question: Lacking enough material for a full-length movie, D.E.B.S. is short on both plot and laughs.

numbered reviews: 1. Delirious sendup of girl-power films.
2. Something supremely silly yet slyly subversive: a gay girl-power romance in skimpy exploitation clothing.
3. The characters are two-dimensional parodies, trapped in a movie that doesn't know how to do parody. It's a good idea for a short, dragged out into a feature-length film.
4. D.E.B.S. is campy, but infused with enough intelligent humor to make one forgive the occasional misstep.
5. less daring or funny than a sub-par WB show
6. A debacle, a debasement of common sense and debatably the worst movie to be released so far this year.
7. Makes Charlie's Angels seem intelligent!
8. A heat-free pseudo-lesbian spoof of Charlie's Angels by way of Heathers.
9. D.E.B.S. is light and airy and frequently quite fun, yet one can't help but feel that the feature-length version is too little butter spread over too much toast.
10. You might think there's no downside to a movie that peeks up the skirts of babes in micro-minis, but writer-director Angela Robinson's dimwitted satire is libido-killing proof to the contrary.


question: While there are some built-in scares, the movie is muddled and unsatisfying.

numbered reviews: 1. [An] atmospheric but deeply stupid thriller...
2. So much for 'rest in peace.'
3. As a whole, the film doesn't fit together. It's actually three different types of movies ground together into hamburger and splattered on the screen.
4. For [Keaton], a forgettable flick like this one is like a rehab stint in A ball for a big league pitcher
5. I didn't hate this, but... if I wanted to watch white fuzzy pictures on a TV screen, I could stay home to do that.
6. As inherently unthrilling, incoherent, and unsatisfying as scrambled porn.
7. This so-called thriller modulates the eerie static buzz of an empty frequency into the cinematic equivalent of sleep apnea.
8. all the chills of a refrigerator's hum
9. White Noise might have been a whole lot more fun for the sound effects crew than the actors
10. Director Geoffrey Sax bravely avoids treating White Noise as another grab bag of scare tactics.


question: This slow-moving French family drama is rich, complex, subtle and emotionally eloquent.

numbered reviews: 1. Establishes an immediate and intense fascination for its characters and their lives that it never for a second loses.
2. 35 Shots of Rum is a quiet and lovely new film by the French director Claire Denis.
3. Denis -- who has called the film a tribute to the great Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu -- keeps dialogue to a minimum as she delicately examines how immigration is changing the face of France.
4. A couple of shots of rum would have been a good idea before watching this slow-burning French drama - it would have livened things up.
5. Warm, affectionate and oddly absorbing.
6. 35 Shots of Rum draws its power from silences, glances, hugs and smiles - all of which speak more eloquently than any dialogue. It's a profound, discreet, hugely touching work that resonates in the memory.
7. Understated, beautifully acted, and with an exacting soundtrack, 35 Shots of Rum goes down easily but packs a subtle kick.
8. I liked these characters, and suddenly not having them in my life anymore, simply because Denis has decided to start the closing credits, devastated me.
9. The key events in this low-key film occur off-screen, but Denis and regular cinematographer Agnčs Godard have the priceless ability to infuse the everyday with a magical dimension.
10. 35 Shots of Rum is visual poetry, but poetry that examines the human condition with insight and illumination.


question: Showcasing excellent lead performances, The Dreamlife of Angels is an intelligent, absorbing character study of two women.

numbered reviews:
1. As raw and immediate as it is heartfelt.
2. film portraiture of rare intelligence and subtlety
3. While that's not enough to make me go crazy over this one (like some people), it is enough for me to genuflect quite a bit in awe of good characters and good details done.
4. Using decidedly unglamorous locales and stars, director Erick Zonca has given the story what amounts to an almost documentary feel; Isa and Marie seem so true-to-life at times you might feel a bit voyeuristic.
5. It mopes around most of the time with not much to say.
6. Just a bunch of uninteresting characters who spend their time co-existing in an uneasy friendship, smoking too much, and having sex with people who are even worse than them.
7. It's a compelling work about loneliness and two ways of dealing with it.
8. We aren't just watching Isa and Marie endure the tiny triumphs and hardships of their lives; we're experiencing those ups and downs alongside them.
9. Completely absorbing, almost rudely poignant.
10. Heralds a humanist cinema that neither shortchanges our minds nor cheapens what's in our hearts.