question: Dull and confusing execution makes this ghost story utterly forgettable and unintentionally funny.

numbered reviews: 1. The Invisible is listless in conception and execution.
2. Supernatural teen thriller is preposterous, awful.
3. Never satisfying no matter what genre it attempts.
4. There are some interesting ideas afoot, but there's also a struggle as to which to direction it wants to head.
5. ...a quietly sad and lonely film about quietly sad and lonely people.
6. Yes, it's a great premise, but the execution was very weak.
7. Director David S. Goyer turned the familiar sights of our fair city into a seething battleground for vampires in 2004's Blade: Trinity, but his latest Vancouver-shot supernatural flick doesn't have nearly as much bite.
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9. ...has been designed to appeal solely to the coveted "tween" demographic...
10. Some of the key players tend to be either off-putting or unconvincing.


question: A dazzling blockbuster that tempers its sweeping scope with wit, humor, and human drama, Thor is mighty Marvel entertainment.

numbered reviews: 1. What's left is the movie's middle 60% or so, which is a fun ride, though I could have done without the 3-D.
2. Branagh's chosen style (and that's a generous term to use here) pretty much consists of tilting the camera about forty degrees every fifth or sixth shot.
3. Adapted lovingly and good-naturedly from the comic, Thor gains some Shakespearean heft from its themes of sibling rivalry, epic emotions and touching Oedipal conflict.
4. It does nothing to stand out from the other comic book adaptations of the past few years, but it's an adequate and enjoyable slice of hokum.
5. Branagh and co have taken one of the least relatable superheroes and turned his story ... into a hugely enjoyable, funny and visually spectacular film
6. "Thor" reminded me a lot of the "Iron Man" films. They are not particularly great, but they are highly entertaining with their explosive action sequences and fascinating characters.
7. ...although it looks good, it feels fragmented, the action never coming fully to life and the central character rather colorless.
8. Arthurian grandeur, fanboy-pleasing whallop and special-effect razzle-dazzle flesh out the backstory of how the hunky hammerer got from Up There to Down Here.
9. ... A solid introduction to the character, and the idea of encountering him again isn't a bad one.
10. ... not to say that Thor is awful, simply uninspired, full of sound and fury and not much else.


question: Superbly acted and satisfyingly engaging, Your Sister's Sister subverts rom-com conventions with sensitive direction, an unconventional screenplay, and a big heart.

numbered reviews: 1. "Your Sister's Sister" follows the indie-cinema blueprint to the letter with one exception: One of the film's characters is a lesbian.
2. A funny, small-scale charmer with a trio of dynamite performances.
3. Who are these people, and why are we watching them?
4. The sisters are merely agents in Jack's maturation in what is ultimately a Judd Apatow film on a microbudget.
5. Your Sister's Sister gets it just right, aided by Vince Smith's string--accented musical score and Benjamin Kasulke's luscious cinematography.
6. It's rare to see a movie that throws around this much raw emotion and still gets laughs.
7. This film should come with a warning: don't watch with a sibling. Unless you're up for some knowing elbow-digs.
8. It's small, but not simple. There are three shocking dramatic twists that feel completely earned.
9. In the very best sense, "Your Sister's Sister" almost feels like it's being made up as it goes along: organic, fluent and true.
10. As artificial as a Hollywood rom.com... With a different cast, a bigger budget, and some punched-up dialogue, it might have been made by Judd Apatow.


question: One of the most influential films of the 1990s, Pulp Fiction is a delirious post-modern mix of neo-noir thrills, pitch-black humor, and pop-culture touchstones.

numbered reviews:
1. A brash, smart, wildly entertaining movie that will be oft imitated but never duplicated.
2. A devilishly lurid blast of great entertainment. Ultra-violent and wickedly funny.
3. It can be a difficult, rattling experience, but this reviewer has found its rewards to vastly outweigh its weaknesses.
4. Ce film représente le summum de la carričre de Tarantino
5. Tarantino shows penchant for the rhythm of words--the banter has the drollery of gangland Samuel Beckett--and he's also good at taking seemingly routine situations and giving them a sudden vertiginous twist, such as the farcical drug overdoze scene.
6. The overall project is evident: to evict real life and real people from the art film and replace them with generic teases and assorted hommages. Don't expect any of the life experiences of the old movie sources to leak through.
7. A balls-out postmodern comedy par excellence. It's a Royale with Cheese. [Blu-ray]
8. When the dust settles, just as the Coens will ultimately be seen as the canniest literary critics of their generation, Tarantino will be seen as the most perceptive, most instinctive film critic of his.
9. Some of its strengths still impress. There's the trivial-turned-menacing, the gangster-gone-poppy, and the various sadnesses, poignancies, and tragic pointlessnesses that seep out of the best noirs.
10. Its dedicated fan-base and the pop-culture reverberations that have flowed steadily from it, almost 20 years on, echo Tarantino's achievements with Pulp Fiction. Unassailable filmmaking.