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Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. That I'm aghast must be a form of overload, and as baffled as I am by this dark underbelly of a film, I did enjoy it.
2. ...flirts with sadism, but it's much more than a sick stunt.
3. Dogtooth is one of the funniest films of the past 12 months, an unforgettable social-satire, a devious little test of endurance for brave movie-lovers and the best argument against home-schooling since The Jonas Brothers.
4. A kind of ingenious horror show you just can't take your eyes off of.
5. A miserable, consistently worthless piece of work...
6. Cinephiles (have) reacted to Lanthimos' skewed vision in much the same way as the confined children at the heart of the story: through the inquisitive, excited eye of someone catching a glimpse of a new worldview for the first time.
7. It's a triumph of a filmmaker having everything his own way -- for better or for worse.
8. To put it mildly, "Dogtooth" is not for everyone, but it can grow on you even if you think you've rejected its influence.
9. This is the second feature for Lanthimos, and it's a leap from his well-received debut Kinetta. He skilfully doles out tantalizing pieces of information, keeping the viewer in a constant state of suspense and wonder.
10. The true dark-horse nominee among this year's foreign-language Oscar contenders, Dogtooth leaves bite marks that stick around long after you are released from its grip.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

It'll be too disturbing -- and meandering -- for some, but Dogtooth is as disturbing and startlingly original as modern filmmaking gets.
Write a one sentence review of the movie "ali".

Though perhaps no film could fully do justice to the fascinating life and personality of Muhammad Ali, Mann's direction and Smith's performance combine to pack a solid punch.
1. Do herói fragilizado e patético ao fascinante vilăo, passando pela fotografia inesquecível, a trilha surpreendente e uma Viena inigualável, o filme é simplesmente perfeito.
2. Welles gives Harry a mask of irony that turns all moral judgment back on itself. He turns a mass murderer into a wry rogue, and makes his villainy all the more horrifying because we rather like him.
3. This movie is a mishmash of many different talents coming together in a way that seems magical.
4. Each dimension of the film's partnerships is magnificent.
5. This moody thriller about love & friendship, loyalty & betrayal and honesty and greed is a haunting tale whose images remain long after the film has concluded.
6. Reed ends film with the one of the longest but most powerful shots in the history of cinema.
7. A classic.
8. ...one of the most robust and intelligent thrillers ever made, an incredibly effective mood piece, and a model of Old School craftsmanship and polish.
9. If The Third Man is a tragedy, it isn't just the tragedy of a hobbled city, scribbled with ruins and parsed into zones of occupation that can't communicate and don't cooperate.
10. Greene's story and screenplay, which he accurately described as "a comic thriller," is a gift that keeps on giving, with patter that's never less than brilliant. [Criterion Blu-ray]

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

The Bodyguard is a cheesy, melodramatic potboiler with occasional moments of electricity from Whitney Houston.
The critic consesnsus is: Although not terrible, the sluggishly paced Insurrection plays like an extended episode of the TV series.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

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

them 2007
1. ...Steve Miner is no Carpenter.
2. ...a welcome resurrection for which fans will undoubtedly be grateful.
3. Nothing more than a dull retread of worn-out cliches, buoyed only by the much-anticipated return of a familiar face.
4. Halloween: Twenty Years Later has forgotten the wellspring from which it flows.
5. I'm currently stuck watching the revival of a movie form that appalled me the first time around, then disappeared from view after a torrent of thoughtless re-workings that resembled bloody tape loops.
6. If you're a Halloween fan, you're probably over 30, and this film will suit you--you need your sleep.
7. I thought the original Halloween was overrated, the 2 or three cheapie sequels I've seen were even worse, and this new entry is still crap.
8. The biggest mystery about Halloween: H20 is why the filmmakers bothered to send it to theaters.
9. The showdown is grueling, long, with too many climaxes and improbable events, but Laurie's up for it. And that's what you love about her. She does not quit. She's bound and determined to decapitate his ass.
10. Taken as a sequel to Halloween, this is just above average; taken as a sequel to Halloween Two, which is where most of its backstory comes from, it looks terrific.
What is the consensus?

Halloween: H2O is the best of the many sequels, yet still pales in comparison to the original Halloween.
Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Curtis and Lohan shine in their roles, bringing layers of comedy, drama, romance and, yes, sentiment just when needed most.
2. Freaky Friday may be insubstantial, but what's there is remarkably watchable.
3. No Academy Awards here, but thanks largely to Jamie Lee Curtis it provides a good time.
4. Extremely enjoyable, sharply scripted family comedy with superb comic performances.
5. It's cute, and Jamie Lee Curtis is wonderful as always, but this Disney remake just isn't funny enough. Take your family, not your critical sensibilities.
6. Updated and overly sexed, this remake is heavy on the set-up and light on laughs.
7. A funny and energetic body-swap comedy, with a nicely warm and sympathetic approach.
8. Despite the awful history of parent/child switching movies, Freaky Friday strikes gold with funny, first-rate performances from Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan.
9. Aside from the awkwardness of having the Lohan-aged boy interest fall for her in Curtis' appearance, Freaky Friday remains a squeaky-clean generic romp...
10. It's a conventional but pleasantly cosy remake of the 1976 Jodie Foster body-swap comedy. And in the oldest tradition of Disney moviemaking, you can be sure of a few life lessons thrown in between the laughs.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan charm in Mark Waters' nicely pitched -- and Disney's second -- remake of the 1976 hit.
Which movie is the following review about?

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

coherence 2013
Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. If one can continue to see a work such as this 35 years later and still remain entranced by its spectacle and its drama, then surely, that is a classic indeed.
2. [It] remains one of the most intelligent, handsome, and influential of all war epics.
3. Riveting from beginning to end, featuring stellar performances, amazing cinematography, and a story without a trace of fat, the film does everything an epic is supposed to do -- and more.
4. Elegant and literate.
5. Approach it from whatever angle you like, performances, script, cinematography, score; David Lean's sweeping biography of T.E. Lawrence is unarguably magnificent.
6. The only way to properly see Lean's overstuffed epic is on the big screen, the better to appreciate the glorious desert vistas, Maurice Jarre's soaring score and the glowing performance by then-unknown Peter O'Toole as a messianic T.E. Lawrence.
7. The passage of time has only proved how difficult it is to run ideas, history, characterisation and landscape in harness on this sort of scale.
8. Lean's epic biography of the enigmatic and complex British hero is visually mesmerizing, even if it omits crucial aspects of Lawrence's life, and it boasts a radical, riveting performance from Peter O'Toole.
9. A gorgeous epic with an outstanding performance from Peter O'Toole.
10. One of the rare instances of "Oscars" ending in right hands.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

The epic of all epics, Lawrence of Arabia cements director David Lean's status in the filmmaking pantheon with nearly four hours of grand scope, brilliant performances, and beautiful cinematography.
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Reheats old material and serves it as if it were bold and original.

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

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Playing as both an exciting sci-fi adventure and a remarkable portrait of childhood, Steven Spielberg's touching tale of a homesick alien remains a piece of movie magic for young and old.
The critic consesnsus is: Filled with shrill gags and middling slapstick, College Road Trip is woefully short on comic imagination.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. Even Donny Osmond's sparkling teeth seem a little dim compared with the unsullied gleam the movie presents as real life.
2. College Road Trip is nearly as hellish as taking a long trip with a bus full of karaoke-happy tourists. Actually, that's one of the gags.
3. The whole project is a cloying, artificial mess. The slapstick comedy doesn't bite, and the formulaic sentimentality doesn't grip. This is strictly phi beta crappa.
4. There's a nice pro-education theme struggling to emerge from oceans of clumsy humor here, so let's be generous and say the movie deserves about a C-minus.
5. Eyes popping and mouths agape, Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symoné mug their way through College Road Trip as if it were a silent movie -- which, come to think of it, would have been a lot less irritating.
6. I don't know if there are more than three or four laughs here, not even for devoted pre-teen fans of Raven's cable show.
7. When the cutest and most amusing thing in a movie is a pet pig on caffeine, you know you're in trouble.
8. College Road Trip is better than most Martin Lawrence movies -- much as strep throat is better than malaria.
9. This shrill, chaotic, mass-market drivel is the kind of absent-minded family film that gives thoughtful, worthwhile family films a bad name.
10. College Road Trip is at its best when it drops any pretense of plot for sheer goof, and at its worst when Lawrence manages to out-ham even his porky four-legged costar.
Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Word is that Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz is planning to remake his latest film, Terribly Happy, in English. There's not much room for improvement.
2. Moves swiftly and offers just enough creepiness and conflict to keep things interesting.
3. ...has a lot in common with David Lynch's "Blue Velvet."
4. Genz creates a distinctive look and feel in the film. The town is drab, the people wrung out, and the moments of passion are smoothed back down into the tired routine.
5. We can spot every single plot turn coming across the tidelands from five kilometers away. Certainly someone deserves to get shot.
6. Terribly Happy, directed by Henrick Ruben Genz, is all moodiness, midnight black comedy and noir mystery.
7. It may not sound funny, but there's a bleakly comic air about the story, and a bit of surrealism, suggesting the most caustic side of the Coen brothers.
8. The movie is so artfully constructed that it gives you the sweats right up to the end.
9. A polished, entertaining affair that spins off in unexpected directions.
10. A taut, intriguing and refreshingly well-crafted crime thriller brimming with many clever twists and turns.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

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

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

Though Fighting has a likable lead performer, and the fight scenes are impressive, the paper-thin plot ultimately unravels.
Write an ordered list of reviews about "passion of the christ".

1. The basic message of Christianity -- love your brother -- is obscured under torrents of blood to the point of benumbing the audience.
2. Gravely intense and the work of a man as deeply committed to his subject as one could hope for or, for that matter, want.
3. The Passion of the Christ is the Jesus story that's been begging to get made since Charlie Heston kicked off his robes and sandals.
4. Whether you enjoy the film or not, it is undeniably something that will generate good discussion and that makes it worth checking out.
5. It's almost impossible not to be moved by Jim Caviezel's vulnerability as Christ, even if the idea that he is no 'mere' man is never in doubt.
6. Hey, I don't believe it literally, but it is a movie, after all -- it's a great story, too, certainly as compelling as "Dead Man Walking."
7. Gibson turns the thing into a bloody shock spectacle; he implicates the viewers like the Jews who watched the crucifixion and beatings as entertainment.
8. I found the film more numbing than moving, as if the transformation it charted was not from human to divine, but from man to carcass.
9. And any power these explicit scenes have is in any case undermined by the absurd tweeness of the final moments.
10. It's a head-bashing experience, by turns exhausting, exhilarating, and infuriating.
1. What's really scary about this movie is somebody screened it and decided it was ready for a live viewing audience. Shudder.
2. There are some clever bits in it here and there, but it is not nearly as clever or as witty as Scream, or Young Frankenstein, two of the top horror spoofs.
3. How to review a critic-proof movie.
4. The rudeness isn't particularly creative and the repeated horror movie jokes wear thin before long, leaving viewers checking their watches and wondering if they can't pick up the pace and bump off a few more victims a bit more quickly.
5. The film just uses the scattershot approach to parody: Throw constant jokes at the screen and some of them will stick.
6. The jokes are frequent but dumb. It's a fun no-brainer night out.
7. There's something exhilarating about a movie that cheerfully defies all respectable standards -- and does it with such wild gusto.
8. did it really require six screenwriters to tack tasteless jokes onto Kevin Williamson's "Scream" screenplay for less than an hour and a half?
9. I am certain someone can make this movie into a credible drinking game...go with a bunch of friends, don't hope for a new watershed in satire, and you'll have an OK time.
10. Would it be asking too much if the hit-and-miss jokes could maybe nudge an inch beyond the obvious?
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

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

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

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

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

Though it's dated in spots, The War of the Worlds retains an unnerving power, updating H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi tale to the Cold War era and featuring some of the best special effects of any 1950s film.
The critic consesnsus is: Mary and Max is a lovingly crafted, startlingly inventive piece of animation whose technical craft is equaled by its emotional resonance.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. A deliciously sentimental film whose offbeat sensibility manages to keep it out of the realm of schmaltz.
2. This clay animation feels as if it was written by the early Woody Allen. Actually the genius behind it is Adam Elliot, who wrote, designed and directed this eccentric, wryly funny story.
3. "Mary and Max" dares to be equally funny and sad, making it as bittersweet as Max's favorite chocolate.
4. The universe that is inhabited by Mary and Max is breathtaking, and must have required years of painstaking attention to detail to forge.
5. Animated indie explores unusual friendship, heavy themes.
6. Everyone and everything is bursting with a hyper-real life that is pitched perfectly to the tragi-comic tone of the story.
7. Ultimately, Mary and Max is about correspondence and lack of correspondence, about how our images and fantasies about others fail to match up to what they are like, and about the constitutive gaps and misfirings in any communicational practice.
8. Unapologetically bleak and delivered with dashes of sweetness and sharp wit, Mary and Max deserves notice for being such an unexpected change of pace.
9. The themes are nicely complemented by Elliot's animation style, which is full of wonky cityscapes and misshapen characters, something that gives this oddball story a lovely, tactile, handcrafted feel.
10. Funny, poignant and moving, this quirky and clever film oozes heart and insights into human nature.
1. While "The Kill Team" is well worth watching, the jury's out.
2. Krauss is too responsible to do anything flashy with this material. He tells the story directly and in depth.
3. Krauss's documentary is both solid and scathing, raising more questions that it answers.
4. Is the story of The Kill Team singular? That's the unspoken question that hangs over this award-winning documentary, another artifact from the "war on terror."
5. All is not fair in love and war, but the battlefield can be a place where the lines begin to blur.
6. Explosive and depressing.
7. This is a powerful and effective documentary that exposes facts about the nature of war that the military establishment would rather keep secret. It serves as a reminder about the high levels of corruption in the military.
8. Its extraordinary story can hardly help but involve and outrage.
9. It's a beautiful way to lose faith in humanity.
10. A documentary that leans heavily on a viewer's innate interest in tangled philosophical questions of guilt and corrupted innocence.
What is the consensus?

Urgent, mesmerizing, and infuriating, The Kill Team looks at American foreign policy from a rarely considered perspective.
The critic consesnsus is: A serene, melancholy beauty permeates this meditative portrait of deep friendship and faded glory.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. ...the landscape it maps is as much spiritual as it is physical, and the personal story it tells is inescapably political...
2. Open-ended as it may appear, it has a crushing finality. For all the wool-gathering and guitar-noodling, this road movie is at least as tender as it is ironic.
3. Against a radiant backdrop of decay and rebirth, nothing needs to be said; everything in this lovely film is crystalline.
4. The difference between Old Joy and most other recent indies: it matches its rhythms and visuals to its story, rather than simply telling a story on film.
5. It feels so real it hurts, and it's the perfect antidote to all those movies where all sorts of stuff blows up.
6. On its own terms, as a contemplative tone poem about thirtysomething anxiety, it's lovely and poignant.
7. We're embedded in the dampness of Reichardt's smoky forest, but not for long enough so we're lost like the pair.
8. The movie explores the increasingly coarse line between nostalgia and acceptance for the way things are, without exclamatory revelation and uproarious self-pity. It's Sideways for realists.
9. About [Kelly Reichardt's] directing, after praising her simplicity, one has to praise her daring. To make this film took considerable conviction -- and, for an artist, conviction usually entails courage.
10. Slow moving but ultimately quite touching.
1. It's the opposite of most films about drugs vs. life because it puts life up front.
2. Granik gets a strong performance out of Farmiga, as she does from nearly the whole cast.
3. Quietly devastating.
4. a brave, elegantly filmed, treasure of perseverance
5. This film has an ear for the way moms talk to kids, a sensitivity to drug-sweetened intimacies, and an appreciation of the urgent nuance, not just the comedy, of recovery-speak.
6. A terrifically dark tale.
7. Unlike most movies about addictions, Down to the Bone doesn't follow the usual, comforting three-act structure -- social user develops a problem, user becomes a desperate addict, user finally gets some help.
8. Any sympathy developed for the characters quickly erodes as they continue to not only engage in self-destructive behavior but expose children to it.
9. You'll see relative unknown Farmiga deliver one of those subtle, controlled, humane performances that should win Oscars but never do because the Oscars are a lot of jive.
10. First-time feature director's disciplined objectivity is coupled with humanism in this collaboration with a gifted cast and cinematographer.

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

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

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

Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above.

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

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

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

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

1. ... the dynamite cast ... smoothes the clichés off the characters.
2. The world of politics provides all the drama-and satiric fodder-any filmmaker could ask for. And even though the public has shown indifference to such movies in recent years, Hollywood keeps making them...
3. Ryan Gosling is astonishing in this thrilling and timely - if also bleak - political allegory, which skilfully reflects Obama-era disappointment and also functions as a concise riff on morality, role models and the dangers of idealism.
4. Ides of March throws up the question of whether America is, despite its progressive rhetoric, an immature democracy in hoc to monstrous priggishness.
5. a cynical political fable for increasingly cynical times
6. The plot is somewhat theatrical, but the stellar cast brings it to life.
7. George Clooney is fast becoming a better film director than film actor (and he's good at that, too).
8. Director Clooney's decision to shoot a majority of the film in close ups pays big dividends. With nothing else to take away your attention, you are focused on every word...every nuance...every hint of false flattery or earnest appreciation.
9. Another Clooney effort that proves he is a better director than actor
10. Never seems quite the film this aggregation of talent suggests it should have been.
1. You don't have to know an arabesque from an alligator handbag to enjoy Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine's loving documentary about the various incarnations of the Ballet Russe.
2. Enacts its drama with a light editorial hand and unavoidable sentimentality.
3. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have done a fine job of locating old footage of the companies -- much in color -- but an even better one of locating the company's old dancers.
4. Ballets Russes, a graceful and fascinating documentary, chronicles the world of dance following the 1929 death of the ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev.
5. The archival footage is so breathtaking, the reminiscences so piquant, that even a stranger to dance can't help but be swept up by this peek into such exquisite, now vanished glamour.
6. A captivating if somewhat conventional documentary.
7. Blessed with a surfeit of archival footage and dozens of marvelous, first-person stories, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a rich, complex portrait of the legendary Russian Ballet.
8. Geller and Goldfine have assembled a vital historical document, covering a cultural era now mostly lost, corrupted imperceptibly but permanently when fledgling ballerinas started dreaming about Broadway and Hollywood instead of Swan Lake.
9. Ballets Russes may not be the greatest dance documentary ever made, but it could well be the most accessible and touching.
10. An electrifying documentary by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine that lovingly and authoritatively brings to life an era of unequaled artistic excitement.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

Even if you know little about ballet, there is much to love about this documentary's captivating archival footage and its interviews with elderly former dancers who have much to share.
Write an ordered list of reviews about "une femme de menage".

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

If Saraband appears to be a minor entry in Ingmar Bergman's filmography, it's still an accomplished piece of work from one of cinema's greatest masters.
Write a one sentence review of the movie "charlie st cloud".

Zac Efron gives it his all, but Charlie St. Cloud is too shallow and cloying to offer much more than eye candy for his fans.
Which movie is the following review about?

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

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

Arguably Martin Scorsese's and Robert De Niro's finest film, Raging Bull is often painful to watch, but it's a searing, powerful work about an unsympathetic hero.
The critic consesnsus is: A touching, though somewhat flat, documentary that follows a homogenous class of white Protestant eighth graders as they learn the importance of tolerance by erecting a monument to the 6 million victims of the Holocaust.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?

1. Touching and inspiring.
2. Paper Clips may be so-so moviemaking, but it's great reality.
3. You will never look at the familiar little fasteners the same way again. This is an incredible 87 minutes in a movie theater on several levels.
4. Affectingly documents an example of caring, concerned students and the inspiring educators who lead them.
5. Paper Clips isn't the slickest documentary you'll ever see, or the shrewdest or the most dramatic. But it could be the most moving.
6. A small, heartening slice of life that feels like a crucial step toward something bigger.
7. The project is chronicled eloquently in Paper Clips, a documentary about how a few kids can make a difference, one paper clip at a time.
8. The story becomes more about the collection of the paper clips and less and less about what the paper clips represent.
9. Low-key but inspirational.
10. It's difficult to watch this and not get swept away by the emotion of their journey... It's not a perfect documentary, but it's a very moving one.
Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Extraordinarily compelling and gripping.
2. A film of clarity, feeling and electric intensity.
3. A movie that finds a new way to get at the dichotomy of the violent yet supposedly religious and of the faith-starved yet militantly agnostic.
4. ... a powerful examination of the decline of civilization as refracted in one tiny corner of the world.
5. The film's title is appropriate. A desperate Catholicism flavors the doomed city.
6. We get the point after the first half hour or so: hope is gone, life is awful, okay, okay, got it.
7. Like a random gang shooting - it leaves a big impression but makes no sense.
8. Medellin displays [its] bi-polar nature through Schroeder's perceptive camera
9. ...a subtle and rigorous examination of the dynamics of power, both personal and political ...like Thomas Mann's Death in Venice transposed into the key of viciousness
10. The message is fine, the film itself is not so fine.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

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

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

Despite its sportsmanlike swagger, Two for the Money's aimless plot isn't worth betting on.
Write an ordered list of reviews about "marine".

1. Low-budget, logic-free action shlock...explosion-laced, fisticuff-heavy, utterly brainless stuff.
2. A big, hilarious, stupid meathead of a movie, destined to be a huge hit on The Violence Channel.
3. This is a Supersize movie: Supersize Guns, Supersize Knives, Supersize Muscles, Supersize Boobs and Supersize Explosions!
4. Harmless, tongue-in-cheek, mayhem-filled fun.
5. The Marine will trigger a strong sense of deja vu for anyone who recalls the slapdash, slam-bang action fare that was standard-issue drive-in fodder during the 1970s.
6. kicks *** at being totally lousy
7. The genius of the film is in its unapologetically obvious crowd-pleasing moments.
8. Such bizarre touches remind one of the appeal of WWE televised bouts.
9. If there ever was a reason why studios don't screen films, this is the Rosetta stone.
10. The Marine proves a poor showcase for the homeboy charisma Cena shows week in and out with the WWE.
Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. A semi-intriguing abomination, the movie The Cat in the Hat takes a piece of classic childhood Americana and turns it into something garish, dumb, ugly and senseless.
2. All the wild visual textures don't disguise the fact that the film makes little connection with its characters.
3. For enduring this mess/ They should pay us a fee.
4. Almost entirely unrecognizeable as something from the Seuss world.
5. Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is a triumph above all of production design. That's partly because the production design is so good, partly because the movie is so disappointing.
6. The Cat in the Hat proves yet again that the wonderful children's books of Dr. Seuss do not translate to live action.
7. More than anything else, it looks like the prototype for a theme-park ride at Universal Studios.
8. It's not exactly the story you love, but at least it's a story you'll recognize.
9. The film is the kind of betrayal of the book's kooky elegance in which Myers' magical, maniacal talking cat finds it necessary to cough up hair balls.
10. One of the most repulsive kiddie movies ever made.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?

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