Q: 1. It's not unfair to say that Duplicity is Michael Clayton on laughing gas. What's remarkable is that both movies pretty much work.
2. A stylish, engaging and complex thriller.
3. [Tony] Gilroy may have taken his time honing his voice as a filmmaker, but there's little doubt that he's got it down to a science at this point.
4. Duplicity is like sitting in a two-hour lecture from a college professor who reads straight from the text and never makes eye contact. Do you know there is an audience here?
5. This movie wasn't firing on all cylinders despite some of them being great cylinders.
6. ... Plays like a more sophisticated Ocean's Eleven, the extra heft coming from its corporate setting.
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8. 'Duplicity' is a cleverly charming and sophisticated film about treacherous people.
9. It won't receive the critical ballyhoo of his previous film, but where Gilroy's 'Michael Clayton' lacked imagination and surprise, 'Duplicity' is a fun, witty romp.
10. When it comes to spy thrillers, Tony Gilroy knows the game.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Duplicity is well-crafted, smart, and often funny, but it's mostly more cerebral than visceral and features far too many plot twists.
1. Inventively animated yet hopelessly uneven...
2. a mixture of live-action and stop-motion animation that is heavy on fever-dream spectacle, but fairly shallow in terms of character
3. A delight.
4. The fantasy is almost too inventive for its own good.
5. It's Joanna Lumley and Miriam Margolyes as the ghastly Spiker and Sponge who steal this wonderfully pantomimic show.
6. One of the brightest, giddiest and most outlandishly exciting of all the Disney Studio's recent major feature cartoons.
7. James and the Giant Peach proves the best effects are even better with a strong story.
8. Fabulous adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.
9. Captures the author's spirit, creating a film with not only whimsical creatures but very real emotions.
10. It was a bold choice to mix live-action and stop-motion, and it's not something you'd see today given the pervasiveness of CGI.
Consensus: The arresting and dynamic visuals, offbeat details and light-as-air storytelling make James and the Giant Peach solid family entertainment.
Q: 1. An intelligent and expertly-judged microcosm of the inanity of war.
2. Despite some missteps, No Man's Land is a shrewd film that provides a persuasive picture of how small conflicts can escalate into all-out war.
3. Skimps on character development for such a politically-charged movie
4. It's less about battlefields and weaponry than it is about personality conflicts and the agonizing frustration that boils inside people who want to put positive changes into effect, but are too entangled in red tape to do much of anything.
5. absurd situation creates lasting images that don't diminish with time
6. A brilliant and brilliantly disturbing film.
7. Tanovic adroitly indicts the entrenched hostilities between people and nations.
8. savage whimsy
9. No Man's Land is the superior version of Russell's slightly overrated Three Kings.
10. Makes us laugh and frustrates us at the same time.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Bleak and darkly humorous, No Man's Land vividly illustrates the absurdity of war.
1. It convinces you that Black should have been directing his own scripts long before now.
2. A Stunning Return for Shane Black and Joel Silver. No, I am Not Kidding.
3. Bold and breathless, this trippy, hilarious, know-it-all comedy-thriller will have you reliving its ironic spoils for days, but you'll still be hard-pressed to nail the actual story.
4. Mais do que a química impecável entre Downey Jr. e Kilmer, o filme conta com um roteiro inteligente que faz da metalinguagem um recurso constante e orgânico ŕ própria trama.
5. The film is quite the charmer when it needs to be, and just when you're growing tired of its convoluted plot, it manages to win you over once again.
6. A trippy tribute to L.A. noir that blazes through its running time, a genre-busting blitzkrieg attack on Hollywood pretentiousness that's just as full of it as the pulp paperbacks and their myriad filmic offshoots that it lampoons.
7. A movie for people who love movies... featuring tough detectives, violent thugs, women with secrets, and dark mysteries. Oh yes, it's also a comedy.
8. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is full of knowing cinema references...but above all else it is a hilarious movie that reinvigorates the modern crime picture.
9. A very writerly film, incessantly displaying a preoccupation with its own storytelling structure and cheekily blowing the lid off other movies' tropes and wiles.
10. Black's seemingly yanked every memory of his Hollywood years from his noggin, put them down on paper and taken a Nikon to it. The result? A blast.
Consensus: Tongue-in-cheek satire blends well with entertaining action and spot-on performances in this dark, eclectic neo-noir homage.
Q: 1. Playing For Keeps unfolds like a metaphorical deconstruction of his charms: a meandering, formulaic look at a former sports star confronted by an uncertain future as he continues to exploit the superficial things the world still seems to want from him.
2. Smarmy. Dopey. Sloppy. Lazy. Creepy. Tone-deaf. Predictable. Embarrassing. Lousy.
3. Like undercooked leftovers, it makes you wish they had spent a little more time getting some heat into it.
4. It won't be up for any Oscars, nor will it score points for originality, but it's harmless enough fare for its target audience.
5. Another day at the Romantic Comedy Factory: '...Pull me down a Gerard Butler and a Jessica Biel, will ya?'
6. Ho-hum sports romcom lacks both laughs and chemistry.
7. It could be just the kind of pleasant surprise that leaves your inner cynic at a momentary loss for words.
8. I'll long be haunted by Dennis Quaid's manic performance as a palm-greasing dad who seems to be under the influence of bath salts ...
9. Playing for Keeps takes place in a tonally incoherent universe, constantly shifting between rom-com farce and mawkish family drama.
10. As the old saying goes, 'Well, that's two hours of my life I'll never get back.' Time is precious. Don't waste yours on a film like this. (Full Content Review for Parents also available)
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Witless, unfocused, and arguably misogynistic, Playing for Keeps is a dispiriting, lowest-common-denominator Hollywood rom-com.