question: With a vibrant pastel color scheme and stylized action sequences, Tears of the Black Tiger is a bizarre, yet thoroughly entertaining Thai western.

numbered reviews: 1. Camp out with Tears, a hoot, and your tent will be wet only from tears of laughter.
2. The movie is a long time coming, but the wait for the self-absorbed film to end seems even longer. Maybe the Black Tiger's tears are of frustration.
3. Tears of the Black Tiger ultimately works best as an exercise in cinematic style, making it not only a quirky little nostalgia trip but a noteworthy cult flick worth checking out.
4. Has lots of pop energy and an admirable poker-face when it comes to its Douglas Sirk-ian storyline. And even though it's essentially a Frankenstein's monster stitched together from a zillion other movies, you really haven't seen anything like it.
5. It is nice just to sit back and let the day-glo colours wash over you, marvelling at the high-spirited energy.
6. If the story were as captivating as the color palette, we'd all be crying tears for the Black Tiger.
7. The movie is fun to watch, with an attractive cast.
8. Delirious and oddball at once, it's like a plate of meringues -- delicious at first, but soon everything tastes the same, and after a while you get sick.
9. Tears of the Black Tiger is like a fever dream dripping with overripe romantic melodrama. Imagine Douglas Sirk directing a spaghetti western.
10. The movie is a riot of tropical turquoise, magenta and pink, spiced with marigold, red and green. You'd swear it was drenched in a tangy tamarind sauce


question: A perfectly light, warmly funny romantic comedy that's kept afloat by Ron Howard's unobtrusive direction and charming performances from Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah.

numbered reviews: 1. A sweet good-hearted romance, and the first real sign that both star and director were here to stay.
2. Overlong, but makes a comedic 'splash' anyway.
3. Splash may feature a heroine with fins, but it's mostly a standard love story, albeit one with some delightful new twists.
4. It's also very funny, thanks largely to Candy in the lecherous fat sidekick role, and a string of set pieces that show Hannah as, quite literally, a fish out of water.
5. ideal Sunday afternoon entertainment
6. The movie is cute, light, and fluffy, perhaps not the laugh-fest I had remembered but enough to get by.
7. Splash is probably the ultimate fish-out-of-water film, primarily because it literally features a fish out of water.
8. Splash is a light-hearted comedy directed by Ron Howard that sparkles here and there thanks to its fairy tale elements.
9. Very dated, but still fun
10. It's too bad the relentlessly conventional minds that made this movie couldn't have made the leap from sitcom to comedy.


question: Instead of offering a convincing argument against the death penalty, this implausible, convoluted thriller pounds the viewer over the head with its message.

numbered reviews: 1. Alan Parker's turgid, bleeding-heart The Life of David Gale may just shame good liberals straight into the Republican Party.
2. Punches the expected buttons without being entirely convincing.
3. Somewhere between thriller and propaganda.
4. A perfect film for a February opening, a time when viewers are less critical and happy to kick back and enjoy an old fashioned mystery/thriller.
5. Our audience was howling in laughter at Winslet's over-emotional histrionics, and by the end, so was I.
6. Politicism is charted on a circle, and the extremes of both ends tend to meet at the bottom.
7. Glitzy, yes, challenging credibility, maybe, but nonetheless a clever thriller emerges from a political diatribe.
8. Going through the motions of a liberal-Hollywood polemic with the sweaty, mounting hysteria of a bad liar, The Life of David Gale is foremost an overheating gotcha machine.
9. Wherever you stand on the death penalty, there ought to be a law against a message movie this contrived.
10. Tries to give you two films for the price of one. Unfortunately, it does neither very well.


question: Parents might call this either a spectacle-filled adventure or a shallow and vapid CG-fest, depending on whether they choose to embrace this on the same level as their kids.

numbered reviews:
1. Silly, shamelessly derivative slapstick - but at least it's family-friendly hyperactivity.
2. If nothing else, this should command the attention of kids who have grown tired of having their pictures taken with Santa.
3. Ben Stiller may just be his generation's Woody Allen.
4. It's just so dopey.
5. The comedy in 'Night at the Museum' fails to liven up until the last reel.
6. This is basically a movie for youngsters, who will enjoy watching a T-rex skeleton scampering around the museum like a big puppy.
7. ...very disappointing, unless you happen to be ten years old.
8. A movie both kids and adults can enjoy. And you thought those went the way of the woolly mammoth.
9. Bound to become THE family entertainment choice for the holiday season. It's a blockbuster. Deal with it.
10. Ben Stiller and gang still manage to give the delightfully entertaining Night at the Museum a little edge.