question: This is an insult to its genre with low humor and cheap gags.

numbered reviews: 1. The story is really just a flimsy premise for a series of gags.
2. Dehydrated!
3. The Waterboy is arguably Sandler's most enjoyable motion picture to date, but it's still far from a masterpiece.
4. art it ain't, but 'The Waterboy' is pure, undiluted Sandler, in the kind of role only he could pull off. The movie also owes much of its success to divinely hammy Kathy Bates and the spooky-sexy Fairuza Balk
5. Sandler proves yet again that the comedic buffoon character is an effective cinematic tool for tickling the funny bone.
6. There are no epic moments that will go down in comedy history here. But there's enough funny stuff to keep you amused throughout the movie.
7. It appears Sandler doesn't have to be "normal" to be funny.
8. A damned funny movie!
9. A mildly amusing bayou farce with plenty of 'foosball' action to liven the sometimes plodding proceedings.
10. Adam Sandler has made predictable movies with worn out plots an artform.


question: An intimate, compassionate look at two teenagers in juvenile hall.

numbered reviews: 1. It isn't just difficult to do justice to Shanae and Megan in an average of 44 minutes apiece; as it turns out, it's impossible.
2. An eye-opening sociological examination that is alternately moving and tedious. Ultimately, however, one can't help but be caught up in the travails of its two memorable subjects.
3. Liz Garbus and company have skillfully captured raw emotions, something 'reality TV' almost never does, and Girlhood offers two valuable case studies to its audience, however difficult it may be to watch them.
4. It may be the least expected happy ending in years.
5. In the end, the girls' stories are inspiring and heartbreaking, making this sensitively directed film one of the most rewarding of the year.
6. While it is one part a coming-of-age story and one part a story of girls and mothers, Girlhood is just as much about the attainment of wisdom.
7. As grim as its subject may at first seem, Girlhood is at heart an emotionally rich look at mothers and their daughters, and provides a refreshing look at how 'the system,' flawed as it may be, can work.
8. Seems like a summer camp, with inmates enjoying soda and snacks in virtually every scene.
9. It shows a fascination with the criminal justice system, and amazing access to the people caught in its wheels.
10. One of the finer documentaries I've seen in my lifetime.


question: Though its attempts to rework genre conventions may fall flat with some, Red Hill is a beautifully shot, tightly paced thriller that marks a strong debut for director Patrick Hughes.

numbered reviews: 1. However arguably noble his film's intent to redress historical grievance, a poorly filmed shoot-out is never more than exactly that.
2. If only all thrillers were this rich, stylish and intelligent.
3. A serving of True Blood's Ryan Kwanten in his native accent is the chief selling point of this picturesque, contentedly imitative Australian Western/thriller/Coen-brothers homage, the feature debut of writer-director Patrick Hughes.
4. Nothing fresh or original here, but director-writer Patrick Hughes enjoys a heightened sense of detail, making the most of dark bars and the interiors of stalled vehicles.
5. The influence of numerous film legends ... burdens material that already feels derivative and uninspired.
6. A stylish cross between the classic "town with a secret" movie Bad Day at Black Rock and aboriginal-rage picture The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
7. Hughes doesn't redefine the genre to make his mark, but he assembles clichés with a sure hand, contemporizing a western showdown through skillful, genuinely appealing grit and gun-totin' poise.
8. Aside from splicing together a policier and a Western, there's no spin here, just a checklist of clichés...
9. Like the best westerns, Red Hill is a stripped-down morality tale; like the best horror movies, its true monsters remain cloaked until the final reel.
10. Morally simplistic yet viscerally effective, "Red Hill" is an Australian tip of the Stetson to the vengeance western...


question: A short sketch's worth of jokes stretched into a full-length feature.

numbered reviews:
1. It's not that Kung Pow isn't funny some of the time -- it just isn't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves, without all Oedekerk's impish augmentation.
2. Kung Pow is Oedekerk's realization of his childhood dream to be in a martial-arts flick, and proves that sometimes the dreams of youth should remain just that.
3. Oedekerk wrote Patch Adams, for which he should not be forgiven. Why he was given free reign over this project -- he wrote, directed, starred and produced -- is beyond me.
4. An incredibly narrow in-joke targeted to the tiniest segment of an already obscure demographic.
5. Full of flatulence jokes and mild sexual references, Kung Pow! is the kind of movie that's critic-proof, simply because it aims so low.
6. Kung Pow! is far too long, with belly laughs quickly turning into bemused grins as the novelty of kung-fu fighters saying silly things wears off.
7. This is the type of movie best enjoyed by frat boys and college kids while sucking on the bong and downing one alcoholic beverage after another.
8. Rarely do I really want to get up and leave only a few minutes into any film -- no matter how bad it might initially seem -- but this one had me itching to flee rather early on.
9. The laughs are as rare as snake foo yung.
10. Did no one on the set have a sense of humor, or did they not have the nerve to speak up?