Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. [Philip] Kaufman's version persuasively asserts its right to life as an imaginative reflection of our time...
2. On top of being an engrossing conspiracy thriller in step with the gritty urban tales of the time, the Invasion of the Body Snatchers is also a genuinely creepy film which slyly suggests there is something sinister beneath the surface.
3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers validates the entire concept of remakes.
4. Siegel gave the frissons classical sharpness while Kaufman goes for baroque erudition
5. Set at the intersection of post-Vietnam paranoia and the myopic introspection that became hippiedom's most lasting cultural contribution, the Philip Kaufman-directed Invasion alternates social commentary with impeccably crafted scares.
6. If not quite as great as its predecessor, still a pretty damn fine genre picture.
7. A superior sci-fi thriller that makes even raindrops, plants and electrical cords take on sinister life.
8. It's not only the best of the four films based on Jack Finney's story, but also one of the best films of the 1970s.
9. Ideas that Siegel knocked off in a few shots are expanded to fill entire sequences -- but they're good ideas, and can stand a little stretching.
10. The dog with a human head rocks!

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Employing gritty camerawork and evocative sound effects, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a powerful remake that expands upon themes and ideas only lightly explored in the original.


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Instead of Deliverance's deep backwoods hicks we have now backwoods chavs who live a life unscrutinised by cops or anyone. Watkins has consumed all those tabloid hoodie tales and regurgitated a horror.


1. As much as I enjoyed spending time with these characters, it's hard not to bristle at the overall After-School Special vibe.
2. A fine film with much on its mind, and while suffering from occasional missteps, it holds together as a terrific expression of worry and relocation, inspecting the less illuminated side of the American Dream.
3. When most filmmakers want to say something important about cultural conflicts, they labor to bring tears to our eyes. Dabis, by contrast, makes us laugh at ourselves and, in turn, each other.
4. A remarkably engaging, observant approach to a prickly situation
5. It's one of those movies that plays to the cheap seats, making the racism bigger, the assimilation process rougher, and the family squabbles extra-broad, lest viewers miss the point.
6. Stands as one of the most accomplished recent films about a non-European immigrant coming to the United States.
7. The good humor, generosity, and love Dabis bestows on her characters in this assured first feature are uniquely hers -- the mark of a talent to watch
8. As it stands, the movie just serves up another warmed-over Ellis Island rehash.
9. The thriving subgenre of immigrant displacement dramedy gets a confident new spin from Cherien Dabis.
10. Amreeka isn't great, but it's a relief when a movie that touches on America's post-9/11 unease regarding Muslims and the Arab world isn't full of condemnation.

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A dramedy that's got a taste for the tragic as well as the poignantly comic, Amreeka adds a new sweetness to the hope and distress of the immigrant experience.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "tailor of panama".

The Tailor of Panama is a smart, darkly satirical thriller with exuberant performances from Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush.


1. Jettisoning the franchise's optimistic, socially aware sci-fi, not to mention character development or a logical plot, Darkness turns out to be any Vulcan's worst nightmare: Team America: World Police with Tribbles.
2. Abrams' sophomore effort picks its references well, builds on the relationships established in the original series (and tweaked in the last movie) and keeps the quips and battles coming. Warp speed, Captain.
3. "Star Trek Into Darkness" is ridiculously exciting. Which is to say it's so exciting it's ridiculous. But in a good way.
4. You don't have to be totally immersed in Trekkie lore to follow "Into Darkness," but a bit of basic Trek 101 would at least shed a little guiding light.
5. It's definitely a fun action movie, but I'm ready for these films to boldly go in their own direction, instead of hanging on to the originals.
6. A tribute to excess, but in a good way, sort of.
7. Most of the logic has leached away from this movie, and with it half of the fun.
8. ..the epic scale of the action and amazing quality of the visuals, plus the sheer fun of hanging with trusted friends, puts this entry light years ahead of most competing blockbusters, even if intellectually it never leaves space dock.
9. Do we boldly go where no man has gone before? From a plot standpoint, the answer is a resounding no, but that doesn't mean that its is a boring retread of past storylines. It's an energetic, thrilling mash-up of past storylines.
10. Action set pieces interrupt with sonic booms, like clockwork, whenever the character development lasts more than a few minutes.
What is the consensus?

Visually spectacular and suitably action packed, Star Trek Into Darkness is a rock-solid installment in the venerable sci-fi franchise, even if it's not as fresh as its predecessor.


1. Nicely mixed lighter-than-air comedy with poignant moments amid Brazil's political authoritarian governments in the 1970s.
2. I found the film fascinating for showing me entertainingly a world I still know very little about.
3. Mauro's character is underwritten, but Michel Joelsas delivers a believable, pained lad capable of still being a child.
4. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation seems to be about, in the end, is big-time sport as the opiate of the masses.
5. Director Cao Hamburger, a Brazilian of Italian and German descent, treats this development with a very light hand.
6. A gentle coming-of-age film set in 1970 Brazil.
7. Be patient and brace yourself for the climax; the wait is definitely worthwhile.
8. This 1970-set tale of a 12-year-old shaped by three driving forces--his country's brutal dictatorship, his left-wing parents' disappearance and a nation's obsession with the World Cup--pulls you into a well-observed world and its characters.
9. This nuanced coming-of-age drama by Cao Hamburger exudes warmth without getting mired in nostalgia.
10. An emotionally touching Brazilian film about the spiritual riches and rewards of hospitality experienced by an abandoned and lonely young boy in a strange place.
What is the consensus?

Hamburger deftly refracts the sociopolitical tumult of early '70s Brazil through the lens of a young boy's coming of age, and Joelsas' performance is wise beyond his years.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. One of the most remarkable films of 2001, and it deserves a much larger audience than it has so far gained.
2. Donnie Darko ranks among Gattaca, Pi and Dark City for pure imagination -- and surpasses them for astonishing execution.
3. You either love it or hate it. For those who loved it, I have only one word: overrated.c
4. A faithfully rendered head trip.
5. In its metaphysical concerns and challenging notions about personal and social responsibility, the film aims much higher than most American youth pictures.
6. Donnie Darko's flaws, though, are those of a young, talented filmmaker reaching beyond his current grasp. That's a more forgivable sin than soulless excess or hubris-fueled incompetence.
7. Donnie Darko has plenty of problems. But most stem from a young filmmaker overswinging on his first time up to the plate and hitting a deep fly out rather than a home run.
8. Kelly captures, better than any film in recent memory other than Election, what it feels like to be in high school.
9. The original was a movie for all those castaways who believe in unexplained phenomenon; the new version reads like a handbook on how to pick up women.
10. The big screen, in any shape or form, is the ideal way to experience Donnie Darko, and so a re-release like this is a rare and welcome gift.

Richard Kelly's debut feature Donnie Darko is a daring, original vision, packed with jarring ideas and intelligence and featuring a remarkable performance from Jake Gyllenhaal as the troubled title character.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. There is a palpable chemistry between Forster and Wahlberg as the two very different, generationally separated diamond men...
2. The pleasure that these two men share in one another's company, both as characters and performers, radiates through every frame.
3. Forster's rich, realistic, heartfelt portrayal elevates Diamond Men even further.
4. It's a nice little movie about the friendship of two regular Joes, odd and affecting.
5. The kind of keenly observed, artfully crafted, warmly humane movie that keeps us going through the weekly helping of big-screen duds.
6. Cohen, who has been in the diamond business, has directed with a sure, non-wasteful hand and with touching empathy for both men.
7. It is a treasure.
8. Cohen is himself a former 'diamond man,' which is no doubt why this world has been so perfectly realized for the screen.
9. The story's considerable charms make it all worthwhile.
10. Watching Diamond Men, it's easy to see what the fuss about Forster is about.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Robert Forster's tour-de-force performance, along with Daniel M. Cohen's sensitive direction and subtly shaded screenplay, brings rare heft to this mentor/protégé buddy film.


1. It's this kind of flat-footed stuff that gives garbage a bad name.
2. While Re-Animator fails as a faithful adaptation of Lovecraft, it is an incredibly demented movie in its own right that combines a plethora of downright disgusting grand guignol with disturbing black humor.
3. A classic horror-comedy.
4. This is one of the greatest films ever made. Period. It's outrageous, erotic, gory, jaw-dropping, genre-busting ,shocking, and altogether exhilarating filmmaking.
5. Stuart Gordon doesn't just push the envelope of good taste with this one; he tears right through it.
6. In its best moments, the film itself practically leaps off the screen.
7. Thumpingly good gore-fest.
8. It's no match for The Evil Dead, but as far as tongue-in-bloody-cheek gorefests go, this update of the H.P. Lovecraft tale is a lot of fun, and it easily earns its cult status.
9. It's sweet when a classic lives up to its legend, isn't it?
10. It's so politically incorrect that there is no way anyone would be able to make it today.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Perfectly mixing humor and horror, the only thing more effective than Re-Animator's gory scares are its dry, deadpan jokes.


1. It's fun and gives this genre a new twist.
2. Go.
3. It's funny and witty at times, and it has some decent jolts here and there. (Full Content Review for Parents also available)
4. The wonderfully inventive meta-story leads to a riotous conclusion that trashes the rules of the teen fright flick.
5. This Cabin may not be the Parthenon, but it's definitely a place to worship the gods of horror.
6. The script is inspired, the direction is sprightly, and the third act does not falter. And everything you need to know is in the title. Well, almost everything.
7. This movie gives me faith that Hollywood is actually willing to do something outside the box in the name of entertainment.
8. The expected happens, but with a twist.
9. An entertaining and wholly original genre hybrid film that has more than a few tricks up its sleeves.
10. This is the most fun I have ever had watching a horror film.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

The Cabin in the Woods is an astonishing meta-feat, capable of being funny, strange, and scary -- frequently all at the same time.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. Shakespeare in Love stands on its wonderful cast, its solid direction and very clever script.
2. Entertaining, witty and acutely funny, with the ability to appeal to more than Shakespeare buffs. But for real fans of the Bard, it's a glorious treat that's smart and humorous, with highly appealing performances all round.
3. Sniping at what's already been celebrated as a major national triumph always looks not-quite-cricket, but Madden's film is transparently one of those things that the British Do So Well, and the Americans fund so handsomely.
4. The film is literate without being pretentious, bawdy without being gross and grounded in historical fact without being constricted by it.
5. Taking the writing process behind Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as its inspiration, John Madden's follow-up to Mrs Brown combines contemporary humour with a convincing 16th-century setting.
6. Shakespeare in Love crackles with the in-jokey brilliance that we associate with the playwright Tom Stoppard.... And you don't have to be a Shakespeare scholar to appreciate this movie's wit and easygoing references to the entertainment world today.
7. Get thee to the nearest movie theater showing Shakespeare in Love, a delightful comedy that sparkles with wit, literary smarts, passionate romance and expert acting by a glossy, enthusiastic cast.
8. In addition to Fiennes, who does a star-making job here, and the radiant Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love teems with wonderful performances.
9. This romantic farce has a talented cast and energy to spare, but somehow the ingredients don't burn as brightly as one would expect from such promising ingredients.
10. You can't miss with a movie that speaks the language of love with such hotblooded delight. And in iambic pentameter, too.

Endlessly witty, visually rapturous, and sweetly romantic, Shakespeare in Love is a delightful romantic comedy that succeeds on nearly every level.


1. Has the mark of something dashed off after reading what dozens of screenwriting manuals had to say about the marketplace and the three-act paradigm, but not one word about characterization or dramatic unity.
2. A close reading of Mr. Woodcock reveals a dark, depressing film about small town decline. I think.
3. The whole film is like a depressing nightmare.
4. Apparently, Billy Bob Thornton has embraced the idea of appealing to the lowest possible common denominator. How else can you explain his presence in another bad taste bottom-feeder which might have been better titled Bad Gym Teacher, ala Bad Santa?
5. we're stuck with Amy Poehler telling us she's an alcoholic and an unaware Susan Sarandon watching two men act like idiots, which unfortunately isn't funny at all.
6. ...a tedious and hackneyed effort that surely (and hopefully) marks Billy Bob Thornton's final appearance as a comedically misanthropic curmudgeon...
7. Mr Woodcock is ok as far as predictable, low-brow Hollywood comedies are concerned, and it's considerably elevated by its above average cast.
8. O longa năo apenas acaba se revelando terrivelmente sem graça como também assusta por sua moral torta, condizente com a do personagem-título.
9. One can't help but wonder what the Coens or Farrellys might have done with this cast and premise.
10. A terrible, sophomoric joke of a title, which is sadly reflective of the rest of the equally unfunny proceedings.
What is the consensus?

Underutilizing a talented cast, Mr. Woodcock lacks the comic energy and timing to make the most of its intriguing premise.


1. I enjoyed it. It's a fun, dumb and gross comedy that kids will love.
2. Mostly animated PG film has gross-out humor, violence.
3. You'll probably find yourself laughing at Bill Murray farting. I did.
4. The plot's so much old rote, and the characters have all the personality of protoplasm; but the anthropomorphising of this microcosmic metropolis is wonderfully imaginative, and the dialogue decidedly spiffy.
5. ...the whole thing eventually becomes bogged down in its own plot.
6. It is funny, original, and even contains a genuine, good-natured theme.
7. I'd advise attendees of this film to go on an empty stomach, but if you're willing to endure the Farrellys' warped sense of humor and Murray's scratching, squirting, gas-passing antics, Osmosis Jones offers some lighthearted fun.
8. The ideas are there, hints of genius, but no one ignites them.
9. The design of this colorful interior metropolis is both clever and biologically correct.
10. The over-riding question with all comedies is 'Are there many laughs in it?' Luckily, the answer is yes - there are lots of great jokes, and not all of the scatological kind.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

The animated portion of Osmosis is zippy and fun, but the live-action portion is lethargic.


1. Bridesmaids is the sort of movie in which you know exactly how everything is going to turn out by the end, but the characterizations are strong enough to overcome the formulaic template.
2. In this movie, romantic envy and class envy coalesce, because Bridesmaids understands just how they're linked. Even if money can't buy you love, being broke puts you at a distinct disadvantage.
3. In an age when so many Hollywood chick-flicks seem to really hate women, it's refreshing to see a character-driven movie about women. The humor here is outrageous, bawdy, sometimes even scatological, but it's never misogynist.
4. Paul Feig's film has gambled on women, assuming that female moviegoers are sick of being reduced to man-starved, materialistic shopaholics by Hollywood.
5. This is a smart and funny movie that satisfyingly expands the Apatow brand.
6. "Bridesmaids'' openly, comfortably turns the stress of being girlfriends into comedy. It's really about the single friend backing away from the edge of temporary insanity.
7. This is one very funny flick, which may require a second viewing, lest loud laughter rob you of hearing some of the lines - especially during an eye-popping pivotal scene that was once the purview of the boys: the big gross-out.
8. Just as Apatow redefined leading men in a more realistic manner, Wiig may well change the way Hollywood looks at ladies.
9. The setup is ripe for a black comedy but the movie never fully embraces the darkness and the level of humor is on par with the limp skits for which Wiig is responsible on Saturday Night Live.
10. [Bridesmaids is] one of the funniest films in the past few years.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?

A marriage of genuine characters, gross out gags, and pathos, Bridesmaids is a female-driven comedy that refuses to be boxed in as Kristen Wiig emerges as a real star.


1. exemplary crime stuff, complex anti-hero and all.
2. It is distinguished by the intelligence of its plotting and the fullness of its characterizations: These are believable people, not merely plot fodder.
3. Not only as good as any American thriller of the past several years, but boasts a totally unique premise.
4. The moral dilemmas raised by the assassin and Mr. Decleir's fierce performance are what make the stylish straightforward policier somewhat memorable.
5. A sort of 'CSI: Antwerp' episode from a director who seems to be auditioning for the next Jason Bourne adventure.
6. The cat-and-mouse game that Ledda and especially Vincke play is fun to watch.
7. What if grandpa was a hit man, and he was rapidly losing his mind during a killer assignment?
8. The unusual Antwerp locations, the visual style of the filmmaking, and the soulfulness of the performances make it a welcome European addition to the genre.
9. A strong showcase for Declair, who plays Ledda as a cagey survivor on a vendetta and juggling cat-and-mouse games with the cops, his future victims and his faltering mind.
10. While Decleir and De Bouw provide exceptionally fine performances, the film devolves into stolid predictability in the third act.

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Even though The Memory of a Killer is standard genre fare, it is also engaging and stylish.


1. ELord Of War drops the hammer slowly, laying out the fascinating parameters of Cage's world before opening up its argument in an astonishing denouement.
2. Lord of War has a surreal edge, despite being enmeshed in world events, with absurdity and dark humor laced throughout.
3. I'm beginning to get discouraged about Andrew Niccol.
4. Satire is rarely so hard-hitting, or high calibre.
5. This film fails so miserably don't be surprised to find yourself often rooting against the supposed good guy.
6. That the CIA engages in these activities with all sorts of Orlovs no doubt slithering around in the mix somewhere, is a far more intriguing huge chunk of vital information that sadly never made it to the screen.
7. A carefully choreographed devil's dance in which Nicolas Cage finds fleet-footed rejuvenation as a man aware evil can't exist without good, but that evil often wins. This uniquely unsympathetic, world-weary film earns the right to fling that truth.
8. A fine, grown-up movie, half thriller, half black comedy.
9. The movie ultimately crushes itself in a vise of self-loathing.
10. Niccol is no stranger to hot-button issues, but he outdoes his previous efforts by injecting this satire of war profiteering in the Halliburton age with a wicked arsenic wit.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

While Lord of War is an intelligent examination of the gun trade, it is too scattershot in its plotting to connect.


1. The effect isn't just frenetic, unfunny and dull. It's kind of creepy.
2. Uncle Jesse and Joey must have been too busy to make appearances. Lucky them.
3. It's a charming, zestful romp.
4. The unapologetic, no-consequence nature of the characters' activities here, as well as the constant flow of dress-them-up Barbie outfits the twins don, wallow in the worst sort of amorality and image-is- everything indulgence.
5. It's as if someone took three or four of the Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley videos and stitched them together in a way that is convoluted and strangely plotless.
6. Ashley and Mary-Kate are passable actors, which puts them in the same league as Hilary Duff, Amanda Bynes and Mandy Moore, but light years behind Allison Loman.
7. Just know that it never gets sitcomish enough to make adults squirm with homicidal rage, it's fun to watch and your pre-adolescent will love it.
8. Viewers likely will have more patience counting down the Olsen twins' last days of childhood than sitting through their film.
9. As coy sleaze goes, the new Olsen twins' movie doesn't match Britney Spears's Crossroads, but it comes close.
10. There are so many completely laughless stretches that this under-90-minutes feature feels considerably longer.
What is the consensus?

Feels more like a calculated product designed to expand the Olsens' brand than an actual movie. Also, it contains ethnic stereotyping and sexual innuendo.


1. It's never, ever boring. And, importantly, it knows exactly when to quit.
2. ...a sort of power-pop variation on the mystical time-bending Euro-art movies made by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski.
3. FAST, smart and fun,
4. ...the movie is a departure from the norm that will have audiences chattering well into the night...
5. Lola, played with unbounded energy in an utterly captivating performance by Franka Potente, does exactly that, run almost the entire movie.
6. this goofy, audacious, visually stylized omnibus of what-ifs that operates on its own peculiar logic, and powers along with the force of a truck on the Autobahn.
7. Compared to the alternate scenarios envisioned in Sliding Doors or Blind Chance, Run Lola Run comes across as pedestrian.
8. All the actors do perform excellently in their roles, but the star here is the director Tom Tykwer. The layering of the imagery, soundtrack, and the pacing all come together to outshine any performance by a single actor.
9. Tom Twyker's frenzied directing is never dull, and casting his girlfriend [Franka] Potente in the role was a smart choice.
10. Run Lola Run could very well be the punchiest piece of concept art to ever hit the silver screen, a shock-dose of German existential cinema you can ride.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

More fun than a barrel of Jean-Paul Sartre, pic's energy riffs on an engaging love story and really human performances while offering a series of what-ifs and a blood-stirring soundtrack.


1. Gilliam is a film artist with a grand and copious vision that he incorporates into every frame of every film like a potion.
2. The result is something that might best be called Monty Python and the Holy Mess.
3. A flawed but brilliantly imaginative mix of darkness and humor reminiscent of Hammer period chillers like Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter by way of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
4. This film does for fairy tales what Time Bandits did for time travel stories
5. A feast for the eyes, and often very funny.
6. Jammed with stuff and all but empty of drama.
7. The best thing to be said about this expensive but drab wannabe mirthmaker is that it has some of its director's quirky touches.
8. The film is as much about the process of creation, of spinning yarns and contexts, as it is about any particular yarns.
9. Gilliam is inspired by the sibling writers, it seems, so he could deliver a goofy comedy.
10. Magical! Wonderful! Gorgeous! Enchantment comes to life.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?

The Brothers Grimm is full of beautiful imagery, but the story is labored and less than enchanting.


1. An entertaining film for kids and young teens.
2. [Muniz's] cute, was paid $2 million and should start pondering the career arc of Mickey Rooney.
3. The concoction doesn't taste like anything special, but a has refreshing hint of sweetness.
4. Agent Cody Banks provides the kind of high-quality entertainment one would expect in an adult action adventure that is expected to rake in major bucks.
5. Dedicated to helping kids make a transition, smoothing the way between Boy's Life readers and Maxim readers.
6. Those who aren't part of the 10- to 13-year-old target audience will probably also find it witless and derivative.
7. Unfortunately for Agent Cody Banks, someone already made a movie about spy kids, and it was called 'Spy Kids.'
8. A wasteful, if painless, diversion.
9. Although the original Spy Kids worked, Agent Cody Banks proves that things seldom taste as good a second or third time.
10. Overall, the film will probably be enjoyable for younger viewers -- especially fans of Muniz -- but otherwise isn't as successful at putting the spy kid through the teen years.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Should satisfy young teens, but offers nothing new for those who are familiar with the formula.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "next friday".

1. Its humor batting average would earn anybody an MVP.
2. Vulgar, stupid and un-PC as it may be, this sequel to 1995's surprise hit Friday is also sporadically funny... occasionally very funny.
3. As garishly uninspired as an average UPN sitcom episode.
4. Steve Carr is on creative lockdown here.
5. Notable chiefly for feeding a stereotype of blacks as shiftless layabouts interested mainly in recreational drugs and irresponsible sex.
6. Ice Cube manages a certain bumbling charm that keeps the film churning along quite winningly for 90 minutes.
7. Next Friday's a chronic snore.
8. By the film's hollow conclusion, even Ice Cube has to acknowledge that T.G.I.F. really stands for Thank God, It's Finished.
9. While the end of the year is known for Ho, Ho, Ho, movie critics often react to the beginning of the year and its cinematic offerings with No, No, No! Next Friday is one of those films that elicits such a reaction.
10. An altered state on the part of a viewer is about the only way for this film to be considered the laugh riot of the year.


1. Through the filmmaking, and inside the film itself, the son visits the sins of the father and discovers a triumph, a legacy, a purpose.
2. Van Peebles' stiff, needlessly flashy direction lacks the energy this material required to become truly transporting, and the relationships between the characters, particularly the father and son, is never convincing.
3. Works alternately as a weird kind of biopic, a movie about moviemaking and a film about a certain era in Hollywood.
4. Effectively raw and stylish.
5. In Baadasssss! 1970s blaxploitation cinema finally has its own Day for Night.
6. The last face we see belongs to the real Melvin, who doesn't say a word -- but his fierce look confirms the story's veracity and his pride in his son.
7. It succeeds in one very important aspect: It makes you want to see the original movie that spawned it.
8. Not just forgiving toward the elder Van Peebles, it's filled with a spirit of comic amazement about what he accomplished.
9. The rousing and irresistible story of the making of the 1971 action film Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song.
10. A reminder that good intentions don't always make for good movies.
What is the consensus?

An entertaining and intriguing tribute to a father from his son.


1. Though without the charm of 'Grizzly Man' and 'March of the Penguins,' this is a fleshed-out human story of men working to protect antelopes in the Tibetan mountains.
2. Spectacularly-photographed, deeply moving tale.
3. A quiet little gem of a film that stuns with spectacular beauty, shocks with awful savagery and leaves you pondering the relationship of man and nature.
4. What is remarkable is that this film is based on a true story, and filmed on the actual locations.
5. One of the most beautiful and disturbing widescreen epics in last year's Seattle International Film Festival.
6. It's an absurdist, quixotic and sloooow journey that leads our heroes to the banal face of evil.
7. Much of the time, the movie plays like a catalog of challenges sprawled over terrain so forbidding that you can't watch it without feeling a steep measure of awe.
8. Instead of a laudable ecological crusade, the film feels more like a futile Captain Ahab obsession, with patrol leader Ri Tai (Duobujie) vainly chasing a poaching kingpin through the harsh, windy wilderness.
9. An epic story of white-knuckle tension in a setting of harsh, unearthly beauty, it's the kind of story Hemingway might have told if he'd made it to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
10. The film's somber beauty is recommendation enough, but the way political, personal, and symbolic tensions seethe silently below the surface turn it into riveting drama.

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In a setting both visually stunning and cruel, this Eastern film evokes the epic spirit of old-fashioned Westerns.


The critic consesnsus is: Borrowing heavily (and intelligently) from Pixar and Looney Tunes, Despicable Me is a surprisingly thoughtful, family-friendly treat with a few surprises of its own.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. It looks so stylish that thinking about its plot is strictly optional.
2. When compared with the ambition and achievement of recent animated films, such as Coraline and Toy Story 3, Despicable Me hardly seems to have been worth making, and it's barely worth watching.
3. As the gentle story of a lost man who finds his humanity at the same time he discovers love can be a reciprocal emotion, Despicable Me has its heart in just the right place.
4. A spunky 3D animated feature that shows how a supervillain can follow his heart and be transformed from within.
5. First-time directors Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin and the other filmmakers behind this slight but engaging kids' animated comedy have no ambitions to be original, but like their villainous hero, Gru, they insist on stealing only from the best.
6. Limps to a finish without ever finding a distinct identity.
7. For a film that opens with a tiresome, clichéd first half, it's a treat to watch the movie transform into something likable and exciting. Perhaps too little too late, but at least the filmmakers ultimately catch on to what's best for their feature.
8. [T]otally fresh and wildly original... [I]t feels like an act of outright anarchy for a film to give us... a story we don't already know the ending of before we even walk into the theater.
9. There is a glee to this silliness I haven't seen in an animated feature since Monsters Inc.
10. Neither as rich in story nor stunning in animation as Pixar offerings, Despicable Me instead settles for simply being goofy good fun, and it hardly seems like settling at all.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "win win 2011".

1. Some accomplished turns, and the mood of downbeat quirkiness has its appeal. Plot contrivances scupper it though, and given McCarthy's track record it's a letdown.
2. If there's a more agreeable comedy now making the rounds, please, someone, tell me about it ... easily the best film I've seen so far this year ...
3. Funny, agreeable and thoroughly enjoyable, if a little bit too neat and fortuitous in sorting out its entangled strands.
4. Trundles along for the most part in sitcom fashion, even down to the plinky-plonky background music.
5. Funny, touching, and beautifully acted, Win Win is definitely a victory in humanistic storytelling.
6. An under-the-radar breath of fresh air built on a strong cast and a smart script.
7. Writer/director Tom McCarthy's skill comes from an ability to hook you and make you care about his characters as if they are family.
8. No disrespect: this is a nice little movie
9. With this cast and these characters, even the predictable goes down very nicely indeed.
10. Another great 'family unit' film from director Thomas McCarthy and one of the best teen performances you'll see with newcomer Alex Shaffer.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. The tone of the film, directed by P. J. Hogan, is frothy and frivolous; the plot is glaringly predictable.
2. It's a shame eBay didn't get their hand in here, but then that would have spoiled almost two hours of light-hearted anti-capitalist sentiment from the producer of Top Gun.
3. If you want gritty realism, see an arthouse movie. Or shop in a pound store. As journalist Rebecca, Isla Fisher is silly and adorable - just like this adaptation of Sophie Kinsella's novel.
4. The problem nipping at the designer heels of Confessions is not the state of the economy but, rather, the film's predictability.
5. More Topshop than Top Gun, this Bruckheimer effort sees Fisher finally make good on her Wedding Crashers promise in a film that manages to be both a frothy romcom and a cautionary tale on the perils of plastic splurgery.
6. The conclusion is almost as predictable as the Harrods sale...even if you feel you've not quite got your money's worth. Not so much top draw as bargain basement.
7. Shopaholic is a pleasingly addictive treat. Happily, it's one that won't max out your credit card.
8. This excruciatingly bad attempt at a breezy romcom is an ill-conceived, dreadfully executed mess. Totally bereft of laughs, drama and chemistry between the leads, the movie is so nausea-inducing that it belongs in a sub genre of its own - the vomcom.
9. The whole thing is a piece of romantic codswallop that relies on the ordinary but feisty charm of Fisher.
10. This rival to the other chick flick of the moment, He's Just Not That Into You, is a fabulously frothy and fun fashion film.

This middling romantic comedy underutilizes a talented cast and delivers muddled messages on materialism and conspicuous consumption.


1. This is one film that shouldn't have been birthed. No, in fact, it should have been aborted.
2. At last we are making crappy horror films entirely on our own, without having to rip them off from Japan! U-S-A! U-S-A!
3. Goyer has penned many scripts superior to this one, but he does make sure you're never far away from a big 'Boo!'
4. 'This is the last time I'll write a movie on a roll of Charmin Ultra,' said Goyer.
5. The film's raison d'ętre is a series of shock effects involving creepy kids, dogs with upside-down heads and a CGI-powered geriatric variant on Linda Blair's crab walk.
6. Falls very much line with early-year schlock.
7. A cheesy low-rent supernatural thriller that vainly tries to introduce some gravitas by dropping references to the Kabbalah.
8. The film's story is not so much plagued by plot holes as it is constructed out of them, not unlike an especially lacy variety of Swiss cheese.
9. ...a salad of creepshow cliches...
10. Not deep or all that visually imaginative--Goyer never wavers from the usual slow build-up to a sudden fright, and the ending is all fight-and-flight, no shock-and-awe--but certainly unboring.

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

David Goyer's Unborn is a tame genre effort with cheap thrills and scares that border on silliness.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. The film is all over the place, really. It dabbles all around, never gaining much momentum.
2. Ho hum. Another week, another grossout teen comedy.
3. The filmmakers use the fact they are making a film about underachieving as an excuse to do just that and Van Wilder, while aspiring to be Ferris Bueller, comes off more like Grange Hill's Roland Browning
4. Strangely comes off as a kingdom more mild than wild.
5. Enthusiastically taking up the current teen movie concern with bodily functions, Walt Becker's film pushes all the demographically appropriate comic buttons.
6. Its gross-out gags and colorful set pieces... are of course stultifyingly contrived and too stylized by half. Still, it gets the job done -- a sleepy afternoon rental.
7. What more can be expected from a college comedy that's target audience hasn't graduated from junior high school?
8. You'll likely hate yourself for laughing, but laugh you will.
9. While it may look like any other campus comedy at first glance, Van Wilder is actually different from the rest, with its refreshing, fun-filled and wacky script.
10. An uneven mix of National Lampoon-style high jinks (yes, it feels slightly dated) and Farrelly-brothers touches tossed in for gross measure.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

A derivative gross-out comedy that's short on laughs.


1. A lighthearted, low-budget remake likely to work well for those capable of approaching it more as a novelty than a knockoff.
2. Not for the fainthearted, certainly, but it has an unembarassable elan that helps it avoid the pitfalls of campness and silliness.
3. Filled with shoot-outs, knife fights, amazing stuntwork and striking colours, this breathless yarn feels completely bonkers at times.
4. Some fancy setpieces here and there, and gunplay just about everywhere, but none of the principals can begin to rival the sacred trio of Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef and the other one.
5. It's a picture of ferocious energy and excess, consciously influenced in its plot, music and visual style by Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as well as by the Indiana Jones movies. Over-extended, but extremely enjoyable.
6. The movie raises the bar yet again for South Korean tech expertise and ambition, as well as launching the K-oater subgenre.
7. The Good, the Bad, the Weird may owe a lot to other films, but it is always fresh and never boring.
8. It's hard to knock any movie that opens with an eye-popping train robbery, followed by a balls-out siege, and then a super-cool heist.
9. This is filmmaking as rodeo ride: bruising and ultimately pointless, but thrilling as hell while it lasts.
10. Wild, crazy and packed with memorable moments, this South Korean homage to the western may not be thought-provoking or particularly deep, but it's also one of the most genuinely fun and inventive movies to hit the screen in quite some time.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Whilst never taking itself too seriously, this riotous and rollicking Sergio Leone-inspired Korean Western is serious fun.


Which movie is the following review about?

The best of all the Disney cartoons


1. While the action is good, the movie isn't as cool as it thinks. If you replace Bruce Willis with Gene Hackman, then you have a hit on your hands about these 'old' agents.
2. Much of the enjoyment comes from seeing these respected thespians so thoroughly embody cartoon characters; it's like Sidney Lumet directing Space Jam.
3. Proof, if more were needed, that the artistic collision between the aging baby boomers and their comic-book-obsessed progeny makes for some mighty strange, but not unentertaining, bedfellows.
4. One of those rare action comedies that actually delivers action and comedy, and one where the alleged humor doesn't consist merely of wisecracking heroes blowing away cardboard villains.
5. What really works for Red is our shared history with the actors involved.
6. Action sequences are just poorly shot. It feels like they took a few comic panels from the book, but you don't see the effects of a given action.
7. Retired CIA agents get dragged back into harness, and the is truth is that they couldn't be happier in this good-natured action movie spiced up with a dash each of comedy and romance...
8. You're never too old for mayhem.
9. The kicker is in the casting: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Brian Cox and Helen Mirren all come out to play.
10. Director Robert Schwentke does as much as he can with the cartoonish story and stunts but after a while can no longer maintain the illusion that RED is actually about anything.
What is the consensus?

It may not be the killer thrill ride you'd expect from an action movie with a cast of this caliber, but Red still thoroughly outshines most of its big-budget counterparts with its wit and style.


1. The beauty of the Dirty Harry movies isn't all the famous lines but is Clint Eastwood's wonderfully dry and threatening delivery of them.
2. Freudian's could have a field day examining the obsession that Harry has with the size of his weaponry in this flaccid police thriller
3. The fourth installment in the Dirty Harry series (7 years after the third) has the unlikely tale of Eastwood's Callahan after a murderous woman bend on revenge against the men who raped her and her sister 10 years earlier.
4. Harry starts to parody himself with this one.
5. Eastwood the star needed a hit to bolster his flagging ratings; now that he's got it, maybe Harry will be put out to stud, with his Magnum.
6. It is viewed by many aficionados as the best of the five movies about the hard-nosed, authority-defying San Francisco cop.
7. The film lags whenever Eastwood isn't on screen, but even his dryly humorous patter can't offset the very sour, mean tone of the rest of the film.
8. Sadly, Clint was still sleeping with Sandra Locke and giving her work! The worse of the "Dirty Harry" films...didn't "make my day"
9. This is the first entry in the series to have been directed by Eastwood himself, and action is put over with great force, if also with some obviousness.
10. At times like a traffic jam of different stories and characters crossing paths back and forth for almost two hours, and there isn't too much tension to go with it.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Sudden Impact delivers all the firepower -- and the most enduring catchphrase -- fans associate with the Dirty Harry franchise, but it's far from the best film in the series.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. Hail to the King, baby.
2. Bubba has a couple of terrific performances and some major laughs, but it's so badly paced that at only 92 minutes it seems overlong.
3. Neither particularly funny nor scary, but tiresome.
4. In the end, what keeps it going is not the story but the delicious relationship between Elvis and JFK.
5. Coscarelli's pacing pokes along like Elvis in his walker, and the horror finale is slow and pointless.
6. Silly, but it tells us more about courage than many highly-touted movies this year, including 'Cold Mountain' and 'The Last Samurai.'
7. It gets by on a kind of demented charm.
8. It's a blast, thank you very much.
9. There's an astonishing amount of good, solid acting.
10. Bubba Ho-Tep sounds more like a hip Saturday Night Live skit. Unfortunately, it also plays like a standard SNL movie, all high concept with little story.

The best movie to star both the King and JFK.


1. Naturally honest, painfully poignant but funny, too.
2. This film thinks it has more to say than it actually does. Ignoring its pretensions, however, it's a solid, quirky piece of work.
3. Baumbach's portraits of these unique characters, particularly the angry Walt and the opinion-dropping cheapskate Bernard, are etched in acid and bitingly funny.
4. Marital discord receives an innovative treatment in this impressive feature.
5. [Demonstrates], once again, that the thinnest line in the emotional realm can be the one between love and hate.
6. All of the performances are stellar, including Oscar-caliber performances from Daniels and Linney. But just like Kramer vs. Kramer, it's the little kid who steals the show.
7. A good movie held together in a web of repulsions; a great observation of human behavior
8. Don't look now, but Jeff Daniels' days as 'the other Jeff' may be coming to an end.
9. Not much subtlety here. While the film is billed as a comedy and a drama, this story of a childish father spoiling the lives of his family is not a laughing matter.
10. Hilarious, harrowing and heartbreaking, The Squid and the Whale is one of the best movies of the year.

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

This is a piercingly honest, acidly witty look at divorce and its impact on a family.


Which movie is the following review about?

If you have kids, take them and have a ball.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "tims vermeer 2014".

Entertaining and profound in equal measure, Tim's Vermeer uses its seemingly esoteric subject to pose fascinating questions about art and obsession.


Which movie is the following review about?

The cast is irresistibly charming, down to the bit parts by Lili Taylor and Amy Brooks as Lloyd's best friends.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "roll bounce".

Roll Bounce dazzles us with a classic late 1970's feel, but this coming of age film could have been more than just a spin around the roller rink.


1. Once again, Godzilla delivers, cheese and all, in a stylistic B-movie with teeth.
2. Despite special effects far inferior to those used in the 1998 American version, [Toho Studio] is still the master of its original 1954 creation.
3. Contains more laugh-out-loud moments than The Replacements and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps combined.
4. Godzilla 2000 ... is dubbed into English in a manner that's occasionally too jokey for its own good.
5. The absurd and often pretty violence of the film's long climax can leave you smiling, though this sort of pop regurgitation is getting old.
6. [Godzilla] deserves better than this overripe afterthought.
7. Better-suited to a Saturday matinee.
8. Despite the millennial title, you're not going to see anything new here.
9. Like Godzilla Jr., Godzilla 2000 has a long way to go before it lives up to its legacy.
10. Godzilla 2000 doesn't have the special effects, to say nothing of plotting or characterization, to compete with most Hollywood product.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?

Godzilla 2000 is cheesy, laughable, and good entertaining fun.


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

A striking effort that synthesizes disparate influences with inventive flair, Güeros marks a bold step forward for modern Mexican cinema.


The critic consesnsus is: Nico and Dani offers a refreshingly honest look at adolescence and sexual coming-of-age.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. A minor pleasure, a story of complex feelings told simply and without pretention.
2. Delivers the oft-trod subject of boys' sexuality with intelligence and freshness.
3. "Nico and Dani" is refreshing after the lowbrow sniggering found in American teen sex comedies.
4. Although films about adolescents stumbling urgently toward sexual self-identity are plentiful, most are put to shame by the delicacy, poignancy, and honesty of Nico and Dani.
5. The film seems unfocused at times, but on reflection, stands out as an unusually sensitive and honest view of teen sexuality, straight or gay.
6. I wish there were more such honestly rendered and thoughtfully told coming-of-age films.
7. The rare coming-of-age film that avoids cliches, refuses to engage in stereotypes, and wins over both your intellect and your heart.
8. One of the most sensitive and subtle explorations of sexuality to hit the big screen in the States in a long time.
9. Touching, funny, unflinching and true.
10. One of the better recent contributions to an over-crowded field.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Batkid Begins has the feel of a barn-raising gone global.
2. The seams occasionally show, especially whenever the shy, overwhelmed Miles grows tired or reluctant - or whenever the easily defeated villains start to look like so many overstuffed dolls - but it's impossible to say "no" to this project.
3. Nachman's documentary does a great job of showing the many pieces that came into place for Miles' moment, but it doesn't look much at what's underneath it all.
4. The film will restore one's faith in humanity, at least during its running time.
5. It's a rare documentary that showcases the absolute best of humanity.
6. Plucky, upbeat and utterly lacking in cynicism -- much like the epic day this Make a Wish event went down.
7. Nachman has structured her film to illustrate how coming together for a cause can be at least as, if not more beneficial for the adults who helped make a small boy's dream come true than for the kid himself.
8. Batkid Begins uses its unforced sentiment and real emotional depth to (at least temporarily) slay any misanthropic feelings or cynical thoughts.
9. Get ready to have your spirits lifted by Batkid Begins, the most heartwarming film you're going to see this year.
10. There's a wealth of material to draw on, almost as if a documentary-to-be-named later was already on someone's mind. In any case, Nachman puts it all to good use, relaying the conception, planning, preparation and execution of the day.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Sweet and unabashedly sentimental, Batkid Begins is an uplifting look at a selfless act that brought a city together.


The critic consesnsus is: This provocative, lyrical drama mixes themes of forbidden sexuality and redemptive faith with a touch of humanism in a memorable, if disorienting, visual style.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. Martel's distinctive and fascinatingly innovative style warrants her being considered as an auteur.
2. ...at once humane, encompassing every shade of gray, and bracingly cold-eyed in its assessment of human endeavor.
3. With this well executed drama, a follow-up to her La Cienega, Lucrecia Martel emerges as a major Argentinean filmmaker.
4. Some of The Holy Girl is hard to follow, but the reward is Martel's ability to create a spiritual yet subtly lecherous mood.
5. what should have been a religious experience comes off more like a botched coming-of-age tale with some pungent atmospherics.
6. Martel's style is tentative, elusive, so much so that even the most conventional episodes benefit from her fresh perspective.
7. Obviously, this one is not for all tastes, but it is an impressive showing for Argentine filmmaker Martel, who's managed to do Almodovar-type material every bit as well as her mentor.
8. Director Lucrecia Martel's storytelling is spare to the point of being stingy.
9. Provokes a wealth of unsettling thought, even as it declines to pass any final judgments of its own.
10. Alche's crooked grin is as gleeful as the nose-wriggling enchantress in Bewitched. The elliptically implicit ending reminds me of Purple Noon minus the murder.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "bridge on the river kwai".

1. An epic movie which is large in scope and personnel, The Bridge on the River Kwai speaks of the code of honour amongst men during war, the respect shared by enemies of war, and the madness which war evokes.
2. [Lean] somehow managed a very pleasing balance.
3. A towering work.
4. It is a whale of a story, and in the telling of it, British Director David Lean does a whale of a job.
5. A gripping drama, expertly put together and handled with skill in all departments.
6. Guinness, Lean and British war cinema have never been better.
7. Antiheroic war epic.
8. One of THE great action sagas, and at the top of David Lean's form.
9. Alec Guinness' outstanding performance is one of the many things that work in David Lean's intriguing epic.
10. For what it is, it ain't bad, though it serves mainly as an illustration of the ancient quandary of revisionist moviemakers: if all you do is systematically invert cliches, you simply end up creating new ones.


1. All three [flashbacks] derive from A.A. Milne's original tales, but retain only a smidgen of his droll, easy-chair wit.
2. Has all the charm of cafeteria creamed spinach.
3. Unlike many feature length cartoons this one doesn't make any attempt to jazz up a classic tale with adult-friendly dialogue and plays strictly for kids. Most moppets should love the characters and incidents.
4. It may be Piglet's Big Movie, but it's a very minor entry in the Disney canon.
5. There's no villain, very little conflict, and practically no plot; it's appropriate for sensitive preschoolers and almost nobody else (except, perhaps, insomniacs).
6. Piglet's Big Movie is a delightfully entertaining film for young children--showing them that even smallest person can be the big hero.
7. Not very interesting, imaginative, or exciting.
8. The screenplay by Brian Hohlfeld incorporates three of the original Pooh stories but captures none of the charm of A.A. Milne's droll voice.
9. A flimsy flashback-ridden tale about the importance of friendship, loyalty and the notion that size doesn't matter when it comes to tackling seemingly insurmountable issues.
10. Pooh finally returns to his roots a heartwarmingly gentle tribute to Milne that's appropriate for even the youngest viewers.
What is the consensus?

Wholesome and charming entertainment for young children.


1. If this is what a Hollywood liberal conscience looks like, it's a glib and useless thing.
2. One can't help remembering that Clooney himself drew more humor and resonance out of the Iraqi dunes a decade ago in Three Kings.
3. The narrative flips and flops ruin the comedic flow.
4. The Men Who Stare at Goats is a handful of hilarious scenes looking for a movie.
5. For a movie about people learning to focus their minds, [it] proves to be strangely and disappointingly unfocused.
6. Heslov's deadpan handling of the movie's strange-but-true vibe, coupled with Clooney's full-tilt devotion to his outlandish character, smooths over the rougher patches of Peter Straughan's quirky screenplay.
7. perhaps the funniest war movie since Stripes.
8. does a slick job of putting assumptions of all types to the test, and resists the temptation to make sport of any of them while still retaining a sense of fun
9. Neither as quirky as it thinks it is nor as witty as it wants to be, The Men Who Stare at Goats is a low grade military send-up.
10. It's brisk and witty and the cast makes it all such great entertainment that you could almost overlook the more or less absent story.

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

Though The Men Who Stare at Goats is a mostly entertaining, farcical glimpse of men at war, some may find its satire and dark humor less than edgy.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "1082899-hush".

A ridiculous but wholly predictable potboiler with performances ranging from comatose to hysterical.


1. he King's Speech brings a country's amorphous fear of war and a sudden king's dread of his hesitant supremacy into perfect, uncommon focus.
2. It is an intelligent, winning drama fit for a king -- and the rest of us. And this year, there were far too few of those coming from Hollywood.
3. Lots of people will consider The King's Speech the best movie of the year; for me it's simply one of the best-made movies of the year.
4. The King's Speech is the kind of production that makes you ask: why can't every film be made this way?
5. Hooper keeps us focused on what's best about "The King's Speech": the sort of complicated, unusual relationship that is an ideal subject for a movie.
6. In a 24-hour news cycle, it's hard to believe a man with the elocution of a Pet Rock could be crowned King of the World. But at a time when the phonograph was high-tech and British figureheads weren't doing karaoke with Elton John, it could happen.
7. Firth and Rush are the best on-screen duo of the year.
8. The film everybody's talking about is, quite fittingly, a film about talking. And a great one, certainly as far as A-grade performance showcases go.
9. Straight from the school of Inspirational Tales from History, what it lacks in novelty it makes up for in executing this type of movie-making about as well as it can be done.
10. The King's Speech is anything but a stiff-upper-lip drama as constrained as a corseted queen. It is, however, perfect film fodder for discerning audiences starved for literate entertainment.
What is the consensus?

Colin Firth gives a masterful performance in The King's Speech, a predictable but stylishly produced and rousing period drama.


1. The question comes up often in life: What's your favorite movie? Since October 2001, the answer has been easy and one I shoot back reflexively almost before someone's finished the question: "Waking Life."
2. This inventive animated film, which takes Linklater back to his roots in Austin and Slacker, represents a summation of all the philosophical concerns that have defined him as spokesperson for Gen-X.
3. A true independent film that uses animation techniques to their utmost.
4. Form and content fit perfectly: even if the highbrow babbling gets a bit much, the hypnotic animation means that there is always something to watch, like characters suddenly dissolving into smoke or spectacles expanding.
5. A brilliant film that provokes thought, idea, and conversations within the audience through its surreal animation and incredibly profound conversations.
6. A far-out-man poetry slam, art exhibit and imaginative philosophical discourse all at once drifts gently down a stream of consciousness until merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, "Waking Life" is but a dream. Who says existential fiction must be dreary?
7. Love-it-or-hate-it film best for older teens.
8. a commercial ripoff designed to confuse art-house patrons
9. Truly special, truly different -- a wondrous talky roundelay about and for people who love life.
10. The endless philosophising is a bit sophomoric and more jokes would help, but this is one of a kind that grows more absorbing the longer it runs.
What is the consensus?

The talky, animated Waking Life is a unique, cerebral experience.


1. This tale of childhood buddies turned hit men is the kind of film where flames roar, waves crash and dropped bullets thud like bowling balls.
2. Johnny To highlights the visceral mood, rather than the plot or the characters
3. The Macao settings are beautifully rendered, and the dark humor is often very funny.
4. What's undeniable is that Johnnie To has, at long last, emerged as the equal of his very best contemporaries, no longer simply one of Hong Kong's most prolific filmmakers but one of its finest.
5. For anyone bored silly by the formulaic drivel churned out by the studios, Exiled is like a blast of cinematic adrenaline.
6. Exiled is a grabber from start to finish that should win new fans for cult-favorite To.
7. It's a boozy, weekend-bender of an action flick, lovely to look at and perhaps just a little bit silly.
8. ...there's nothing predictable about the film.
9. Nothing but a series of repetitive gunfights and bad conversations.
10. An intriguing setting and several witty, inventive directorial touches raise this above the average Hong Kong gangster thriller.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Exiled has non-stop action, tension and style -- making it an excellent summer action movie. Johnnie To brings beautiful scenery and camerawork to the film, enhancing the action even more.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. What really sets the picture apart and makes it an achievement worth remembering is its transcendent faith in what Abraham Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature."
2. A film light in plot but generous in spirit.
3. Touching and uplifting, Goodbye Solo is a small gem.
4. The emotion here is genuine, but the outlook is tough: in Bahrani's movies we're all aliens to each other.
5. A profoundly moving, raw, tender and gently uplifting drama that celebrates the importance of unconditional human compassion.
6. While Goodbye Solo is an easy film to admire, I have to admit that it never really had me riveted.
7. Another powerful film by Bahrani using the bare minimum of sets and sound track and an inexperienced actor in the lead role. A film that is well produced and convey a strong message.
8. An emotional lullaby about lost diverse souls trying to cope with the rigors of life in a confining, cultural cage of ambivalence...another tantalizing triumph for Bahrani
9. I felt the film was incredibly stripped down -- which is fine -- but there's nothing else to sort of help build it back up again.
10. Ramin Bahrani is a promising filmmaker who needs to work much harder at crafting dialogue and complete stories, and not believe the false praise being bestowed on him by the A.O. Scotts of the world.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

An original and thoughtful human drama, Goodbye Solo looks at relationships and loneliness while proving director Ramin Bahrani's is an important American voice.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. The uneven comedy had its hilarious moments.
2. This is not just a movie for potheads.
3. The Judd Apatow workshop turns its full attention to recreational drugs and the result is an enjoyable case of reefer madness.
4. Pineapple Express pulls off the amazing trick of elevating the stoner comedy into something resembling art.
5. Stoner-based or not, good comedy shouldn't need any help from the baggie in your pocket.
6. Sidesplitting, high attrition-rate, S&M slapstick where you get to savor the sight of characters getting tortured to death about five times each, if that's your bag of grass.
7. There's a lot less time available to get high than just laying low, for this chemically disoriented pair. Pineapple Express, a mixed bag of assorted fruits and nuts, with doper loons on the lam waiting to inhale.
8. The bromance genre is alive and well and it just gave me a pickle craving.
9. An odd but intermittently pleasing experiment that might lose stoners with its gore and action fans with its glazed, circular weed chat.
10. I can live without the drug murders and chases, but sitting around over breakfast with some new friends makes for a primo comedy, and another crowd-friendly hit for Judd Apatow.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Both funny and scatter shot, this loose-knit action/buddy/stoner comedy bridges genres and keeps a steady tempo of low ball laughs.


1. ...could have been a superb dark fantasy, but takes its own malarkey seriously.
2. almost hard to catch your breath
3. A crooked road indeed.
4. The screenplay stretches the viewer's credulity far beyond the breaking point, asking us to accept dozens of absurd contrivances and coincidences.
5. A dank, mechanical exercise that refuses to have any fun.
6. The climax is so implausible we stop caring and start scratching our heads!
7. The plot takes forever to get moving, and when it does, it can't justify its excesses.
8. This is a sloppily made film, imitative of the smoother made The Parallax View.
9. Offensively phony and unintentionally hilarious!
10. Arlington Road is a movie trying so hard for intelligence, quality and deeper meanings, you can almost sense the strain under the celluloid.

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

A suspenseful thriller led by strong cast performances built around a somewhat implausible story.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. A funny and strangely affecting gender-bender saga that gives rock and roll movies a much-needed jolt.
2. Surrounds a weird, funny and touching story with a knockout series of songs performed by an exceptional cast.
3. Shows all the promise of becoming a cult movie, with the polish, colour and textual fluidity of a studio comedy but a distinctly underground sensibility and countless memorable moments.
4. Like its protagonist, Hedwig succeeds on its own terms, brazenly asserting itself with no regrets or apologies.
5. Deliciously innovative and refreshing.
6. Often hilarious, sometimes outrageous, intermittently nonsensical and goofy, Hedwig is nonetheless a never-less-than endearing cinematic experience.
7. The show belongs wholly to Mitchell, although good moments are also claimed by Andrea Martin, Miriam Shor, and Michael Pitt in what are otherwise sketchy roles.
8. Loud, colorful and affecting.
9. It is fairly short and fairly enjoyable.
10. It's hard to not get caught up in the sense of exuberance and or to ignore the amount of energy and creativity that went into it.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Hedwig and the Angry Inch may very well be the next Rocky Horror midnight movie. It not only knows how to rock, but Hedwig's story has an emotional poignancy.


1. Clocking in at three long hours, Casino is an entertaining and engrossing film, but just drags a simple story into a sprawling, epic tale that desperately needs a little trimming.
2. After coming out gangbusters in its first and finest hour, the 180-minute movie loses all its chips in the remaining two.
3. The whole package is a riveting account and a well-told story.
4. Engrossing from start to finish.
5. This bloated three-hour misfire this is a major fumble.
6. It overstays its welcome.
7. Scorsese and company do what they do very well -- they've got it down. It's a system unto itself.
8. Finely detailed analysis of the mob-controlled casinos in the 70s, but it lacks the soul of Scorsese's Goodfellas.
9. Whether you find it exhilarating, expendable or exhausting -- and you will find it exhausting -- Martin Scorsese's Casino is the spectacular last word on urban sprawl.
10. Scorsese and co. will never make a bad film, only another one.
What is the consensus?

Impressive ambition and bravura performances from an outstanding cast help Casino pay off in spite of a familiar narrative that may strike some viewers as a safe bet for director Martin Scorsese.


1. Refreshing in its honest simplicity.
2. Muniz is great, displaying more talent here than you're used to seeing in Malcolm.
3. Are guaranteed to cause alarm and even tears.
4. A charming, old fashioned kids' flick that embraces its clichés and serves them up with a contagious, indomitable spirit...
5. A pleasant, entertaining yarn.
6. They may find themselves mystified and a little bored by a movie designed to leave their adult companions misty-eyed.
7. If you've got a 5 to 10 year old, take a family trip to see this wholesome story.
8. It is moving, intelligent and wise. And for a kid's flick, that's almost a miracle.
9. No dog person can sit through this homespun, relaxed picture without shedding a tear.
10. This is such a sweet, healthy and refreshingly old-fashioned movie that there's a temptation to oversell it.

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

Critics say My Dog Skip is cute, wholesome entertainment for the family. It's especially designed to appeal to your sentiment, but you might find yourself choking up just the same.


Which movie is the following review about?

Every scene has it's purpose, every shot is meticulously used.


The critic consesnsus is: A sequel to a remake, Cheaper 2 wastes its solid cast in scenes of over-the-top, predictable humor.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. The humor in Sam Harper's script is as malnourished as Hilary Duff appears to be.
2. Even the bloopers during the closing credits stink.
3. Running a painfully long 100 minutes, the movie is made up of a tiresome series of predicable, slapstick moments.
4. For the most part, director Adam Shankman keeps the mayhem comprehensible.
5. It aims to be pleasant and good-natured, which it is. There are enough laughs scattered throughout to keep everything moderately amusing, and the cast is likeable.
6. When cutesy family-oriented comedies start to show the strained buffoonery of its leading star (Martin), you know it's time to hang up the hat and call it the day.
7. The movie may play better on video screens in the back of minivans, but I suspect even seat-belted children will remain unimpressed.
8. While their last movie relied on boisterous physical humor, this is built on a family feud.
9. This by-the-numbers pratfall-fest is as synthetically generic as a "Happy Holidays" card from your realtor.
10. Shankman drops the ball at the finish line, jettisoning the tough-love fun for cheap sentimentality.


Write a one sentence review of the movie "the salt of the earth".

While the work it honors may pose thorny ethical questions that Salt of the Earth neglects to answer, it remains a shattering, thought-provoking testament to Sebastiăo Salgado's career.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "rubber".

1. amidst all the exploding heads and modernist trickery, Dupieux is not just inviting us to roll with his surreal detours, but setting us on a collision course with the absurdities of cinema itself.
2. Few nice ideas. Should've been a short.
3. Dupieux's idea, apparently, is that movie audiences are so stupid they'll consume anything, and the more tickets he sells for this arch little piece of junk, the more he'll be proved right. If I were you, I'd refuse to give him that satisfaction.
4. An April Fool's prank so audacious and unrepentant that even its failures become a part of the bigger joke.
5. It goes to every length to be the anti-horror film and merely just a form of performance art...
6. Part slasher-movie spoof, part self-reflexive Theater of the Absurd.
7. Surprisingly watchable for a one-joke time-waster.
8. Picture Monty Python writ ing an unusually odd "Twilight Zone" episode directed by surrealist Luis Buńuel. Or just empty your mind of all sense: This is "Rubber."
9. Nobody's safe -- least of all moviegoers -- with a killer tire on the loose.
10. Spielberg announced his arrival with a killer truck. By making us believe in a thinking tire, Dupieux has outdone him. Appropriately, in this film's parting shot, the Hollywood sign beckons.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "arbitrage".

1. Between this cast and the conviction Jarecki brings to the table, the film feels incredibly accomplished for a first feature.
2. Between Gere matching wits with a police detective played by Tim Roth and him having to explain himself to the steely Sarandon, Arbitrage is never dull.
3. Jarecki invests his film with a great sense of pacing and tension. It's a well-crafted plot, effortlessly juggling financial and family drama, with a Colombo-esque complication nipping at its heels.
4. The stakes of Arbitrage never feel quite high enough, no matter how good it all looks.
5. Two movies in one- only one of which is good. Despite it's flaws, Gere is incredible in the performance of his life.
6. Contrivance does indeed flare up, but that's part of the fun, all the more reason for a fat cat to squirm and sweat over the course of a week in his life and 100 minutes of running time.
7. Jarecki, it's clear, has the talent to make shrewdly pleasurable Hollywood movies. Here's hoping Arbitrage is the first of many.
8. Arbitrage is competing between the narrative form of the corporate thriller and the inherent corruption and irresponsibility of those embedded in the industry. Unfortunately it breaks even.
9. Tim Roth turns in a momentous performance as a detective in a movie showing that billionaires do not always have it made.
10. 'Arbitrage' switches genres mid-movie and pulls you every which way dramatically but never connects you to any emotions that matter.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. Demolition Man is sleek and empty as well as brutal and pointless. It feels computer engineered, untouched by human hands. A real pod movie.
2. Stallone is surprisingly good in this fast, funny and violent futuristic action film.
3. Forget your preconceptions, but not your brain cells and sense of irony.
4. Not a bad mid-90s sci fi flick - and with a young Sandra Bullock in spandex to boot!
5. Stallone and Snipes are a great double-act
6. Featuring intense action, exceptional special effects, and a healthy sense of humor, it is the film Last Action Hero wanted--and failed--to be.
7. Demolition Man is a significant artifact of our time or, at least, of this week.
8. Enjoyable pop-culture junk actioner.
9. A great villain goes a long way toward making an action movie successful and Snipes certainly does more than his share to make this an enjoyable film.
10. Chock-full of obnoxious dialogue, terrible acting, and oh-so-clever product placement.

A better-than-average sci-fi shoot-em-up with a satirical undercurrent, Demolition Man is bolstered by strong performances by Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, and Sandra Bullock.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Violent, frenzied, foul-mouthed ghost comedy.
2. Story was originally conceived as an episode of "Tales From the Crypt," and that is perhaps what it should have remained, as the thinness of the conceit shows throughout, painfully so in the first half.
3. At times the relentless special effects and tangled plotting veer towards visual and narrative overkill, but the final tonal swerve is shocking and effective.
4. Despite being awful in almost every respect, The Frighteners does offer one small pleasure: R. Lee Ermey parodying his Full Metal Jacket drill sergeant character.
5. It actually works up till its last few minutes.
6. An incredibly underrated scare-comedy from Peter Jackson that deserves a much wider audience.
7. The actors can't keep the film's mood from verging on hysteria as the story roams all over the map. "The Frighteners" has flitted everywhere, even to heaven and hell, before it's over.
8. Quirky Peter Jackson film that's half comedy and half horror/gore-fest. Mostly enjoyable results, although Fox a bit miscast.
9. Woulda been five stars, but the cop-out ending smacks of the test-screening process.
10. The talented director of "Heavenly Creatures" has pulled together a film that wants to be everything to everyone simultaneously.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Boasting top-notch special effects and exuberant direction from Peter Jackson, The Frighteners is visually striking but tonally uneven.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "blackfish 2013".

1. You'll never look at Shamu, and the company that exploits him, the same way again.
2. Important, informative, imperfect.
3. The film may be depressing. But even with a terrible, watery musical score, it's also good.
4. A chilling exploration of the life of an orca in captivity, this documentary forces us to look at zoos and especially aquarium shows in a completely new light.
5. To analyze real-life tragedy we must understand it so we can prevent it, Cowperthwaite justly argues. Not so we can sigh and hope it doesn't happen again.
6. While Cowperthwaite's film opens with a simple question about the behavior of a single killer whale, it ends up mounting a persuasive ethical argument against keeping orcas in captivity.
7. As horribly gripping as a serial-killer thriller, though the real villain is not the ostensible culprit, but its human captors.
8. "Blackfish" is no trumped up horror story fueled by Hollywood brand names and special effects. In this riveting documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, all of the creatures are real, and all seem entitled to the serious chip on their shoulders.
9. An acclaimed and chastening documentary about what happens to human beings - injury, mutilation, death - when they pen orcas in sea parks.
10. Behavioural experts describe the orca brain's advanced capacity for emotion, while former trainers reveal the stories spun by SeaWorld to convince its visitors that the whales enjoy their work.


1. It's a feast for World War II movie buffs and Fuller fans alike, as well as a fascinating companion piece to Steven Spielberg's more recent contribution to the genre.
2. The reconstruction is a bigger, longer and better movie than the one released in 1980, but is less than the revelation for which one might have hoped.
3. If you don't elect to watch The Big Red One through the lens of Sam Fuller's mystique ... you'll realize that it has been celebrated in ways that essentially make virtues of its flaws.
4. The director's gift for bare-knuckles lyricism rescues scene after scene.
5. To see this seamless 'reconstruction' -- consisting of some 15 entirely new sequences as well as augmentations to 23 others -- is to behold a masterpiece revealed.
6. 'The Reconstruction,' which clocks in at 2 hours, 43 minutes, with not a single extraneous frame, elevates the work from a robust genre film to a full-blown epic.
7. Even though it has gained more than 45 minutes, it doesn't feel longer. Scenes that were choppy or half-baked are now allowed to play out as Fuller intended.
8. It's sometimes so explicit, corny and odd that you can understand why a studio had second thoughts about it. But it also now has the feel of a true epic.
9. An American masterpiece by one of the last great American directors.
10. Fuller's only A-budget movie is still among the lesser works of this frequently brilliant filmmaker.

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

The reconstruction of Samuel Fuller's epic account of his days in North Africa in World War II elevates the film into the pantheon of great war movies.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. It's smart, insightful and frightening, featuring three of the year's best and most complex performances.
2. I just hope that people realize its hidden virtues, the ones that dig a little deeper than its "true story" and Carell's makeup.
3. ...tautly acted but dramatically deficient
4. If I had to make a list of movies I'm saddest about not having liked, this would rank near the top.
5. Foxcatcher might just be the feel-bad movie of the year. But it's so well-acted that audiences won't want to miss its dark, chilling yet restrained story.
6. It's about manhood and about lost men, about people needing to find something, anything, at any cost.
7. Simultaneously understated and grippingly edgy, this is an arresting examination of naivete, mismatched worlds and old-fashioned American oddness.
8. Beautifully acted and impeccably mounted, it is light on historical details and heavy on atmosphere, character and chintz.
9. We expect expert acting from Ruffalo, and we get it, but the secret hero of "Foxcatcher" - and the performance you keep coming back to - is Channing Tatum as Mark, a lost boy in the skin of a brute.
10. Foxcatcher is an arresting look the pitfalls of the American dream. Steve Carrell mesmerizes.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

A chilling true crime drama, Foxcatcher offers Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum a chance to shine -- and all three of them rise to the challenge.


1. This film features what look like living plush toys.
2. Me, I want a hula hoop.
3. Between the occasional amusing joke and catchy musical number, this Alvin update is a very soulless movie.
4. You could do worse.
5. Shockingly, the movie's easy to like -- an anti-Hannah Montana parable in which young performers discover they prefer the comfort and security of home to the high-pressure glitz of rock and roll stardom.
6. Hollywood continues its tired milking of old television properties with Alvin and the Chipmunks, a slick updating of the musical-cartoon franchise.
7. Sure, rodents are hot this year. But unlike Ratatouille's chef prodigy Remy, these mischief makers bring nothing new to the table.
8. Alvin and the Chipmunks goes in one eye and out the other, featuring a CGI Alvin, Simon and Theodore interacting with a human-ish world.
9. The film engages for about 30 minutes, or about 10 minutes longer than you might expect. This picture, after all, has only one idea: chipmunks that talk and sing. It's the same idea that fueled novelty recordings and a two cartoon series.
10. It's a free-fall into total plastic. Kids deserve better. Alvin, Simon and Theodore deserve better. But 'tis the season to take what you get.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Though cutely rendered, Alvin and the Chipmunks suffers from bland potty humor and a rehashed kids' movie formula.


1. Why didn't the producers save all the money they spent on these great sets and brilliant special effects for a script worthy of them?
2. Fans of both O'Barr's source inspiration and Brandon Lee's initial embodiment may want to nit-pick, but this Crow has something to crow about.
3. Vincent Perez is game, but he--nor anyone involved in this sloppy production--can erase the fond memories of the late Brandon Lee.
4. I highly recommend watching the original, instead of this dud.
5. Looks pretty, but bad scripting makes this an incoherent sequel to the goth classic/
6. Worst of the Crow franchise, which should have ended with Brandon Lee and the entertaining first film.
7. Memo to Edward R. Pressman: Gloomy Goth teens like the Romeo and Juliet stuff, not parental devotion from beyond the grave.
8. Even for teens hooked on the grandiloquence of death-metal masochism, the movie may seem closer to an endless Sunday in church.
9. Although the setting has moved from Detroit to LA, the stylised urban wasteland, morbid atmosphere and basic plot remain the same.
10. Stunningly awful.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

The Crow: City of Angels is a sloppy pretender that captures neither the mood nor energy of the original.


1. A bloody good offbeat relationship vampire film.
2. Both sweet and unsettling.
3. "Let the Right One In" is a much scarier vampire movie than the megahit "Twilight," but that's no great shakes. Would you believe, though, that it's also a much better love story?
4. The best fantasy stories excel because they give new perspective to real-life issues through the lens of the supernatural, and the Swedish film uses vampirism to tackle adolescence in all its glorious agony.
5. The casting of the youngsters is nearly perfect.
6. Let the Right One In can safely be called a classic, even before its name is pulled from the theater marquee.
7. As Oskar and Eli grow closer, in scenes with a tender intimacy, the violence also turns more personal.
8. A Swedish import that uses its frozen environment to great advantage.
9. A tale that proves there's life in the undead yet, when they fall into the hands of imaginative storytellers.
10. John Ajvide Lindqvist's script (from his novel) nails adolescent pain perfectly and is realized by Tomas Alfredson's expert direction.

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

Let the Right One In reinvigorates the seemingly tired vampire genre by effectively mixing scares with intelligent storytelling.


Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Crystalline filmmaking.
2. A gleeful riff on a very old genre; the Coens make it sing anew with wit, intensity, and irresistible black humor.
3. The film is a crossroads, more gratifying for the future directions it provided for its creators than for the pleasures it affords its audience.
4. Not a false move, a bad angle, an awkward line or a wanting performance at any point.
5. The Coen Brothers certainly know noir. This mob tale shimmers with sparkling dialogue.
6. A screenplay of pure gold. I still think it's the best Coens film yet.
7. It is consistently good, but I suppose I have come to expect more from the Coens.
8. As for that story, it's good enough, but honestly I fail to see what everyone's all worked up about.
9. Even though the plot is propelled by lust and vengeance, there's no heat in the movie.
10. An amazingly entertaining film, loaded with zesty dialogue, gorgeously staged sequences and a bevy of wild characters.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Though possibly more notable for its distinctive style than an airtight story, this Coen brothers take on the classic gangster flick features sharp dialogue, impressive cinematography, and a typically quirky cast of characters.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. A tepid movie with a few decent dance sequences and a lot of frustrating sexual tension.
2. For my money, it's the girls' friendship that holds the film together.
3. The production disappoints both as modern-day dance film and Jungle Fever redux.
4. There's a nice little dance movie waiting to step out of Save the Last Dance. Unfortunately, the story keeps tripping it up.
5. As one might expect from a film credited as an 'MTV production,' Save the Last Dance is one-half realistic portrayal of youth, and one-half pure cinematic pablum.
6. [Has] two really good performances by their respective leads.
7. Quite a bit smarter, and more entertaining, than the majority of what some people call teenybopper flicks.
8. Stiles and Thomas supply what this movie needs most: a heartbeat.
9. Overall, Save the Last Dance profits from well-developed principals, a vigorous sound track provided by Mark Isham, and a feel for the grit and warmth alike of an otherwise impoverished neighborhood.
10. In the spirit of all MTV-spawned productions, Save the Last Dance is a trite amalgamation of themes and scenes from other, more interesting, movies.

This teen romance flick feels like a predictable rehashing of other movies.


1. McCarthy puts a mark on each film, identifying it as distinctly his own. A couple more like them, and he'll be knighted an auteur.
2. This gifted writer/director knows how to illuminate those moments in which people realize they have become essential to each other -- that each person's life has been gently changed by the other's presence.
3. The script here is very strong.
4. The film works foremost as the experience of watching Richard Jenkins inhabit his role.
5. A wonderful human story, a beautifully directed and acted film of rare grace that just might renew your faith in life- and movies.
6. [Richard Jenkins] gets the role of a lifetime in this powerful second film by writer-director Thomas McCarthy.
7. Richard Jenkins and "The Visitor" make lovely music together. It's a case of a veteran character actor slipping on a leading role like the most comfortable pair of pants in the world.
8. The Visitor is America working out the demons of Sept. 11, 2001. Director Thomas McCarthy brilliantly focuses on characters who love life despite the less savory circumstances surrounding them.
9. not really a film you enjoy, per se. It's more like a feeling you get used to before finally accepting.
10. Thoroughly, refreshingly unique, a film that weaves a tight, timely tale that is equal parts heart-warming and wrenching.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?

The Visitor is a heartfelt, humanistic drama that deftly explores identity, immigration, and other major post-9/11 issues.


1. The film is very, very funny; and it is very, very exhausting.
2. Ultimately, the movie will be remembered (if at all) for its guerilla marketing campaign, which the city of Boston took to be a terrorist threat and cost Turner Broadcasting $2 million, more than the cost of making the film.
3. Certainly original, often funny, and occasionally even inspired.
4. Skip this feature and wait until it makes its way to DVD or television.
5. I didn't feel like I was watching somebody else's idea of a joke; I felt like I was watching somebody else's idea of a nightmare.
6. I have never taken an illegal substance; movies have always been my drug of choice, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters was like a big old cinematic acid trip.
7. There's ultimately something exhilarating -- and, dare I say, liberating? -- about the film's chaotic avant-garde energy.
8. You know, if you're not familiar with the television series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" then you might as well not waste your time reading about "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters."
9. Occasional amusement aside, this is a tedious 86-minutes worth of utterly random movie.
10. While not for the faint of heart, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is perfectly suited for the seriously twisted followers--and new recruits--of the Cartoon Network show.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?

The non sequitur humor of Aqua Teen Hunger Force will surely appeal to its built-in fanbase, but for the uninitiated, the premise wears thin.


1. A non-stop buzz machine that runs on boobs and blood, offering everything you'd ever want to see in a movie whose logline is 'Thousands of prehistoric piranha attack Spring Breakers.
2. The definitive film for this latest 3-D era: It exploits sex and gore the same way studios are exploiting moviegoers with 3-D ticket prices.
3. Though it's campy and gory, but for all its hype, it's best to save your money rather than spring the dough for special effects that aren't that spectacular -- or even eye-popping.
4. Delivers exactly what you'd expect: gushers of blood, ripped flesh by the kilo, and acres of bare booty and boobs (some of them real).
5. A ridiculous gore-fest that falls completely flat in terms of character, dialogue, and logic but pops off the screen in the areas in which it really counts for a movie about prehistoric man-eating fish.
6. Too much Jersey Shore, not enough piranhas.
7. Guilty pleasures belong to August, 3D belongs in the grindhouse... and when the authorities tell you to get the hell out of the water, you really, really should.
8. As for the gore, well, if Aja couldn't deliver that, it would be like Al Gore being at a loss for words.
9. Nothing more than a fun summer popcorn movie.
10. These bros and bimbos are jerk tartare. Go, fish, go!

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

Playing exactly to expectations for a movie about killer fish run amok, Piranha 3-D dishes out gore, guffaws and gratuitous nudity with equal glee.


Which movie is the following review about?

If Hitchcock had made What About Bob?, this engrossing and blackly funny French psychological thriller would be it.


The critic consesnsus is: A Cat in Paris depicts a stylish, imaginative world with a wonderful soundtrack and Hitchcockian overtones.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. A Cat in Paris is animation, yes, but the story, its many threads and mature theme is aimed squarely at the adult and older teen audience that can appreciate a stirring drama in anime form.
2. A charming little French animation (not suitable for very young children,) directed by Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli...
3. A barely feature-length diversion that lacks the energy to grip younger viewers or the depth to impress adults, but it earns respect with its makers' dedication to old-school craft.
4. A charming, visually sparkling Parisian fantasy with a dark edge.
5. A slight story but delicately drawn with a feline, jazzy score.
6. A Cat in Paris, France's recent Oscar-nominated animated feature, suffuses its story of gangsters and thieves with a playfulness as nimble as the feline after which it's named.
7. Unoriginal and mired in bad jokes.
8. It's so wonderfully fun that I'm now hoping it wins the award come Oscar night.
9. ...will delight adults as well as the children who are its target audience,
10. Jean-Loup Felicioni and Alain Gagnol draw inspiration from Expressionist painters to give their short but not-too-sweet animation its distinctive fluid style...its light and shade perfectly matching the night-time skyline where much of the action is set.


1. The cast just about escapes with its dignity after this derivative, predictable urban thriller.
2. From its non-committal title downwards -- we're a bit worse than ankle deep, but not quite neck deep -- the film includes a final shot that is almost surreal in its implausibility. Waist Deep? More like Deep Waste.
3. The worst is saved for last: just when you think the movie has shown the courage of its 'gritty' convictions, it hits you with schmaltz that would shame a Hallmark card.
4. Just looking at the genre, this is a cut above the normal. This is by no means an endorsement of this movie, but it is better than most.
5. ...strangely uninvolving...
6. I saw Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie and Clyde is a major American movie. Waist Deep, sir, is no Bonnie and Clyde.
7. A waste of time!
8. Would most likely have made for a decent late-night Cinemax staple, but its stabs at higher significance only bring on the giggles.
9. If you're looking for gunning gangsta action on a hot summer night, Waist Deep is an effective-enough story of urban outlaws in love and on the run. It's sweet, sweaty stuff, for a while at least.
10. A carjacking leads to violence, revenge and antiheroes impossible to root for in Waist Deep, an urban gangster crime-thriller.
What is the consensus?

A well-meaning B-movie that suffers from a cliche-ridden script and poorly drawn characters that fail to inspire much sympathy.


Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. If you're a fan of Hong Kong police flicks, then you know that at any given moment, it seems like 50 percent of the force is deep undercover in the triads.
2. I really wanted to see a fun mindless martial arts film. But the story is so familiar that it beoomes boring.
3. It's all about the extensive climax, a gunfight turned mixed martial arts throwdown.
4. Insensible.
5. Those with a taste for bone-crushing martial arts executed with real skill and flair are not likely to find anything better on American screens for some time.
6. Considerably more importance is placed on the chops and the socks than the story, and yet the action sequences aren't terribly memorable.
7. Catch this one in theatres while you have the chance. The breathless, breakneck action of Flash Point can only truly be appreciated 40 feet high.
8. There's nothing that I dislike about FLASH POINT, but I do wish it could be even more than it is
9. Donnie Yen is famous for combining martial arts traditions into his own unique fighting style and Collin Chou, who studied with Sammo Hung, is up to the task of holding his own.
10. Yen has developed a recent passion for mixed martial arts, and his more traditional punches and flying kicks are supplemented by some close-quarters Muay Thai kicks and even some jujitsu submission holds. Ultimate Fighting Championship fans will be happy.

Flash Point features some nice mindless martial-arts action, but too much of the already thin story treads familiar ground.


1. The pacing is frantic, and the character interplay generally engaging. Perhaps the problem is that when it's all over, I'm not quite sure whether there was a point beyond a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
2. It's Tarantino's gutter poetry that detonates True Romance. This movie is dynamite.
3. The movie may be stylistically visceral, but it's aesthetically corrupt. It might as well have been called Pump Up the Violence.
4. Too often the bloodbath mentality simply washes away the film's more appealing elements.
5. The movie has a kind of goofy charm.
6. This film's various outrages are committed unapologetically, and are very much in the service of its bizarre story.
7. An instant cult classic. Not only is it self-referential, stylish and exciting, it's also better written than most genre films, with plenty of memorable dialogue, compelling characters and yes, true romance.
8. True Romance, despite not displaying Tarantino at his best, is still a Tarantino film and it delivers the goods to all those who expect some stylish entertainment.
9. If you're in the mood for this sort of absurd, violent nonsense ... True Romance does deliver.
10. Made with such energy, such high spirits, such an enchanting goofiness, that it's impossible to resist.

What is a brief summary of the following reviews?

Fueled by Quentin Tarantino's savvy screenplay and a gallery of oddball performances, Tony Scott's True Romance is a funny and violent action jaunt in the best sense.


Write an ordered list of reviews about "offside".

1. As in his previous films, such as Crimson Gold, director Jafar Panahi does not embitter his story with acrimony, but lets the absurdity of its situations bear silent witness to the injustices portrayed.
2. The biggest challenge in Offside is not who wins the game, but which daring enough girls manage to sneak into the stadium.
3. Although its message is deadly serious, Offside is almost lighthearted, filled with wit and winning characters.
4. A beguiling, deceptively simple slice-of-life drama, shot cinéma vérité style, Offside reaffirms Jafar Panahi's preeminence as one of the most humanistic and socially progressive filmmakers in contemporary Iranian cinema.
5. A funny, poignant, and jubilant Iranian film about some passionate female soccer fans that ends with a mystical moment of oneness.
6. The director shoots largely on location -- parts were filmed at Azadi Stadium during an actual match -- and mixes fiction and documentary so deftly we can't tell which is which.
7. For all its implicit politics, Offside is a pure joy; the young women are feisty and lovable. One can even imagine a few imams chuckling through their beards.
8. Sweetly affecting... The girls' plucky rebellion and camaraderie escape in tiny episodes that subtly reflect upon the ridiculousness of Iranian law.
9. This is thought provoking and lots and lots of fun.
10. It's a very frank film about the daily frustrations for women who just want to enjoy their lives. It's a comedy, but of a fairly bitter sort.


The critic consesnsus is: Leslie Nielsen's comic gifts are undisputed, but Spy Hard's lazy script and slapdash direction fail to take advantage of them.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. When Spy Hard abruptly ends after only 81 minutes, you sense that it has used up every last round of available ammunition. It was simply exhausted and couldn't move another inch.
2. A dreadfully unfunny comedy that takes Naked Gun-like sketches and rehashes them without a whit of style or energy.
3. This movie unfortunately wastes a perfectly promising idea -- satirizing James Bond films along with any other pop-culture celluloid phenomenon that crosses the filmmakers' minds.
4. Most of the humor falls flatter than Steve Forbes' flat tax pitch.
5. You know you're in trouble when the highlight of a movie comes during its opening credits.
6. You won't laugh hard at Spy Hard. And that's not because the jokes aren't funny. Most of them aren't even jokes.
7. Never consistently humorous.
8. Filled to the bursting point with witless, sub-Mad magazine movie parodies, pointless cameos by a seemingly endless parade of has-beens, and once-hysterical, now stale jokes lifted straight from Airplane! and the original Naked Gun...
9. Ugh.
10. This movie may not be brilliant, but every now and then it's really funny.