question: The scenery and the stars are undeniably beautiful, but they can't make up for The Tourist's slow, muddled plot, or the lack of chemistry between Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.

numbered reviews: 1. It bides time while watching extras watching Jolie do her fashion-model strut, her famous lips pursed just so. It doesn't help that she is so icily imperious that she seems more like a creepily gorgeous space alien than an actual human being.
2. Two of Hollywood's most glamorous and cherished Hollywood heartthrobs team up for what will likely go down as one of the year's most disappointing misfires.
3. Frequently feels as if it has been assembled in some strange parallel world, one where Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie possess none of the charisma or subversive appeal that has consistently made each of them a magnetic screen presence...
4. one of the oddest star vehicles to come out of the Hollywood dream factory in some time...Depp and Jolie know exactly what they are doing. Jolie has never been more ludicrously Barbie-Doll/Sophia Loren glamorous
5. There's not enough oxygen in any room for these two giant egos to share... ...they're about as cuddly together as alien intelligences from different galaxies making first contact.
6. Beautiful people in exotic locations provide a serviceable espionage romp in 'The Tourist.'
7. consistently flat and uninspired, as if everyone is working on a different page
8. Two of the most fascinating people in the world in a movie that is not their best but still entertaining
9. The only thing worth noting is that the film is beautifully shot, but too bad 'The Tourist' is a just a lifeless, boring romantic mess.
10. The damn thing's been soundtracked within an inch of its life. Whenever Ange glides into a room it sounds like a concert harpist's having a coronary.


question: Featuring one of Robin Williams' most shtick-heavy performances, the broad and formulaic License to Wed wrings little out of its slightly creepy, unappealing premise.

numbered reviews: 1. Dismissing License to Wed as a comedy unworthy of a sitcom is to insult sitcoms.
2. Robin Williams is merely annoying in this comedy with a few lively laughs, but a nonsensical and uninvolving plot.
3. Two up-and-coming stars get left at the cinematic altar.
4. Spit-and-paste bilge.
5. Ken Kwapis' comedy ploughs a well-tended furrow, from the hard truths our lovebirds discover to Williams' family-friendly schtick. There aren't enough laughs or sparks to warrant saying, "I do!" at the box office.
6. Dismal comedy that's every bit as bad as the words Robin Williams plays a comedy priest might lead you to expect.
7. You end up loathing the Reverend so much that he leaves himself no room to bring you round to his side in time for the obligatory feelgood finish.
8. If ever there was lawful impediment for a marriage to not go ahead, it's this mess of a movie.
9. Cute story with a few good laughs.
10. Robin Williams has made so many one-star comedies that it's impossible to keep count at this point. But rest assured that there's a multiplex in hell that screens them on a perpetual loop.


question: Though not as uproariously funny as Guest's previous movies, A Mighty Wind is also more heartfelt.

numbered reviews: 1. Though it may not be Guest et al's best effort to date, it's definitely not a shabby one. Fans of the troupe's odd humor and scathingly accurate caricatures will find much to be pleased about here
2. A Mighty Wind looks like it wasn't a big challenge for Guest and his ensemble cast of mockumentary regulars. But if this is what [they] can accomplish on cruise control all the power to them.
3. A Mighty Wind is a decent comedy, but it's also A Teeny Bland.
4. Without a familiarity with its characters, the movie plays out more like what it is ... than what it pretends to be.
5. The humour is very dry, only occasionally absurd, and always extremely close to the bone.
6. Guest manages to create a movie that is funny and somehow more touching and heartfelt than his earlier work.
7. ...the movie never makes fun of its subject, but pokes gentle fun at some of the more eccentric folk involved in it.
8. The film is merciless as it takes sharp aim with smooth, subtle style at many of the celebrity affectations that have been given a pass for too long now.
9. There are fewer laugh-out-loud moments than in Guest's previous efforts, but the lost laughs are traded for a greater-than-expected amount of poignancy.
10. After his previous windows on the absurd ... A Mighty Wind proves that Guest has turned parody into an art form.


question: Persepolis is an emotionally powerful, dramatically enthralling autobiographical gem, and the film's simple black-and-white images are effective and bold.

numbered reviews:
1. The subtlety of the interplay among the three generations of women is extraordinary.
2. Satrapi's life story is exhilarating and heartbreaking; filtering political events through her youthful experience of them creates a very different, very human picture of Iran.
3. Here is an adaptation so inspired, so simple and so frictionless in its transformation of the source material that it's almost a miracle.
4. un récit d'une remarquable sensibilité s'imposant comme une oeuvre de marque au sein d'un genre que nous n'avons pas encore l'habitude de voir sous un jour aussi politisé
5. The film's nuanced view of social issues is complemented by lovely black-and-white animation work that blends Islamic motifs into a sort of Yellow Submarine-ish world.
6. An exuberant autobiographical film and dark-horse contender for an animated feature Oscar.
7. A moving, intimate, complex, visually beautiful black-and-white story.
8. Based on her own graphic novel, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's film is a masterly work.
9. Marjane learns that there's no place like home. And we Americans watching realize that people have homes even in the heart of the Axis of Evil.
10. A gentle dance performed at the edge of the abyss