that there's only so much meaningful interplay you can get out of a beachful of slackers and some tanning oil.
2. Not bad, but not really worth the effort.
3. A movie that tries to take us from heaven to hell but winds up leaving us in limbo: exasperated and dumfounded.
4. The Beach is beautiful, everyone has a lovely tan. But it's nothing to write home about.
5. The Beach is the kind of literary rubbish that makes you trace the patterns in the carpet while you're supposed to be watching the screen.
6. The movie is an experience, of a sort they had a name for in the '60s: bummer.
7. The problem here is not acting. It is story.
8. An uneasy blend of tones and styles, a disappointing return to the spotlight by its star and another jumbled effort by its director.
9. Tedious and unsatisfying.
10. A kind of adventure holiday for the MTV generation rather than a cautionary tale of a society that turns in on itself.

Critics say The Beach is unfocused and muddled, a shallow adaptation of the novel it is based on. Points go to the gorgeous cinematography, though.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. A great Cold War re-imagining of Welles' classic tale.
2. The acting was wooden, the romance was blah, and the religious messages tacked on were pathetic.
3. A classic that should be seen by anyone who really likes genre of science fiction in the cinema.
4. For a movie that already succeeded in scaring the Grape Nehi out of every ten-year-old in the audience, how disquieting it must have been for the Cold War-agitated grownups to witness U.S. might, tanks and A-bombs alike, brushed away helpless...
5. peculiarly fifties-bound
6. War of the Worlds is a socko science-fiction feature, as fearsome as a film as was the Orson Welles 1938 radio interpretation of the H.G. Wells novel.
7. Incredibly overrated version of the Wells novel.
8. As the perfect crystallization of 50s ideology the film would be fascinating enough, but the special effects in this 1953 George Pal production also achieve a kind of dark, burnished apocalyptic beauty.
9. Though it's bogged down by a stiff cast, a yawn-inspiring conventional romance, and a sappy religiosity, it remains a landmark in the history of special effects.
10. classic

Though it's dated in spots, The War of the Worlds retains an unnerving power, updating H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi tale to the Cold War era and featuring some of the best special effects of any 1950s film.


The critic consesnsus is: Mary and Max is a lovingly crafted, startlingly inventive piece of animation whose technical craft is equaled by its emotional resonance.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. A deliciously sentimental film whose offbeat sensibility manages to keep it out of the realm of schmaltz.
2. This clay animation feels as if it was written by the early Woody Allen. Actually the genius behind it is Adam Elliot, who wrote, designed and directed this eccentric, wryly funny story.
3. "Mary and Max" dares to be equally funny and sad, making it as bittersweet as Max's favorite chocolate.
4. The universe that is inhabited by Mary and Max is breathtaking, and must have required years of painstaking attention to detail to forge.
5. Animated indie explores unusual friendship, heavy themes.
6. Everyone and everything is bursting with a hyper-real life that is pitched perfectly to the tragi-comic tone of the story.
7. Ultimately, Mary and Max is about correspondence and lack of correspondence, about how our images and fantasies about others fail to match up to what they are like, and about the constitutive gaps and misfirings in any communicational practice.
8. Unapologetically bleak and delivered with dashes of sweetness and sharp wit, Mary and Max deserves notice for being such an unexpected change of pace.
9. The themes are nicely complemented by Elliot's animation style, which is full of wonky cityscapes and misshapen characters, something that gives this oddball story a lovely, tactile, handcrafted feel.
10. Funny, poignant and moving, this quirky and clever film oozes heart and insights into human nature.


1. While "The Kill Team" is well worth watching, the jury's out.
2. Krauss is too responsible to do anything flashy with this material. He tells the story directly and in depth.
3. Krauss's documentary is both solid and scathing, raising more questions that it answers.
4. Is the story of The Kill Team singular? That's the unspoken question that hangs over this award-winning documentary, another artifact from the "war on terror."
5. All is not fair in love and war, but the battlefield can be a place where the lines begin to blur.
6. Explosive and depressing.
7. This is a powerful and effective documentary that exposes facts about the nature of war that the military establishment would rather keep secret. It serves as a reminder about the high levels of corruption in the military.
8. Its extraordinary story can hardly help but involve and outrage.
9. It's a beautiful way to lose faith in humanity.
10. A documentary that leans heavily on a viewer's innate interest in tangled philosophical questions of guilt and corrupted innocence.
What is the consensus?

Urgent, mesmerizing, and infuriating, The Kill Team looks at American foreign policy from a rarely considered perspective.


The critic consesnsus is: A serene, melancholy beauty permeates this meditative portrait of deep friendship and faded glory.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. ...the landscape it maps is as much spiritual as it is physical, and the personal story it tells is inescapably political...
2. Open-ended as it may appear, it has a crushing finality. For all the wool-gathering and guitar-noodling, this road movie is at least as tender as it is ironic.
3. Against a radiant backdrop of decay and rebirth, nothing needs to be said; everything in this lovely film is crystalline.
4. The difference between Old Joy and most other recent indies: it matches its rhythms and visuals to its story, rather than simply telling a story on film.
5. It feels so real it hurts, and it's the perfect antidote to all those movies where all sorts of stuff blows up.
6. On its own terms, as a contemplative tone poem about thirtysomething anxiety, it's lovely and poignant.
7. We're embedded in the dampness of Reichardt's smoky forest, but not for long enough so we're lost like the pair.
8. The movie explores the increasingly coarse line between nostalgia and acceptance for the way things are, without exclamatory revelation and uproarious self-pity. It's Sideways for realists.
9. About [Kelly Reichardt's] directing, after praising her simplicity, one has to praise her daring. To make this film took considerable conviction -- and, for an artist, conviction usually entails courage.
10. Slow moving but ultimately quite touching.


1. It's the opposite of most films about drugs vs. life because it puts life up front.
2. Granik gets a strong performance out of Farmiga, as she does from nearly the whole cast.
3. Quietly devastating.
4. a brave, elegantly filmed, treasure of perseverance
5. This film has an ear for the way moms talk to kids, a sensitivity to drug-sweetened intimacies, and an appreciation of the urgent nuance, not just the comedy, of recovery-speak.
6. A terrifically dark tale.
7. Unlike most movies about addictions, Down to the Bone doesn't follow the usual, comforting three-act structure -- social user develops a problem, user becomes a desperate addict, user finally gets some help.
8. Any sympathy developed for the characters quickly erodes as they continue to not only engage in self-destructive behavior but expose children to it.
9. You'll see relative unknown Farmiga deliver one of those subtle, controlled, humane performances that should win Oscars but never do because the Oscars are a lot of jive.
10. First-time feature director's disciplined objectivity is coupled with humanism in this collaboration with a gifted cast and cinematographer.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?

A vivid portrayal of the effects of drug abuse that avoids cinematic clichés, Down to the Bone is a winning effort that features Vera Farmiga's breakout performance.


1. [A] gross-out classic.
2. Funny, absurd, nightmarishly visceral and -- of course -- deeply serious.
3. Let's start with the fact that we were handed out Ichi barf bags before the film started. Always a good sign.
4. A film of considerable depth, intelligence and accomplishment that marks a new high point of maturity and consistency in its author's work.
5. For those with an appreciation for weirdness, this is an extremist on form.
6. The torture is strictly for kicks, which spoiled this for me, but less skittish viewers may enjoy this as a stylish and tightly wound genre piece.
7. Miiki holds up violence as a virtue, in this nonconformist cartoon-like ode to ultra-violence, sadism and masochism.
8. Ultra-violent action from Japan's leading cult director that plays fast and loose with genre conventions to deliver an innovative -- and frequently revolting -- work of cult Asian cinema.
9. Even hardy gonzo-cinema auds will likely find the hectic pace overstimulating to the point of numbed-out tedium.
10. Hurts so bad, but feels so good.

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Ichi The Killer is a thoroughly shocking gorefest that will surely entertain those with strong stomachs and a penchant for brutal violence.


1. A needed antidote in a cinematic world that offers cheap, sugary cinematic snacks. This is a four-course meal.
2. The Passenger can make one nostalgic -- mostly, for a time when foreign films mattered.
3. The Passenger isn't finally the masterpiece some have made it out to be, but it retains a singular intrigue: It's the first, and probably the last, thriller ever made about depression.
4. Antonioni's 1975 landmark.
5. The film's final seven-minute shot is one of the great denouements in film history.
6. Antonioni's is a bleak, existential take on life, but...the sheer artistry of the director's technique make[s] for an exhilarating film experience.
7. Nicholson deserved the 1975 Oscar for this, not Cuckoo's Nest.
8. It's a movie from the past that still points ahead to the future: a cinematic rite of passage that raptly recalls a time when the world may have been as uncertain as now, but the movies were often lovelier and more daring.
9. Even if one new person is turned on to the works of this brilliant filmmaker, then this film's long, strange trip will have been worth it.
10. The real Antonioni discovery this year is the DVD release of his first feature, Story of a Love Affair, a film noir from 1950.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Antonioni's classic, a tale of lonely, estranged characters on a journey though the mysterious landscapes of identity, shimmers with beauty and uncertainty.


1. It opts for pleasant Christmas fantasy instead of phony sentimentality.
2. A good choice to kick back and enjoy during the holiday season.
3. This is what happens when someone takes what might have been a moderately- entertaining television Christmas special and tries to adapt it for the big screen.
4. Balances the sugar with the spice, which Allen sprinkles on just right.
5. Despite its charms, the movie didn't push over the top into true inspiration.
6. Kids of most ages will be able to follow -- and enjoy -- this comic fantasy.
7. The jokes are mostly funny, the divorced parents stay happily divorced, and we're treated to yet another earnestly dopey performance by the endearing Judge Reinhold.
8. There are enough laughs to make it worth a look for Allen's legion of fans.
9. This is a hip, likable spin on the seasonal icon told with a deft mixture of comedy and sentimentality.
10. While the film breaks no new ground, it offers the kind of simple, well-crafted, family entertainment that used to be a staple of the Disney studio.

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The Santa Clause is utterly undemanding, but it's firmly rooted in the sort of good old-fashioned holiday spirit missing from too many modern yuletide films.


Which movie is the following review about?

Many sins have been committed in the name of religion; End of Days ranks as the latest.


The critic consesnsus is: Funny, quirky, and bittersweet, In Search of a Midnight Kiss is a romantic comedy with a heart and a brain -- and stands as a sharp debut for director Alex Holdridge.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. Obviously heavily influenced by the likes of Swingers and Before Sunrise, it nevertheless manages to find its own voice, combining sentiment with cynicism to create a very modern romantic comedy.
2. Holdridge's film is painfully undermined by its central characters.
3. In looking for L.A.'s historical past amidst its sometimes squalid present, Holdridge has achieved a minor miracle in making the city a romantic backdrop.
4. In Search of a Midnight Kiss gets L.A. like few films do. And writer-director Holdridge understands the aspiring, disappointed but still open-to-anything crowd on the fringes of show business quite persuasively.
5. Notwithstanding its quintessentially indie need to develop character through quirk rather than, y'know, characterisation...the opening fifteen or twenty minutes are actually pretty great.
6. Mumblecore to the core--a loose, quirky, minimal indie.
7. By the end, Holdridge has captured the bittersweet complexities of romance with a wisdom that proves surprisingly seductive.
8. Lightly sweetened and just a touch bitter, the romantic comedy In Search of a Midnight Kiss treads familiar if appealing ground.
9. A well-acted mumblecore romantic dramedy that actually interprets real life rather than just presenting it.
10. How incongruous that while veteran studio heads prepare slates of comic book movies, the slackers behind this $12,000 gem have made one of the most mature films of the year.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "the ides of march".

1. ... the dynamite cast ... smoothes the clichés off the characters.
2. The world of politics provides all the drama-and satiric fodder-any filmmaker could ask for. And even though the public has shown indifference to such movies in recent years, Hollywood keeps making them...
3. Ryan Gosling is astonishing in this thrilling and timely - if also bleak - political allegory, which skilfully reflects Obama-era disappointment and also functions as a concise riff on morality, role models and the dangers of idealism.
4. Ides of March throws up the question of whether America is, despite its progressive rhetoric, an immature democracy in hoc to monstrous priggishness.
5. a cynical political fable for increasingly cynical times
6. The plot is somewhat theatrical, but the stellar cast brings it to life.
7. George Clooney is fast becoming a better film director than film actor (and he's good at that, too).
8. Director Clooney's decision to shoot a majority of the film in close ups pays big dividends. With nothing else to take away your attention, you are focused on every word...every nuance...every hint of false flattery or earnest appreciation.
9. Another Clooney effort that proves he is a better director than actor
10. Never seems quite the film this aggregation of talent suggests it should have been.


1. You don't have to know an arabesque from an alligator handbag to enjoy Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine's loving documentary about the various incarnations of the Ballet Russe.
2. Enacts its drama with a light editorial hand and unavoidable sentimentality.
3. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have done a fine job of locating old footage of the companies -- much in color -- but an even better one of locating the company's old dancers.
4. Ballets Russes, a graceful and fascinating documentary, chronicles the world of dance following the 1929 death of the ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev.
5. The archival footage is so breathtaking, the reminiscences so piquant, that even a stranger to dance can't help but be swept up by this peek into such exquisite, now vanished glamour.
6. A captivating if somewhat conventional documentary.
7. Blessed with a surfeit of archival footage and dozens of marvelous, first-person stories, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a rich, complex portrait of the legendary Russian Ballet.
8. Geller and Goldfine have assembled a vital historical document, covering a cultural era now mostly lost, corrupted imperceptibly but permanently when fledgling ballerinas started dreaming about Broadway and Hollywood instead of Swan Lake.
9. Ballets Russes may not be the greatest dance documentary ever made, but it could well be the most accessible and touching.
10. An electrifying documentary by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine that lovingly and authoritatively brings to life an era of unequaled artistic excitement.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Even if you know little about ballet, there is much to love about this documentary's captivating archival footage and its interviews with elderly former dancers who have much to share.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "une femme de menage".

1. The Housekeeper is wise and subtle in the way it presents its older man. A less interesting movie would make him lustful and self-deceiving, a man who believes his is the secret of eternal youth and virility.
2. You could make a broad comedy from this situation, but director Claude Berri chose the small, quiet route.
3. A movie that feels enjoyable, relaxed and anything but housework.
4. The only thing the movie has going for it is the promise -- never fulfilled -- of sexual titillation.
5. The story doesn't provide enough depth or entertainment to warrant a trip to the art house, wait until you can see it in the comfort of your own messy apartment.
6. Whenever a new character is introduced, the movie heads off in a new direction, and while each direction is a surprise, each ends up being an important part of this portrait of a confused, ultimately curious man.
7. The charms of The Housekeeper are slight, but charms they are.
8. Two very fine performances.
9. Everyone in The Housekeeper has an emotional shield, and director Berri penetrates that shield with warmth, intelligence and a genuine compassion for human tomfoolery.
10. Like Chabrol reconfigured into a mildly droll midlife-crisis tease.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "saraband".

If Saraband appears to be a minor entry in Ingmar Bergman's filmography, it's still an accomplished piece of work from one of cinema's greatest masters.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "charlie st cloud".

Zac Efron gives it his all, but Charlie St. Cloud is too shallow and cloying to offer much more than eye candy for his fans.


Which movie is the following review about?

The horror of the war, and the startling dignity of these mud-spattered soldiers, will doubtless thaw stony hearts. But the drama is as conventional as a ham sandwich.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "raging bull".

Arguably Martin Scorsese's and Robert De Niro's finest film, Raging Bull is often painful to watch, but it's a searing, powerful work about an unsympathetic hero.


The critic consesnsus is: A touching, though somewhat flat, documentary that follows a homogenous class of white Protestant eighth graders as they learn the importance of tolerance by erecting a monument to the 6 million victims of the Holocaust.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. Touching and inspiring.
2. Paper Clips may be so-so moviemaking, but it's great reality.
3. You will never look at the familiar little fasteners the same way again. This is an incredible 87 minutes in a movie theater on several levels.
4. Affectingly documents an example of caring, concerned students and the inspiring educators who lead them.
5. Paper Clips isn't the slickest documentary you'll ever see, or the shrewdest or the most dramatic. But it could be the most moving.
6. A small, heartening slice of life that feels like a crucial step toward something bigger.
7. The project is chronicled eloquently in Paper Clips, a documentary about how a few kids can make a difference, one paper clip at a time.
8. The story becomes more about the collection of the paper clips and less and less about what the paper clips represent.
9. Low-key but inspirational.
10. It's difficult to watch this and not get swept away by the emotion of their journey... It's not a perfect documentary, but it's a very moving one.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Extraordinarily compelling and gripping.
2. A film of clarity, feeling and electric intensity.
3. A movie that finds a new way to get at the dichotomy of the violent yet supposedly religious and of the faith-starved yet militantly agnostic.
4. ... a powerful examination of the decline of civilization as refracted in one tiny corner of the world.
5. The film's title is appropriate. A desperate Catholicism flavors the doomed city.
6. We get the point after the first half hour or so: hope is gone, life is awful, okay, okay, got it.
7. Like a random gang shooting - it leaves a big impression but makes no sense.
8. Medellin displays [its] bi-polar nature through Schroeder's perceptive camera
9. ...a subtle and rigorous examination of the dynamics of power, both personal and political ...like Thomas Mann's Death in Venice transposed into the key of viciousness
10. The message is fine, the film itself is not so fine.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Director Barbet Schroeder presents a bleak, darkly humorous drama about hopeless love in Medellin, Colombia.


1. Helped greatly by excellent performances from both of the film's leads, as well as the rounded supporting cast.
2. The plot is engaging, the cast is exceptional, and Hoblit moves things along in commendably straightforward fashion. Very entertaining.
3. Exhibits many of the genre's common weaknesses, but the fine acting of Edward Norton, Laura Linney and Richard Gere enables us to forgive them.
4. Unfortunately, Primal Fear hasn't aged well; there are wrinkles and pockmarks all over its face.
5. ...a solid drama that's elevated on an all-too-consistent basis by Norton's impressively hypnotic work.
6. Edward Norton became an instant star after making a splashy, Oscar-nominated performance in this well-executed horror thriller.
7. An unfolding mystery in which truth is elusive, and twists are the order of the day...gives Norton a career-making opportunity to strut his stuff. [Blu-ray]
8. its heroes only heroes because they believe in order and not because they're capable of order's championing or restoration.
9. Ed Norton is out of this world in his break-out performance.
10. Memorable for Edward Norton's chilling debut.

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

A straightforward, entertaining thriller with a crackerjack performance by Edward Norton.


1. Why make a movie about the sports-betting industry -- a potentially rich subject for a film -- and spend so little time showing us what goes on behind the scenes?
2. Even Al Pacino can't bellow loud enough to drown out the raging stupidity that courses through Two for the Money, the latest in a lamentable line of movies in which Screaming Al mentors a protege with predictable results.
3. The movie makes a bet that the filmmakers can't cover.
4. Two for the Money could be Exhibit A in a power-point presentation of When Good Movies Go Bad.
5. The plot is predictable and Pacino is cast in a role he can play on autopilot.
6. The movie works as a smart B film.
7. Sports gambling! Big money, big games, big romance, big stars. Double down, all in. Problem is, the game's crooked.
8. Big, loud, glossy and entertaining.
9. Perhaps everyone involved in making this movie can form a new kind of 'anonymous' chapter -- Hackaholics Anonymous, dedicated to conquering that urge to make mediocre films one day at a time.
10. In its second half, Two for the Money drags like an extra-innings game between teams with no chance of reaching the playoffs.
What is the consensus?

Despite its sportsmanlike swagger, Two for the Money's aimless plot isn't worth betting on.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "marine".

1. Low-budget, logic-free action shlock...explosion-laced, fisticuff-heavy, utterly brainless stuff.
2. A big, hilarious, stupid meathead of a movie, destined to be a huge hit on The Violence Channel.
3. This is a Supersize movie: Supersize Guns, Supersize Knives, Supersize Muscles, Supersize Boobs and Supersize Explosions!
4. Harmless, tongue-in-cheek, mayhem-filled fun.
5. The Marine will trigger a strong sense of deja vu for anyone who recalls the slapdash, slam-bang action fare that was standard-issue drive-in fodder during the 1970s.
6. kicks *** at being totally lousy
7. The genius of the film is in its unapologetically obvious crowd-pleasing moments.
8. Such bizarre touches remind one of the appeal of WWE televised bouts.
9. If there ever was a reason why studios don't screen films, this is the Rosetta stone.
10. The Marine proves a poor showcase for the homeboy charisma Cena shows week in and out with the WWE.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. A semi-intriguing abomination, the movie The Cat in the Hat takes a piece of classic childhood Americana and turns it into something garish, dumb, ugly and senseless.
2. All the wild visual textures don't disguise the fact that the film makes little connection with its characters.
3. For enduring this mess/ They should pay us a fee.
4. Almost entirely unrecognizeable as something from the Seuss world.
5. Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is a triumph above all of production design. That's partly because the production design is so good, partly because the movie is so disappointing.
6. The Cat in the Hat proves yet again that the wonderful children's books of Dr. Seuss do not translate to live action.
7. More than anything else, it looks like the prototype for a theme-park ride at Universal Studios.
8. It's not exactly the story you love, but at least it's a story you'll recognize.
9. The film is the kind of betrayal of the book's kooky elegance in which Myers' magical, maniacal talking cat finds it necessary to cough up hair balls.
10. One of the most repulsive kiddie movies ever made.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Filled with double entendres and potty humor, this Cat falls flat.


1. Both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events, and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day, and of the thousands thereafter.
2. Easily stands alongside such throat-clutching classics of cinematic political action as Z and The Battle of Algiers.
3. The moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger long after this film has ended.
4. Bloody Sunday has been rightly compared to movies like Costa-Gavras' Z ... Like them, it doesn't dramatize or reenact history so much as throw us back into it and make us feel it in our bones.
5. Greengrass gives the film a brawling, bruising intimacy that makes the graphic finale hard to watch.
6. Rarely do gunshots elicit such shock. Rarely does violence feel so horrific.
7. It's an extraordinary adrenaline-pumping immersion into historical events, and goes along way to explain the bitterness that has resounded from that day.
8. The film ranks right up there with The Battle of Algiers and Culloden in the convincing pseudodocumentary department.
9. Would that Greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility.
10. A compelling, gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Bloody Sunday powerfully recreates the events of that day with startling immediacy.


1. With the hundreds of gags hurled at you, you'll laugh at more or less of them depending on which side of the bed you woke up on. Rat Race tumbled out of the wrong side for me.
2. I have stared into the abyss of late-summer comedy, and it is called Rat Race.
3. If you like your comedy dumb and exhausting, this flick's for you.
4. Remember the montage in Naked Gun when Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley leave Platoon clutching their guts laughing? That was us, except it was Rat Race!
5. Feels all too much like a tiring run.
6. An overheated, underdone farce.
7. If 'shrill & obnoxious' equalled 'funny', then we'd have something.
8. Very watered down light fluff.
9. One of the most obnoxious and unfunny comedies I have ever seen. Dig out the rat poison.
10. It's not 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World,' but it's mad enough.

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

Rat Race moves from one sight gag to another, but only a handful of them are genuinely funny.


The critic consesnsus is: A gratuitous remake of the 1974 slasher, Black Christmas pumps out the gore and blood with zero creativity, humor, or visual flair.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. Glen Morgan's update of Bob Clark's 1974 slasher flick Black Christmas is an exemplar of how to screw up a modern horror film remake.
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3. Shockingly awful in every way imaginable...
4. this reimagining showcases with encyclopaedic relish just about every slasher convention and variation that has evolved over the last thirty or so years since the original Black Christmas screened.
5. It's hard to get worked up over the fate of characters whose identities remain largely a matter of conjecture.
6. The fans will dig the brief-yet-nasty FX work, but they'll have to slog through a pretty tiresome movie just to get their hands on those nuggets.
7. All setup and no payoff makes this a dull film.
8. A colossal mess, which is not at all as dispiriting as those remakes of classic horror which are just empty, shallow exercises in genre mechanics.
9. Black Christmas works best as a campy deconstruction of the genre than it does as a horror film.
10. Neither horror, nor comedy. It's barely even a movie...


Write a one sentence review of the movie "constantine".

Despite solid production values and an intriguing premise, Constantine lacks the focus of another spiritual shoot-em-up, The Matrix.


1. After empowering its heroine, it demeans her, which kills all the fun
2. By the end, even the beautiful Elisha Cuthbert starts to look repulsive.
3. The best thing about The Girl Next Door is its attitude. The film opts for a straightforward approach to sex - one that teenagers will not only relish, but also appreciate.
4. If The Girl Next Door had been released last year, it could have billed itself as the 20th anniversary edition of Risky Business.
5. Greenfield... is downright brazen in pinching the plot of Risky Business and dumbing down a sophisticated adolescent fantasy into a crude adolescent fantasy.
6. Risky Business doesn't need a remake, and even if it did, The Girl Next Door is an unoriginal attempt, despite its modern-day spin.
7. A much smarter and more engaging film than its smutty premise would suggest.
8. One of the tawdriest silly jokers of the year, or one of the few mainstream comedies to have a pinch of audacity. In fact it is both, mixed implausibly but somewhat entertainingly.
9. It's got enough cute love to keep the attention of teenage girls everywhere... but "The Girl Next Door" is too farfetched and contrived to be memorable.
10. This is a dishonest, quease-inducing 'comedy' that had me feeling uneasy and then unclean.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?

The movie borrows heavily from Risky Business, though Hirsch and Cuthbert are appealing leads.


1. In a year when the franchise watchword is 'dark', this delivers the full noir with a side order of dementia.
2. Should we comment on the horrendous Batmobile? You probably saw the trailer, so there is no need.
3. There's a great actor around every corner in this film.
4. The muscular grit of the action sequences is leavened with nicely judged sarky banter.
5. A fully formed Batman, fleshed out in a glossy veneer.
6. Dismissing this as merely escapist entertainment would ignore the myriad adult themes that bulk up the picture, issues ranging from the duality of man to the politics of fear.
7. The Dark Knight is redeemed in Batman Begins. This is the best Batman movie of all.
8. Calling [it] the best comic-book movie ever isn't enough. It's more ... a dark and resonant drama of one man's tortured path from guilt-ridden victim to conquering avenger.
9. Nolan takes the Comic Book Film and Crafts a Zinger of an Art-House Film.
10. A confidently original, engrossing interpretation, with a seriously thought-through (but never self-serious) aesthetic point of view that announces, from the get-go, someone who knows what he's doing is running the show.
What is the consensus?

Brooding and dark, but also exciting and smart, Batman Begins is a film that understands the essence of one of the definitive superheroes.


1. A winning combination of humor and crafty filmmaking that cleverly masks the social commentary going on beneath.
2. With complex lead characters, an endless supporting cast and focus on an inanimate object that draws out the weakness in men, the movie has more in common with the Lord of the Rings trilogies than anything from the camera of Ken Burns.
3. If Wranovics is somewhat too noncommittal in his presentation, he still shows a great eye for detail.
4. A twisty little documentary about the aftermath of Bonds' fat swing.
5. Even if you vaguely remember the outcome of this absurd episode, there are enough surprises and revelations to keep you on the edge of your seat.
6. Michael Wranovics' highly enertaining documentary Up for Grabs is a wry, Rashomon-like tale.
7. The longer the case drags on, the more you may begin to wish that, somehow, both sides lose.
8. Up for Grabs isn't just about a ball. It's about America.
9. Up For Grabs, a buoyant documentary by Michael Wranovics, touches three bases of contemporary life: greed, litigiousness and a fixation with fame, however fleeting, that rises to the level of dementia.
10. Michael Wranovics' well-meant documentary about the absurd legal battle over the ownership of the baseball Barry Bonds hit for his season-record 73rd home run, back in 2001, is instantly overshadowed by subsequent events.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

You don't have to be a baseball fan to be entertained by the absurdities, obsessions, and greed on display in this documentary.


The critic consesnsus is: A tight blend of surprises and suspense keeps audiences spellbound.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. Why, in the second half of Frequency, does the script allow its guts to overwhelm its spirit?
2. A rather choppy ride, fraught with sweet pleasures and trite perils, and vice versa.
3. Aggressively stupid.
4. Frequency is, quite easily, the most illogical film I've seen in ages.
5. Proves that having an inspired idea is only half the battle in making a good movie.
6. What do you get when you cross a serial-killer movie with a sappy father/son drama and give it a time-travel twist? An overblown Twilight Zone episode whose flood of treacly sentiment is partially concealed under the sci-fi trappings.
7. There are story concepts so far-fetched that no movie can recover, no matter how finely acted or sincerely made, and Frequency is a prime example.
8. Touches upon the profound human longing to escape the constraints of time, to see the wrongs and mistakes of the past somehow set right, redeemed.
9. A fairly wonderful movie about fathers and sons and the mystery of time.
10. a combination fantasy/tearjerker/thriller with several dizzying twists. It's the first screenplay of former film industry executive Noah Emmerich, and it all but overflows with imagination, suspense and big ideas.


The critic consesnsus is: This poetic and tender portrait of a Welsh village is a slow moving yet elegantly accomplished British documentary.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. A poetic, profound and contemplative journey into a world of endings and beginnings.
2. Sleep furiously is a film whose lower-case title is in perfect keeping with the understated but tremulous mood it manages, with rare skill, to create and to maintain.
3. The film has richness and an unshowy compassion, its grammar and pace adjusting to the tempo of the countryside.
4. Images of wistful sadness - lone figures with plodding dogs on rain-lashed hillsides - are interlaced with humour and moments of skin-prickling beauty that leave the audience undone.
5. This is as fully formed and unique a debut movie as you could ever hope to see.
6. Even though it's sometimes picturesque and involving, it's also so achingly slow and indulgent that it will test even the most patient viewers.
7. Sleep Furiously may be the most beautifully elemental documentary film to have emerged in Britain in over a decade and I can't applaud it loudly enough.
8. Great claims have been made for it, which I cannot endorse, Koppel's stated intentions being infinitely more arresting than the completed film.
9. This film is best taken as a visual ode to an all-but-forgotten way of life.
10. A paean to the dignity of ritualized traditions that aims for poetic calmness, but more often smoothes its subjects into deliberately emblematic somnambulism.


1. Imaginative and twisted in equal measure, but ultimately only scratches the surface of a stupendous idea.
2. Rare Exports is a revelation...guaranteed to turn your candy coated X-mas dreams into equally delicious nightmares.
3. Like Bad Santa and Silent Night, Bloody Night, it's a Christmas movie that isn't for children. Quite whom it is for, I'm not totally sure.
4. For a while, it's a genuinely funny and unnerving experience, promising a lively payoff, but the ending is anti-climactic and the meaning of the title is only revealed in the laborious, jokey ending.
5. It's hard not to like a movie in which a little kid who's so skittish that he totes around a protective stuffed animal suddenly stares down the grown-ups, cocks a gun, and snarls, "It's either me or Santa. I suggest Santa."
6. "Santa's buried here" are not the words one expects to hear in a holiday-themed release, but, then, the dismembered reindeer and sacks full of kidnapped children were something of a surprise as well
7. Sometimes it's nice to break with tradition.
8. The maverick influences of Tim Burton and the Coen brothers can be detected easily throughout Rare Exports, but there is something utterly unique at work here that adventurous viewers are sure to appreciate.
9. Rare Exports promises to be delirious fun, and largely delivers.
10. Don't watch this film if you want a warm and sentimental movie to get you in the Christmas mood, but you might fancy it as an antidote to yuletide cheesiness.

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

Rare Exports is an unexpectedly delightful crossbreed of deadpan comedy and Christmas horror.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. Joel and Ethan are bounteously gifted filmmakers, but sometimes you just want them to lay off the irony and climb down here with the groundlings.
2. Clooney and Zeta-Jones make for a glamorous couple, and there is enough chemistry between them that you might find yourself wondering if Michael Douglas has a Miles Massey prenup.
3. Nothing more than a decent quickie -- if you're into that kind of thing.
4. It is fun, but in such a clinical way that you could quantify the experience of watching it: eight big laughs, 20 chuckles and six draggy parts.
5. Further proof that the Coens can take any genre -- in this case, a star-driven screwball comedy -- and make it work without sacrificing their unique sensibility in the process.
6. Better in its setup than in its resolution, Intolerable Cruelty nonetheless provides laughs and a fine comic performance from George Clooney.
7. A hilarious comedy that offers a clever look at the follies and grief that come to all those who try to milk the institution of marriage for all they can get out of it.
8. The Coens bring out the goofy best in Clooney; he's a matinee idol with a silly red nose and clown shoes whenever working with the brothers.
9. Even a lesser Coen brothers film is still better than most "good" movies, and Cruelty is well worth the price of admission.
10. Clooney and Zeta Jones have impeccable comic timing, frst-rate acting talent and movie star magic, which keeps their characters both real and sizzlingly sexy.

Though more mainstream than other Coen films, there are still funny oddball touches, and Clooney and Zeta-Jones sizzle like old-time movie stars.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "theres something about mary".

There's Something About Mary proves that unrelentingly, unabashedly peurile humor doesn't necessarily come at the expense of a film's heart.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. The emotions are raw and will strike a nerve with anyone who's ever had family trauma.
2. A gripping drama.
3. Daughter From Danang sticks with its subjects a little longer and tells a deeper story
4. "What really happened?" is a question for philosophers, not filmmakers; all the filmmakers need to do is engage an audience.
5. A sobering and powerful documentary about the most severe kind of personal loss: rejection by one's mother.
6. Certainly a boon for Jay-Z fans.
7. The film doesn't manage to achieve for hip-hop what the great rock concert films of the past have done for their musical genre.
8. Whether a legend was born (or retired) that night at the Garden remains to be seen, but even on film, it was one killer show.
9. Smartly directed by Pat Paulson and Michael John Warren and nicely lensed, the material sufficiently establishes the rarefied air Jay-Z occupies.
10. You thought there was Red State America and Blue State America? Welcome to Jay-Z America. It's not your father's crossover rap show.

An emotionally wrenching portrayal of a family reunion that doesn't turn out as expected.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. While this film will indeed insult almost everyone, it's also genuinely hilarious.
2. There are a lot of blue state folks who are offended by Cohen's portrayal of Kazakhstan as a backwards country of idiots. Hopefully, Cohen will find a way to make fun of these fun-hating cretins in his next picture
3. You will certainly laugh a whole lot, but will you still respect yourself in the morning? Maybe. Maybe not. For me, it proved to be a risk well worth taking.
4. Don't count out Borat to be above more straightforward practicality or participating in the most intestinal-dropping, gut-smashing bit of cough-inducing hilarity of male bonding ever committed to celluloid.
5. What makes Borat a riot isn't its socio-analytical acuteness, but rather Cohen's gift for establishing circumstances at once squirm-inducing uncomfortable, slapstick-stupid, and insanely inappropriate.
6. Nothing's safe from Cohen's sophisticated satire, disguised as backwater idiocy.
7. The jokes hit hard and almost too often making your own laughter serve as earplugs for half of the film.
8. [Baron] Cohen melds the pranking of "Jackass," the punking of "Punk'd," the satire of Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and the inventiveness of Mel Brooks to create an original brand of comedy that stands alone as a defiant manifesto for compulsive laughs.
9. Evil comedy, a new genre, has arrived. The bar has been raised and is flying over everyone's head. A fearless comedy.
10. Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius, and his new film is a comedic masterpiece.

Jagshemash! Borat gets high-fives almost all-around for being offensive in the funniest possible way. Part satire, part shockumentary, Borat stars Sacha Baron Cohen as the gleefully sexist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic title character on a cross-country trek to learn more about our strange nation; along the way he dredges up the seamy underbelly of American prejudice and ignorance. Now the cat is out of the bag, what will Cohen do for an encore?


The critic consesnsus is: With the requisite combination of humor, sorrow and outstanding visuals, The Darjeeling Limited will satisfy Wes Anderson fans.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. [Anderson's] movies, even if you think the stories are slight, are full of the joy of seeing. I could watch them with the sound off and still be completely happy.
2. Like a once in a lifetime trip that only grows grander with the passage of time, The Darjeeling Limited is idiosyncratic filmmaking at its finest.
3. May not deliver on the emotional context of Tenenbaums but is more than funny enough to forgive it's heavy-handed dramatic metaphors.
4. In the Anderson oeuvre, it feels minor: although it hits its goals, it doesn't necessarily aim big this time.
5. Although The Darjeeling Limited pales in comparison to Anderson's best film, Rushmore, it's still a vast improvement over the director's last and worst film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
6. The usual pleasures of Anderson's work are all present in The Darjeeling Limited, which creates a gorgeous palette out of local color.
7. Amid all this self-conscious cleverness, the one sequence built around primal emotions feels hideously out of place, its gravity diminished by the self-consciously kooky antics that surround it.
8. Unstintingly fussy, vain and self-regarding. But it is also a treasure: an odd, flawed, but nonetheless beautifully handmade object as apt to win affection as to provoke annoyance. You might say that it has sentimental value.
9. If Anderson's films really are an acquired taste, then Darjeeling is cooked to perfection.
10. The jewel in Wes Anderson's crown!


Write an ordered list of reviews about "a team".

1. Nothing more than a bunch of money thrown onto the screen, sometimes enlivened by inspired performances but more often content to just sit there, loud and self-satisfied
2. The shootouts, explosions, fights and corrupt government and military officials all ultimately blend together into a forgettable heap of excess. (Parental Review also Available)
3. Where The A-Team falters so resoundingly is in its belief that spectacle equals suspense.
4. The diabolical sadist of the team was director Joe Carnahan.
5. Much like Michael Bay, Joe Carnahan directs with a full erection, which is put to good use guiding The A-Team to a series of manly highs and lows.
6. The A-Team is a gigantic pile of ear-deafening nonsense, but it is brisk and goofy and well shot by Carnahan (Smokin' Aces) and a lot livelier than Robin Hood or Iron Man 2.
7. Like the Sex and the City sequel, it is an example of the cinema of excess, except that this time we're talking boys' toys, and instead of offering the joys of conspicuous consumption, the spectacle is one of wholesale destruction.
8. A bombastically mindless and rather fun rebooting of the 1980s TV show of the same name.
9. It's too bad that after all these years of revisions and revamps they never really got it. This plan might come together to please the execs at Fox, but Hannibal would be ashamed.
10. No doubt it takes as much know-how to pull off this kind of action movie as it does to craft an intimate drama about an extramarital affair. But it's an achievement that has little to do with art.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. The few original ideas tend to get bogged down in a plot that's slow, convoluted and even more schizophrenic than Mr. Brooks himself.
2. Overdesigned characters and situations stretch plausibility at every turn.
3. [Mr. Brooks] piles subplot upon subplot, making what should have been a taut, disturbing thriller feel bloated and aimless.
4. The alter-ego gimmick works nicely thanks to terrific Costner-Hurt teamwork in this gripping, complex thriller.
5. Bloody disappointing.
6. If our movies are any guide, we're a nation of latent serial killers.
7. Though it's not as smooth as it might have been and by the close has gotten too clever by half, this trashy thriller delivers the goods more often than not.
8. Exquisitely constructed, Mr. Brooks is a gorgeous and compelling thriller about a very sympathetic serial killer. ... The story unfolds with the delicious pacing of a carefully prepared feast.
9. Costner's best performance ever! An intelligent, terrific thriller with twists and kinky characters. Costner and Hurt are a sensational team.
10. Certainly more genuinely creepy than many recent thrillers, and the supporting cast is effective.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

The setup is intriguing, but Mr. Brooks overstuffs itself with twists and subplots, becoming more preposterous as it goes along.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "the lord of the rings the return of the king".

Visually breathtaking and emotionally powerful, The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King is a moving and satisfying conclusion to a great trilogy.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Another symphony of exquisitely choreographed carnage.
2. Is it radical or offensive? I really don't know. It certainly got my attention.
3. The finale is an extended tour de force equal parts Bruce Lee, Tony Jaa, and Donkey Kong.
4. Chocolate gives us the first autistic action hero.
5. Enjoyable thriller.
6. The heart of the film may be its action sequences but, even outside the battle arena, 'Chocolate' is a nicely characterised and consistently likeable piece of work.
7. It boils down to this: Thai girl fighting. Is that enough of a movie for you?
8. Chocolate is risibly sentimental even for a genre not known for its emotional sophistication.
9. ... the fights are terrific, tightly choreographed with a good sense of ensemble movement and shot in long takes that preserve the fluidity of the action...
10. The world may not have needed a Thai-language martial-arts hybrid of Kill Bill and Rain Man, but by God, it's got one now.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Chocolate is a bizarre martial arts flick, with a slushy plot, an unusual protagonist, and breathtaking stunts.


Which movie is the following review about?

Assisted by passionless central performances and dull dialogue, Mungiu succeeds only in exhausting our patience, not in conveying a message.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "the pool".

1. It's a subtle, truthful, moving story of class, ambition, friendship and romantic yearning, extremely well acted by a largely non-professional cast.
2. Though plot-wise nothing much happens, Smith elicits strong sense of place and teases out the film's themes ...
3. Shot with a level of realism we rarely seen in Indian cinema, this film combines sharply engaging characters with an involving story that really gets under the skin. A
4. [A] wholly unobjectionable, likeably performed but faintly soporific drama ...
5. It tells you a lot about South India, its essentially rural culture and the stifling poverty of its underclass.
6. Told with real warmth and charm, this is a confidently handled tale boosted by natural, engaging performances from Venkatesh and Jahangir Badshah as his young friend.
7. Hopefully Smith will make more movies in this laid-back, poetic style.
8. Smith's film is natural and unforced, with a winning fluency and calm observational style.
9. A fascinating narrative set in modern-day Indian and full of insights into a class-riven country.
10. Here are filigree detailing, pure-and-simple performances (especially from Venkatesh Chavan as the boy) and a subtly lambent moral tale ...


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Makes you long for the days when all Twohy wanted to do was make a decent scary movie.
2. One can only wish Dame Judi had been allowed to declaim at some point 'Alas, poor Riddick'...let's just hope there are no further chapters to these chronicles.
3. Twohy wants Riddick to become a great mythological figure of conflicting goodness and badness, but the character just doesn't have enough weight to sustain all that baggage.
4. Diesel gives a one-note performance that may be somewhat fitting of his dark and dreary character, but nonetheless grows tiresome rather quickly...
5. ...as a proletarian concept artist, David Twohy proves that he has both the imagination and the skill to build exciting worlds for his characters to interact in.
6. Some may call David Twohy's film pretentious; the target market for this boys' own adventure may not actually care. . . But for me, give me a good story any day.
7. In throwing out wit and intelligence for mindless action, Twohy ends up with a noisy, chaotic, over-serious mess.
8. A escala grandiosa dos cenários e das batalhas serve apenas para esconder a fragilidade do argumento.
9. Should have been called "The Chronicles of Arthritic." The movie is so lame, it needs a cane by the time it lumbers into its final act.
10. I really can't call any of the acting good or bad. It was what it was. Vin Deisel threw around some funny one-liners. Everyone else just kinda hung out.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

As an action movie, Riddick offers some thrills, but as a sequel to Pitch Black, it's a disappointment.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "iraq in fragments".

A stylistically bold, humanist take on the difficulties of post-invasion Iraq.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "beautiful girls".

1. It doesn't always take you where you'd like it to go, but that's all right.
2. I watched this film three times in two days and dug it more each time.
3. Hutton, understated but not bland for a change, gives his best performance in years.
4. The movie is wry, touching and fun to sit through...
5. What's nicest about the film is the way it treasures the good feelings people can have for one another.
6. Portman, a budding knockout, is scene-stealingly good even in an overly showy role.
7. Watching these guys struggle with an idea is like watching a dog trying to get to that unattainable itchy spot. Funny, but pathetic too.
8. The truth is it's just not fun to watch people make excuses for themselves.
9. Rosie O'Donnell's best 10 minutes of her career.
10. The movie lacks the stature or consistency to be truly beautiful -- but you know, it is kind of cute.


Which movie is the following review about?

You could watch it with the sound off and the plot wouldn't make any less sense than it does with it on.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. You know what garbage is, but until you see Funny Games, a bucket of swill by Austrian wacko Michael Haneke, you have no idea how bad it can smell.
2. Rests so heavily on tenterhooks of guilt that an apology is in order for admiring it.
3. A disturbing headscratcher likely to leave an audience feeling more abused than entertained.
4. This is cinematic gamesmanship that is simultaneously brutal, bizarre and elegant in its audacity. Director Haneke has artistically exploited cinematic structure to play with and engage the mind. It's a very funny game indeed.
5. It is by far the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. I don't smoke, but if I did I would have easily gone through a pack of cigarettes afterward.
6. Though fundamentally a nihilistic exercise, it's one with intellect and purpose behind it, and though chilly and remote, it's certainly unnerving.
7. Although Funny Games inspires a lot of conflicting emotions in viewers, isn't it always better to leave the theatre feeling something than nothing at all?
8. The fact that it features fine performances, talented direction and some moments of genuine suspense only makes the end product that much more grotesque and appalling.
9. Haneke's assault on our fantasy lives is shallow, unimaginative, and glacially unengaged -- a sucker punch without the redeeming passion of punk.
10. Performances are stellar.

Though made with great skill, Funny Games is nevertheless a sadistic exercise in chastising the audience.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. It's deja vu all over again.
2. The film meets the basic requirement of any good thriller: a memorably tense sequence or two.
3. An entertaining, comic slasher movie that offers solid answers to the questions that have been nagging fans since the original installment.
4. Genuinely scary and also highly amusing.
5. The funniest of the trilogy.
6. Scary, frightening, tense, episodic, comedic and amusing all along the way in all of the right places.
7. A clever, entertaining movie.
8. Craven hasn't lost his horror film touch.
9. Scream 3 has arrived, and to say it was well worth the wait would be an understatement.
10. [Wraps] up the trilogy in satisfying fashion.

According to critics, Scream 3 has become what it originally spoofed. Despite some surprising twists, the movie seems to have lost its freshness and originality by falling back on the old horror formulas and cliches.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "v for vendetta".

Visually stunning and thought-provoking, V For Vendetta's political pronouncements may rile some, but its story and impressive set pieces will nevertheless entertain.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "police academy 4 citizens on patrol".

Utterly, completely, thoroughly and astonishingly unfunny, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol sends a once-innocuous franchise plummeting to agonizing new depths.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Daniel Day-Lewis's magnificent, sanguine performance as oilman Daniel Plainview is just one of many reasons to catch P.T. Anderson's latest feature.
2. The moments that linger long after you've left the theater and forgotten how damned tedious the whole thing was are with Paul Dano's smug, moon-faced preacher
3. A masterful tale of the parallels and disconnections between primal bloodlust and a life of luxury. Both the movie and the man that sit at the center of that idea are a marvel to watch. Sumptuous and snarling all at once, it's a classic.
4. Is this an indictment of American progress, our pursuit of oil, of riches, or is it an indictment of the pursuit of spirituality led by spiritless men? Or D, all of the above?
5. It's as if you can feel the oil flowing under the ground, bubbling, seeking a weak patch of earth from which to spew. But, the climactic emotional equivalent never occurs.
6. brutal yet fascinating to watch
7. I hate the way the film forces us into its epic structure and purposefully fractured narrative as if the audience is a puppy having its little nose shoved in a puddle of its own making.
8. I'd rather see something this daring--even when it doesn't quite work--over a generic Hollywood blockbuster any day.
9. ... a strong movie, with extraordinary visual power and the unsettling ambiguity of genuine art.
10. Beautifully crafted and acted though There Will Be Blood is, Daniel Plainview remains an enigma. This and weak, reaching developments in the third act make the film a lesser epic.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Widely touted as a masterpiece, this sparse and sprawling epic about the underhanded "heroes" of capitalism boasts incredible performances by leads Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, and is director Paul Thomas Anderson's best work to date.


1. An insipid Christmas comedy.
2. Re-teaming with Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin, Vince Vaughn plays the eponymous character, Santa's crankier and considerably less charitable older brother, while doing all the riffing his PG straitjacket will allow.
3. If you must haul the kids to yet another annual (per)version of A Christmas Carol, you could do a lot worse than this cheeky, modestly edgy caper from Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin and screenwriter Dan Fogelman.
4. This movie takes a good thing and runs it deep into the ground, leaving behind a frothy trail of sentimentality.
5. Bah. Humbug.
6. Fred Claus wants to be both naughty and nice -- and still get some sort of present.
7. Fred Claus doesn't know if it wants to be naughty or nice.
8. Even though Vaughn knows how to build a pretty good performance out of little more than exasperated eye-rolling, he's just coasting here, and his scenes with Giamatti have no weight and no energy.
9. a fragile premise stuffed with hollow Christmas jokes
10. One wonders what made producer Joel Silver think this bizarre mix of incompatible genres would be a potential hit. Santa may have to skip his house for every winter holiday to come.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A slew of talent is wasted in this contrived and overly sentimental Christmas film, which can't quite get the balance between slapstick humor and sentimental family moments.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "i am divine".

1. There have been other docs about John Waters and his coterie, and a lot of this may be familiar ground to some, but Schwartz's comprehensive focus pays off and fresh information is imparted.
2. It made me fall in love with Divine all over again.
3. Although the story ends sadly (no one should die at age 42), the film itself is not sad, but is instead a celebration of a performer who made the most out of the talents he had.
4. Hard to beat for sheer enjoyment, as when Divine's mother remembers: 'I used to always say, Glenn, don't do anything to embarrass us' -- a sound bite accompanied by footage of Divine being raped by a giant lobster in 'Multiple Maniacs.'
5. A heartfelt, loving homage to its subject, a larger-than-life personality who proved that the traditional roads to fame weren't the only options for a shy, gay Baltimore boy who wanted to be famous.
6. Though it may boil down to your average procession-of-talking-heads template, it's still enlivened by the raucous words from the band of outsiders who supported and launched Divine into the limelight.
7. This documentary reminds us of Divine's audacious and unique impact on both film and American culture. It's also a great way to celebrate the talented actor who gave us Divine.
8. A striking tribute to the pioneering spirit, radical queerness and sheer divinity of Divine.
9. It's gratifying to see Divine praised for being outrageous ...
10. In Milstead's brief 42 years there were separations and reunions, stumbles, success and, finally, a real American family, in movies oddly ahead of their time.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. ... fans of Burton and/or his (last) Nightmare will find plenty to love...
2. I've seen it all before already, in Nightmare [Before Christmas]... It's enough to make you wonder how limited Burton's imagination might actually be...
3. Would be a **** short.
4. It is a potent reminder of how dazzling stop-motion animation can be.
5. From a technical standpoint, this is a masterpiece. From a story standpoint, it is a beautiful tale with true heart and meaning. Musically, it is flawed.
6. If you have a pulse, you'll love it.
7. Even though Burton has fun with the never-ending Halloween of his imagination, he takes the emotions and desires of his characters seriously.
8. The animation is pretty, but the film is D.O.A.
9. Tim Burton so believably brings his worlds to life, with such a dark, dreamy and dazzling imagination, that we all but take for granted that he has taken us on some of the most delightfully absurd adventures of modern cinema.
10. It's too late to call a script doctor. Give away Corpse Bride to the morgue.

As can be expected from a Tim Burton movie, Corpse Bride is whimsically macabre, visually imaginative, and emotionally bittersweet.


1. Daniels, in a scruffy beard and wearing the apologetic look of a divorced dad who hasn't visited his kid enough, hasn't been this good in a long time.
2. From bumbling infants to majestic adults, a flock hasn't been this charismatic onscreen since Hitchcock went bird-watching.
3. Cuteness galore, terrific aerial shots, and a healthy dose of environmental awareness.
4. It's a movie about dreamers that, for once, doesn't make you feel like a sap for buying into their dreams.
5. It's a genuine delight and a definite thumbs aloft for kids of about six upwards.
6. The predictability of all this might be more palatable if the characters were better developed or more appealing.
7. Beautifully directed by Carroll Ballard, the film is a celebration of the creative ways human beings and animals can serve, assist, and love one another.
8. The tender beauty of Carroll Ballard's ''Fly Away Home'' goes well beyond what might be expected from a movie about things that hatch.
9. Its aerial scenes are wondrous, beautiful as symphonies, and worth the price of admission alone. Count as a bonus the skilled, heartfelt performance from the teen-aged star and from Mr. Daniels as her resourceful dad.
10. A great adventure made all the more enjoyable because it is based on a true story.

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

Well-acted and beautifully filmed, Fly Away Home offers heartwarming entertainment for moviegoers of all ages.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. You leave feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing.
2. Doesn't fully recapture the magic of the Connery films, but avoids the torpor which has afflicted most of the later ones...there's a pulse in the old boy yet.
3. Like most Bond outings in recent years, some of the stunts are so outlandish that they border on being cartoonlike. A heavy reliance on CGI technology is beginning to creep into the series.
4. I expect more from Bond, so thumbs down.
5. All in all, screenwriters: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have managed to keep us from suspending disbelief and the film from self-destructing.
6. Half frivolous fun, half tedious.
7. A meandering, over-inflated, everything -but-the -kitchen-sink attempt to one-up and wear down.
8. The niftiest Bond movie in years -- fresh, funny, and jammed to the rafters with demented stunts, Boys'-Own gadgetry and brazen promiscuity.
9. After "Die Another Day" I'm not opposed to hearing the line "Bond, James Bond," again. After all of these years, even though he hasn't changed much, we can still rely on 007 to give us an adrenaline rush.
10. Die Another Day gives us the coolness, the action, and the sex appeal in satisfying doses, which is enough to make it a solid Bond entry, if not a spectacular one.

Its action may be bit too over-the-top for some, but Die Another Day is lavishly crafted and succeeds in evoking classic Bond themes from the franchise's earlier installments.


1. ...restores your faith in low budgets and dumb ideas. It reminds you both can be fun.
2. Nothing happens in this film that you don't expect to happen, and it's that lack of originality that causes the film to drag in spots. But it's still a perfectly fine, little film whose earnestness and cast chemistry ultimately won me over.
3. There's really no reason this film should have been made. None whatsoever. It's not original, nothing above and beyond anything else that's come out on the same subject over and over again at least three times a year for a generation. It's not better than
4. Here's the final mystery about Accepted: Why title a movie that so readily invites the headline Rejected as a critical riposte?
5. Think about it too much and the whole thing falls apart; sit back, relax, and don't analyze it and the movie is pretty darn entertaining.
6. Amiably banal and instantly forgettable, it gets a barely passing grade largely for just showing up.
7. Even though it outright plagiarizes many plot points and gags of that generational classic, Accepted can't make the leap from contrived to genuine comedy.
8. A shameless Animal House (1978) knockoff by way of Ferris Bueller's Day Off(1986), this college comedy aims low and misses often.
9. Go right ahead and skip this one at the Cineplex. You've got my word: It won't be on the final.
10. Dumb comedy about college students partying.
What is the consensus?

Like its characters who aren't able to meet their potential, Accepted's inconsistent and ridiculous plot gets annoying, despite a few laughs.


1. The relevance of the film's title only becomes clear at the film's ill-conceived end, in a dragged out sequence that totally overshadows the film's already flakey premise. The best thing that can be said of the film is that it is well intentioned
2. If it is to be remembered, it'll be for all the wrong reasons.
3. The modestly scaled film delivers some moving and affecting moments amid a preponderance of scenes of frequently annoying people behaving badly.
4. A strong romantic drama in which Robert Pattinson and Emilie de Ravin really shine.
5. There is much to be impressed with here.
6. Tween and teen girls will weep in the cheap seats, while adults will be narked by the ending, a shameful piggyback on a national tragedy, which will further the career of the heart-throb.
7. Remember Me provides some mild domestic spats and lots of picturesque male brooding, but it's a pallid and oddly exploitative affair.
8. It is the cinematic equivalent of a mournful track from a cool indie band until we get to that awkward finale.
9. Pattinson's young female fans are likely to find this film less unbearable than anyone else. But even they may find the big emotional climax, which exploits a major terrorist disaster, cheap and pretentious.
10. R-Patz shows he can act, standing toe to toe with the fine Chris Cooper and looking like James Dean in comparison to the annoying Tate Ellington, who plays Tyler's "comedy" flatmate.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Its leads are likeable, but Remember Me suffers from an overly maudlin script and a borderline offensive final twist.


1. Without bombast or pathos -- as gracefully as a tightrope walker -- Man on Wire brings back a time when the towers were still symbols of aspiration and possibility.
2. Cleverly assembled like a heist thriller, this film documents the 1974 wire-walking stunt between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Not only does it have a remarkable resonance seven years after 9/11, but it's a cracking good story.
3. Marsh presents Petit as a kind of acrobatic Werner Herzog, talented, eccentric and perhaps slightly crazy.
4. James Marsh's film is brilliantly achieved and assembled.
5. Robert Zemeckis is developing a feature film based on Petit's life and high crimes. Good luck to all concerned, but I can't see how a fictionalized treatment could exceed the achievement of director James Marsh's documentary, which unfolds like a dream.
6. Outrageously entertaining and perfectly profound.
7. A fascinating time capsule: a combination of talking-head interviews, actual footage, and re-creations that evokes a kinder, gentler world and provides insight into one of the most audacious stunts of the 20th century.
8. ...a must see movie, period.
9. The astonishing tale, told like a well-paced heist movie, is illustrated by film footage and breathtaking photographs taken by the group.
10. Gripping stuff, for sure, but you may fall asleep waiting for that big walk, while the juicy stuff - a fall-out between Petit and his co-conspirators - is glossed over at the end.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

James Marsh's doc about artist Phililppe Petit's artful caper brings you every ounce of suspense that can be wrung from a man on a (suspended) wire.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. If you've always wanted to hear inanimate objects argue with each other in the personas of Cranky Jewish Guy and Sassy Black Woman, this is a dream come true.
2. Never explains its stupid idea of a talking baseball and a talking bat...The filmmakers presume too much in assuming we'll accept the "magic" "realism"...
3. Means well, but it's as bland as a stale slice of dry white bread.
4. The indomitable spirit of Christopher Reeve shines through this little story.
5. I can't say Everyone's Hero strikes out -- it might distract little kids for a while -- but the directors needn't bother practicing their home run trots.
6. This Fox effort isn't in the same ballpark as Pixar. It's not even in the same league.
7. Everyone's Hero has good values, a decent story and a happy ending. It will probably play a lot better on video, but for the moment it's on the big screen.
8. Everyone's Hero re-creates Depression-era America with surprisingly agreeable anachronistic panache.
9. It's a charming story aimed at the youngsters in the audience, but it ends up being just as appealing to the adults. ... The animation is superb and imaginative.
10. Everyone's Hero is a labor of love. And that clearly comes through in this feel-good animated feature about a 10-year-old boy, Yankee Irving, who becomes an unlikely World Series hero for the 1932 New York Yankees.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Everyone's Hero is such a predictable and bland tale that it'll appeal mostly to little kids; others seeking something in Pixar's league are looking in the wrong ballpark.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "1016213-peter pan".

1. Peter Pan may be a boy who refuses to grow up, but his movie is really one of Disney's most adult "kids'" films.
2. If you can ignore some of the film's minor flaws, you should have a ripe old time at the movies.
3. Heartwarming story about boys, girls and growing up. Oh yeah, and there's cool pirates too.
4. I would argue that Peter Pan is a movie with great characters, but it is not itself a great movie.
5. Ornamented with some bright and lilting tunes, it is a lively feature-length Technicolor excursion into a world that glows with an exhilarating charm and a gentle joyousness.
6. Disney's depersonalizing habit of putting different teams in charge of different sections of the story really shows up here.
7. Definitely a Disney classic but misses out much of the darker side of J.M.Barrie's fantasy tale.
8. Classic Disney, if not authentic Barrie.
9. Not an especially mature film, probably the most "kiddie movie" of all the 1950s Disney features.
10. Stereotypes mar otherwise jaunty Disney adventure.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. Inspired, brilliant filmmaking and one of the most scathing satires to come along in some time.
2. Rude, but inspired.
3. Like listening to a profane rant by kids stricken with Tourette's syndrome.
4. It fails miserably.
5. It's savagely funny, it's true to the core essence of the show, and it expands on the show in ways that television, due to content restrictions and time limitations, simply couldn't allow. And the tunes rock.
6. Tous les fans se régaleront de ce film tout ŕ fait réussi.
7. South Park finds jokes where you cannot possibly expect them and leavens the grossness not with a brain-dead love story but a spirited, smart enough look at its own inspired prurience.
8. I found this film hysterically funny and quite thought-provoking.
9. It will offend a lot of people who need to be offended once in a while.
10. Vulgar and tasteless as usual, but most definitely longer and, quite obviously, to its detriment, uncut.

Its jokes are profoundly bold and rude but incredibly funny at the same time.


1. Not very impressive from a storytelling aspect.
2. The summer blockbuster we've been waiting for.
3. It doesn't even seem like Burton showed up to direct this turkey.
4. Whatever the faults of the first Planet and its sequels, they were all about something; this film is pure, empty (if gorgeous) spectacle.
5. Works equally well as a popcorn adrenaline-heart-pumper as it does a pop-philosophical inquiry into the nature of humanity.
6. Burton provides plenty of eye candy and a few giggles, but ultimately his film has little soul.
7. One more disappointment in a summer of lackluster 'event pictures.'
8. In the tradition of Independence Day, Twister, and the original Jurassic Park, this is a great Summer Movie.
9. The most uneven motion picture Tim Burton has ever made.
10. It is a potent action film with some philosophical meat on its bones

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

This remake of Planet of the Apes can't compare to the original in some critics' mind, but the striking visuals and B-movie charms may win you over.


Which movie is the following review about?

10,000 B.C. is a load of crap dressed up with pretty background vistas. The film is terminally lifeless, something that a so-called 'event' picture should never be.


1. It is downright depressing to think about all that vigorous cinematic artistry and expertise aimed so low.
2. Pitting the bad guys against each other merely recycles all the shtick we've seen before.
3. Fans of the two series will laugh, because the genre is so squarely skewered. Others will wonder what the big deal is, having seen King Kong vs. Godzilla, Mothra vs. Rodan and any number of sitcom weddings.
4. A tediously ghastly genre pic.
5. While the filmmakers send up the genre's cliches and expected audience empathy with the villains, it still feels like the ludicrous dialogue and one-dimensional characterizations were written by teenagers.
6. A goofy but occasionally fun novelty that's more enjoyable than it has any right to be.
7. There are far less lively ways to spend a night at the movies.
8. Does a decent job of making like the 1980s never ended.
9. A horror fan's wet bloodfest with an outrageous story line and plenty of laughs.
10. Freddy vs. Jason succeeds as a guilty pleasure.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?

Fans of the two horror franchises will enjoy this showdown. But for everyone else, it's the same old slice and dice.


1. With all it's faults, it does produce a steady stream of giggles.
2. Neither one for the dogs nor the cat's pajamas.
3. A silly, stupid story with a one-joke comic premise.
4. Its relative modesty lends Mr. Schneider's deft, ingenuous performance an unexpected glow of innocence.
5. There's a whole lot of stuff like The Animal to the point that there's no longer anything outrageous about its outrageousness.
6. The one running joke in The Animal becomes familiar and predictable all too soon.
7. Neither as bad as it might be nor as entertaining as it should be.
8. Let's hear it for stupendously dumb screen writing.
9. I'm no fan of injury-based humor, but I guess if there were any actor I'd like to see pummeled, it'd be Rob Schneider.
10. ... lurches from scene to scene, some of them ending with a comedic thud, but most just fading into nothingness.

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While less offensive and more charming than recent gross-humored comedies, The Animal is still rather mediocre.