Question: 1. What a pleasure to see that a horror film can be exquisitely and lovingly made in an age of cheap shots and shoddy thrills.
2. Definitely worth seeing.
3. With the new director's cut ... William Friedkin has found a way to make even more of your hair stand on end with some seriously creepy new scenes, improved special effects and a restored score.
4. ...Still a thrill to watch after all these years, so full it's hard to absorb in one showing, so affecting it will still keep you awake at night. But maybe for different reasons.
5. The movie's eerie quietude is gone.
6. I went prepared to be scared, and woke up sleep-walking two nights in a row after I saw it. Isn't that what horror movies are supposed to do?
7. Besides the performances, which are uniformly strong, what's so terrific about "The Exorcist" is how it's in no hurry to get to the meat of its horror. Unlike today's horror movies, it isn't exploitative. It's about its characters.
8. If you want to know what the 1970s were all about, this is probably required viewing. ...frankly, a reissue of "Earthquake" in Sensurround would have been a lot more fun.
9. An expanded DVD version of the classic tale about demonic possession and exorcism.
10. It weaves a frightening spell right from the get-go.
Consensus: The Exorcist has withstood the test of time, and it still has that renegade feel and the power to shock.
Q: 1. It's surprising how spectacularly [this] take on the Marvel character fails.
2. Repetitive, brutally edited and almost suicidally somber, Marvel's first spinoff movie is nonetheless several shades more watchable than Daredevil.
3. Jennifer Garner should have used an alias instead of putting her name on this breathlessly boring spinoff of Daredevil.
4. Talk about a house of flying daggers.
5. "Elektra" is a shocking mess.
6. While Elektra is better than Daredevil and Catwoman, it doesn't hold a candle to really good superhero movies like X-Men and Spider-Man.
7. The more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to think that this movie would better serve as ukulele picks.
8. One's likely to spend the first half of Elektra waiting for it to wakeup and the last half trying not to fall asleep.
9. [With] dialogue as half-assed as its entry-level CGI effects, Elektra lacks thrills, narrative, emotion, believability, character development-and frankly-watchability.
10. Elektra going gooey maternal? Gimme a break!
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Jennifer Garner inhabits her role with earnest gusto, but Elektra's tone deaf script is too self-serious and bereft of intelligent dialogue to provide engaging thrills.
1. Bigger, better, faster, wiser and funnier than its predecessor!
2. This 1980 sequel is a stronger film with cooler effects, more action, a better storyline and superior wisecracks.
3. The greatest episode of the Star Wars Trilogy!
4. I think I can recite most of the dialogue from The Empire Strikes Back -- I mean, even R2's clicks and beeps. Isn't that sad?
5. Nothing in the Star Wars canon betters this.
6. may always be the middle child of the Star Wars Trilogy, but it will always remain the stronges
7. A superior motion picture!
8. The script again is imaginative and full of laughs. Poor Chewy remains the brunt of the many of the jokes.
9. It balances bloodshed with charm, spectacle with childlike glee. It's a near flawless movie of its kind.
10. Colorful, exciting, witty and adventuresome!
Consensus: Dark, sinister, but ultimately even more involving than A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back defies viewer expectations and takes the series to heightened emotional levels.
Q: 1. A relaxed mood, a playful cast, and a plot that doesn't sweat itself into a pointless sense of importance, "Dawn" is mild sauce but tremendously entertaining, with an easy-peasy celebratory attitude that extends to the picture's lively 3-D visual scheme.
2. While entertaining, this series is definitely ready for extinction.
3. Director Carlos Saldanha did such an excellent job infusing the second installment with energy that it's a shame he was unable to do the same with Part 3.
4. ...Sid meet Buck (voice of Simon Pegg, "Shaun of the Dead," "Star Trek"), a weasel who acts as tour guide and helps 'buck up' the flagging series.
5. Prehistory repeats itself in this dispiritingly slothful third installment.
6. Even the antics of little Scrat fall flat this time. The rodent whose pursuit of an elusive nut was the highlight of the first movies are tired and strained here.
7. Let us thank the producers of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs for remembering that adults sit beside the youngest viewers.
8. Kids will go crazy, as most of the humor is pitched at their level. Mom and Dad might wish they'd gone to the pool instead.
9. I never thought I'd get tired of watching Scrat, but Ice Age 3 proved me wrong.
10. Some of the jokes work. The story seems concocted by a committee of Blackberries. But the 3D CG animation is quite an improvement from the first two films.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs boasts some excellent animation -- in particular, the dinosaurs are wonderfully realized -- but its story is tired and monotonous.
1. Rockwell is wonderful throughout, capturing Barris' inherent sleaziness and insecurity as well as, well, the vision of the man who could be called the godfather of reality TV.
2. ...so busy having fun it isn't burdened with being important -- though I can't think of another movie that has as many important things to say about ambition and failure.
3. Clooney's version of a beautiful mind blends Kaufman lunacy with a surreal story.
4. The evil twin of A Beautiful Mind: take out the false life-affirming tone and moral clarity from Howard's movie, add some nasty humour and you get box-office poison.
5. It doesn't quite deserve the gong, but there are more fascinating acts than "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind."
6. The scintillating aspect of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind lies in trying to discern fact from fiction - or at least fantasy.
7. Peddles skepticism while offering up narrative absurdities so fanciful that they must be true.
8. The movie is like a party that you can't remember attending the next morning.
9. ...an aggressively unpleasant comedy-a raunchy, bloodthirsty epic of self-flagellating sex guilt and apocalyptic self-hatred. It's also about the host of The Gong Show.
10. I got tired of looking at George's butt in Solaris, and I felt the same of Rockwell here.

Answer: Consensus: Rockwell is spot-on as Barris, and Clooney directs with entertaining style and flair.