Question: 1. Still an underrated Disney gem to this day.
2. It strictly remains more "trick" than "treat."
3. Hocus Pocus remains a delightful family comedy, spooky but never scary as it romps its merry way through the graveyard.
4. Perhaps I underestimate the power of its generational hold, yet considering the potential of a broad Disney witch romp, Hocus Pocus is an incredibly mediocre movie.
5. For an 11-year-old boy (in 1993) already in love with horror movies, Halloween and Thora Birch, Hocus Pocus was my dream movie sprung to life.
6. Goofy witches and things that bump all over the place, incliuding Midler...fair family fun.
7. Rollicking Halloween fun for tweens and up.
8. With Bette Midler and her onscreen sisters shamelessly hamming things up, it looks as if those involved in making this inoffensive flight of fantasy had more fun than anyone over 12 will have watching it.
9. [Midler, Najimy and Parker] perform a show-stopping version of 'I Put a Spell on You' at a Halloween party, but otherwise it's slim pickings.
10. Modern audiences will probably enjoy watching a bizarre Sarah Jessica Parker ham it up as one of a trio of Salem-era witches reincarnated in the 1990s (they ride vacuum cleaners!) and after the children of the town. Too bad the story is so disposable.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Harmlessly hokey yet never much more than mediocre, Hocus Pocus is a muddled family-friendly effort that fails to live up to the talents of its impressive cast.

1. Passionately humanistic as poetic, an urgent and timely portrait. . .of Sufi Muslim culture and everyday life antithetical to the extreme fundamentalist definition of Islam.
2. A film that deliberately expresses its outrage with religious oppression, offering moments of humour and, at times, startling beauty.
3. Jihadism is perpetually ablaze in the news, but the Mauritanian movie Timbuktu, a nominee for the best foreign film Oscar, gives those who suffer its condemnations a searingly human face.
4. Sissako achieves the daunting task of humanizing the villains by playing on audience expectations and preconceptions.
5. An emerging star in African and world cinema, [Sissako] is a talent every film lover should note.
6. "Timbuktu" is culturally deep, visually ravishing, utterly heartbreaking work.
7. There's no oasis to be found in this film's arid landscape. Peaceful co-existence is just a mirage.
8. Timbuktu is a transfixing meditation on faith, occupation, and man's fallacies in the face of God. Abderrahmane Sissako presents an unnerving situation and elevates it into a fascinating microcosm.
9. Rather than shock, Sissako envelops us in a heavy sadness as beauty and happiness is destroyed by the same species who had created it...
10. A masterful and heartbreaking account of religion trumping humanity.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Gracefully assembled and ultimately disquieting, Timbuktu is a timely film with a powerful message.

1. Elegantly mounted and realized, to be sure, but basically a fairly conventional portrait of your typical noble rebel...it might have been much more.
2. When the whole thing's over, we're left with almost no sense of why this story has been such an enduring part of Australian pop culture and national identity for the last 125 years.
3. Manages to shrink the grandness of the myth without clarifying our understanding of the man.
4. It just couldn't get any duller.
5. starts off as predictable but enjoyable nonsense and goes so thoroughly off the rails,
6. This handsomely produced historical drama never fully engages your attention.
7. To get swept up by the hagiographic treatment and to be all that interested in every nuance of this fellow's development, one might really need to be Australian.
8. A handsome, action-packed biographical drama with a credibility gap wider than the screen.
9. Ledger, talking into his chest for much of the film in an apparent effort to lend gravity to his performance, is pretty stiff, but so is Jordan's direction.
10. Offers a couple of well-filmed showdowns and lots of pretty landscapes, but you need more than scenic views and stylish action to chronicle a life, especially one as controversial as Kelly's.
What is the critic consensus?
A: More depth about the legendary outlaw would be welcome, but as it is, Ned Kelly is a reasonably entertaining Western.

1. Guaranteed to be a hit with onanistic adolescent boys blinded by raging hormones.
2. ...heralds the arrival of a fiercely original cinematic presence.
3. Somehow, Ellis manages to combine a Gen-X slacker film with a touching coming-of-age movie... and it works.
4. Wong Kar-wai on aisle 4 and Michel Gondry on aisle 6, with Kevin Smith as mop jockey at all points in between -- such is the lost-in-the-supermarket milieu of writer-director Sean Ellis's whimsical comedy.
5. Would that the plotline came up to the poster's level of intriguing suggestiveness.
6. A smart, funny film, one that does a good job of conveying some of the struggles faced by young males who are smart, lacking in self-assurance, and just a bit aimless.
7. A good writer starts with characters and plot and allows the themes to come naturally from the story. Sean Ellis' script for Cashback is all theme, and it's not that interesting a one to begin with.
8. The first thing one will probably respond to, after the brief rampant nudity, is the exquisite cinematography by Angus Hudson.
9. A little too mopey and sexist for its own good. But the cast is engaging enough to keep us interested
10. I think this filmmaker has a future.
What is the critic consensus?
A:
Answer: An unlikable protagonist, messy editing, and gratuitous nudity might make audiences ask for their cash back.