user: 1. Taut, mature drama examines the life of a lone assassin.
2. Paris Hilton puts more effort and thought into her alibis.
3. The journey taken by Jack/Edward as he walks among the stucco buildings, curving stairways, mountainous slopes and ancient architecture is meditative and dreamlike, an elegiac wanderlust.
4. A textbook thriller...The excitement of the movie comes from its technical polish.
5. Of the most visually thrilling escapist yarns ever made. Italian golden age cinema takes on a gun fetish.
6. George hits a new low in this dull, depressing movie
7. An Effective Thriller or a Chance for Clooney to Hang in Lake Como? Go with the Former.
8. slow, methodical, and riveting
9. Corbijn allows the film to crawl, preferring the stillness over a more rushed Bourne-esque action travelogue.
10. It feels like a character study of an enigma that cannot be truly understood or solved. And that's an admirable quality -- one that makes The American compelling.
Consensus: As beautifully shot as it is emotionally restrained, The American is an unusually divisive spy thriller -- and one that rests on an unusually subdued performance from George Clooney.
1. A rickety contraption of issue-oriented talking points delivered by characters-centrally, four black students-who are constructed to fit the plot.
2. Arguably the most vital film to come out of Hollywood in 2014.
3. The message gets a little scattershot and repetitive at times, but he hits his mark more often than not.
4. The pitch on Dear White People is that it's "Do the Right Thing for the Obama generation," which is both an oversell and a disservice to Justin Simien's witty satire about race relations on a fictional Ivy League campus.
5. Dense first feature takes our racial pulse and finds it's still irregular
6. Simien shoots satirical buckshot, missing as often as he hits, and the clunky framing device is pure amateur hour, yet he also displays an attention to character complexity that shows genuine promise.
7. Simien's caustic message resonates at many levels: If you want to change the world, be sure to bring good snacks.
8. Welcome to the head-spinning gamesmanship of the Obama era - and to the most elegantly candid comedy of racial tension since Spike Lee burst onto the scene 30 years ago.
9. The film is concerned not only with the ways in which racism manifests itself, but the ways in which it tends to be effaced -- chiefly from the privileged who deny that race remains an issue.
10. ...satirizes the fact that our increasingly integrated culture has in some ways only heightened the reliance on dismissive shorthand.
Consensus: Dear White People adds a welcome new voice to cinema's oft-neglected discussion of race, tackling its timely themes with intelligence, honesty, and gratifyingly sharp wit.
1. A gripping, tautly-paced action flick that outdoes most of Hollywood's similar output.
2. more life than 10 summer blockbusters combined
3. While the story may be a common one, Rodriguez, who wrote, produced, shot and edited the entire film himself, has a uniquely straightforward wit that makes what might otherwise have been just another shoot-'em-up something more than that.
4. The energy that propels the action and the style and humor of the film and its players makes El Mariachi an entertaining ride.
5. It goes without saying that Mr. Rodriguez, having made such a clever and inventive debut, is prepared for a big future of his own.
6. Arguably the most amazing film made in 1990s.
7. A silly adventure tale that would have failed even with a $200 million budget.
8. Has tons more charm than its star-studded, big-budget reprise, Desperado.
9. An enormously entertaining movie.
10. Watching his film, you can feel the sheer joy that went into its creation.


assistant: Consensus: Made on a shoestring budget, El Mariachi's story is not new. However, the movie has so much energy that it's thoroughly enjoyable.