Question: Critic consensus:Though it arrives during an unfortunate glut of vampire movies, Daybreakers offers enough dark sci-fi thrills -- and enough of a unique twist on the genre -- to satisfy filmgoers.

Numbered reviews:1. Even though I'm pretty much vampired out these days, I appreciated the grossout thrills and the B-movie dialogue.
2. It's a shame Australia's Spierig Brothers opt to turn it into just any old noir-future chase movie - roughly Blade meets Minority Report, without the production flair.
3. It's big and brash, but were it not for Weta's visionary special effects work, there would be little to keep the blood pumping.
4. A gripping feature that is just as likely to provoke thought as it is fear.
5. Daybreakers isn't exactly good or bad, and that is the problem. The film could have broken the rules and expounded upon its initial ingenuity. It could have been about something. It's not.
6. Daybreakers is an entertaining genre hybrid with functioning brain cells and, in its exciting finale, an original solution to solving its vampire epidemic.
7. A polished, intelligent, well-acted and darkly humourous vampire tale. Fangtastic.
8. Iffy plotting, squiffy dialogue and directorial indecision - is this po-faced science fiction or hokey horror? - leave the film, like its protagonist, torn between two extremes.
9. With beautiful Blade Runner-style cityscapes, smartly conceived takes on the vampire mythos (sun-proofed cars and video mirrors), inventively engineered shocks and copious blood loss, this is an engagingly skilful blend.
10. Daybreakers takes the undead in an entirely different direction, melding smart sci-fi with a timely political subtext.


Critic consensus:Maxed Out's presentation of startling facts and candid interviews put a human face on the issue of debt and financial insecurity.

Numbered reviews:1. At a time when our debt as individuals and as a nation is at an all-time high, Maxed Out offers a much needed look at this escalating dilemma.
2. [A] well-meaning but scattershot documentary.
3. James Scurlock's often riveting documentary is likely to leave you outraged over the manipulative greed of America's banks and credit card firms.
4. Maxed Out is more ambitious than Morgan Spurlock's egotistical Super Size Me, but its also more scatterbrained.
5. While the documentary does a credible job of pointing out the magnitude of the problem, it skirts the issue of what can be done about it and by whom.
6. Though the movie sometimes feels a bit cursory in telling its many stories, many of its points resonate strongly, in that hey-how-come-I-didn't-know-that way that the best muckraking journalism can do.
7. Oh, the stories Scurlock tells.
8. Part American cautionary tale, part credit card industry exposé, James Scurlock's Maxed Out should be required viewing for anyone who has ever opened an envelope that exclaims, "You have been pre-approved!"
9. ...it couldn't be clearer that the average American has been seduced by consumer creditors who are more than willing to bleed them dry.
10. The film's scattered ruminations on credit card mania add up to a powerful indictment of a culture of mindless consumption spinning out of control.


Critic consensus:Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds exhibit plenty of chemistry, but they're let down by The Proposal's devotion to formula.

Numbered reviews:
Answer: 1. The Proposal could have been much smarter, and much hipper. Instead, it settles for silliness and sentimentality.
2. Bullock's longtime fans should be happy to see her fully engaged in a role that suits her and paired, at last, with her comic equal: Reynolds.
3. The chemical energy between Bullock and Reynolds is fresh and irresistible.
4. Classic screwball comedies knew how to get antagonistic lovers to fall for each other without having to resort to bathos; one wants to send first-time screenwriter Pete Chiarelli to an all-day Howard Hawks film festival.
5. this is sort of an object lesson in what's wrong with comedy today. The first 15, maybe 20 minutes of this film was really promising... And then it all falls apart because they bring in all these silly, farcical things.
6. Director Anne Fletcher knows where the comedy lies in an improbable but cute screenplay by Peter Chiarelli, it's in her two stars and she lets them fly.
7. The Proposal works up such a fun vibe that you couldn't care less about the contrived schematics of its story.
8. The stars aren't going to erase memories of Hepburn and Tracy, or Lombard and Powell, but Bullock and Reynolds - even when playing a naked bathroom scene together - make a good fit.
9. So we've got a prodigal son who has the chance to deal with his father issues and discover things about his heretofore evil boss. It's like a romantic-comedy cliché twofer.
10. All the romantic comedy conventions are shamelessly on parade in The Proposal, trampling on our brains and turning them into mush.