Q: 1. Shocking, then powerful.
2. Apparently, characters are supposed to be so racist, controlling, and narrow-minded, it's funny.
3. Towelhead is too eager to shock us, and it's therefore only stupidly offensive instead of cutting and insightful.
4. The most deeply disturbing, downright discomfiting movie about teen sexuality since Thirteen.
5. It is so disturbing it makes you uncomfortable watching it. For the price of admission, you become an unwilling voyeur.
6. Towelhead needs more breathing room in order to allow the central relationships to grow, but it's a movie that sticks with you.
7. A tiresome and fairly hateful mess that wants to raise hackles but only succeeds in coming across like a Todd Solondz film sans the wit, whimsy and empathy.
8. ...[A] shocking and subversive coming-of-age melodrama. Perceptively blunt and incendiary, Towelhead is one of the most challenging cinematic efforts of the year.
9. [Director] Ball's trying to be honest about adolescent coming of age, but since he's dishonest about everything else, the movie collapses in on itself, ending with a laughably pat resolution that renders Towelhead a Bizarro World After School Special.
10. Gripping, disturbing, powerful and likely outright offensive to many people, Towelhead is an often brutal study of clashing cultures, adolescent abandonment and sexual confusion.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: This story of politics, race and, sexual awakening has moments that pack a punch, but overall, Towelhead never quite achieves the nuance of helmer Alan Ball's television work.
1. Is there a more charisma-bereft actor in Hollywood than Dermot Mulroney?
2. Emotionally, this is a movie that just doesn't compute. You leave feeling cross, as if you've been tricked.
3. My Best Friend's Wedding is a well-paced fun flick that women will enjoy and men will too if they are on a date.
4. There are many humorous moments throughout, though some of the more outrageous segments seem too contrivedly wacky.
5. A farce-comedy, it must thrive, if it's to do so, on sparkle. But the bubbles are sparse, partly because of Roberts's low fizz level.
6. A romantic comedy conspicuously lacking either romance or comedy.
7. Light and frothy, enjoyable for some, irritating to others.
8. This is the thinking man's romantic comedy and a contender for the best of that genre for the decade.
9. [The film's] virtues...make such a vivid and appealing impression that we forget, ignore, or fail even to notice those elements that are less successful.
10. This delightful comedy about love, friendship and the hazards of lying comes not a moment too soon for anyone overwhelmed by the current glut of summer movie mayhem.
Consensus: Thanks to a charming performance from Julia Roberts and a subversive spin on the genre, My Best Friend's Wedding is a refreshingly entertaining romantic comedy.
Q: 1. Warmer and fuzzier than the first film, though every bit as tedious.
2. I'm not impressed.
3. Dr. Dolittle 2 is so full of comic excrement that you may find yourself looking down as you leave the theater.
4. This is better-directed than the first film, but what Steve Carr has to work with is a script that doesn't believe in the strengths of its character and performers.
5. As a good afternoon diversion, though, it's just what the Dr. ordered.
6. [Murphy's] performance is a testament to his endless energy, wit and imagination.
7. A cute, crude and good-hearted movie.
8. They should have called it Dr. Doo-Doo.
9. While it'd be silly to hold a movie like this to too strict a standard, one should expect it to at least respect its own premise.
10. There's enough pee pee and poo poo in Dr. Dolittle 2 to tax the sewer system of a major city.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Although there are laughs to be had in Dr. Dolittle 2, its preoccupation with toilet humor and Murphy's restrained performance makes this a missed opportunity.
1. A fascinating film which touches on a captivating range of subjects.
2. What begins as a sweet documentary about yet another art prodigy becomes an absorbing look at the world of art scandals, trial by media and the parental role in the frenzied creation and perpetuation of a phenomenon.
3. My Kid Could Paint That keeps us intrigued by the questions, long after its last shot of Marla.
4. ... the storytelling is a little crude, the filming equally so, and in the end, audiences may feel that those who were prepared to pay thousands of dollars for one of Marla's paintings must be philosophical: if they love the work, the money is justified.
5. As the story shifts from fanaticism to skepticism, Bar-Lev loses sight of his original line of inquiry on the nature of modern art when he doesn't need to.
6. The longer it goes, the more frustrating it becomes, as [director] Bar Lev declines to come down on one side or the other. It makes his presence in the Olmsteads' lives serve no real purpose other than exploitation of their misery for his own good.
7. My Kid Could Paint That is a welcome return to ambiguity in the documentary, while posing perhaps the year's most intriguing mystery.
8. It's a rare glimpse into the truth about the world and the art that tries to say something about it.
9. Bar-Lev exploits Marla as much as, if not more than, any other player in his movie.
10. [A] mysterious, gripping meta-documentary, a movie that reflects upon the thorny, unpredictable process of capturing a real-life story on film at the same time it's trying to figure out what the story is.
Consensus: Director Amir Bar-Lev grapples with exposing the authenticity of four-year-old Marla's paintings at the sake of burdening her publicly shamed family to transfixing results.
Q: 1. Not exactly a cinema classic but it has not only become a cultural icon but remains infinitely rewatchable.
2. The story is risible, the direction routine, the underlying ethic highly questionable; but the flying stirs the blood like speed.
3. thrilling but far too rah-rah
4. today its legacy is more of a punchline as an analogy for '80s overindulgence in action films and as a vehicle to be freely reinterpreted
5. You get about thirty minutes of good movie in Top Gun, and most of that comes at the end.
6. A movie for adolescents, and adults who willfully decide not to know better for a couple of hours. [Blu-Ray]
7. Noisy, slick, and shallow, Tony Scott's MTV-like actioner became emblematic of 1980s blockbusters, reflecting in its macho bravado and cheap elitism the mood of the Reagan era; in the process, it also made Tom Cruise the biggest star of his generation
8. This movie gets worse with time.
9. Everything wrong with 80s movies in one film.
10. Once 'Top Gun... gets back to earth, the master of the skies is as clunky as a big land-bound bird.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Though it features some of the most memorable and electrifying aereial footage shot with an expert eye for action, Top Gun offers too little for non-adolescent viewers to chew on when its characters aren't in the air.