question: The premise of The Emperor's New Clothes is intriguing, and Holm gives a delightful performance.

numbered reviews: 1. In the end, the once-proud leader has been reduced to the impish dimensions of a sitcom character, from Emperor Napoleon to Major Dad.
2. A fun and fanciful comic adventure ... that takes a great premise and runs with it.
3. This is a good yarn, successful and insightful, well-told and well-acted.
4. A fanciful drama about Napoleon's last years and his surprising discovery of love and humility.
5. This new spin on the old switcheroo plot is intriguing, warmly human and gently funny.
6. The film is occasionally too happy with itself, but it's anchored in a marvelously varied and tempered performance by Ian Holm.
7. A lighthearted, feel-good film that embraces the time-honored truth that the most powerful thing in life is love.
8. Presents an intriguing concept ... without developing the idea in a believable or amusing way.
9. [Holm] saves this film time and again with an eagle's gaze that puts you on alert, prompting you to sit up a little straighter in that theater seat.
10. Not even Sir Alec Guinness could have made it memorable


question: Visceral, energetic, and often very sad, Sid & Nancy is also a surprisingly touching love story, and Gary Oldman is outstanding as the late punk rock icon Sid Vicious.

numbered reviews: 1. The title characters lead pointless, useless lives that are cut mercifully short by early deaths.
2. Though dark and harrowing, explicit and unsparing, the movie proves a riveting biography of these burnt-out icons and their iconoclastic half-decade.
3. ...the movie takes us on a rocky, sometimes funny, sometimes annoying, often heartbreaking ride.
4. The only thing that is sustained in Sid and Nancy is a tone of clinical disinterest that leaves you asking why Cox would want to make a movie about them.
5. A few too many moralistic foreshadowings, but most of the time Cox's situations and characters develop on their own eloquently entropic terms.
6. Sid and Nancy is the definitive pic on the punk phenomenon.
7. Like Sid, this is flawed but fascinating.
8. Despite the downward spiral of these two lives, the film never loses its drive or passion; it never wallows in the misery.
9. The film's crowning achievement is depicting the soul-sucking toll that drugs take on the talented and the naive. Eventually, drugs replace the people they were, and they turn into mere vessels to an all-consuming craving. They become their addiction.
10. ...the ultimate punk rock movie,brilliantly crafted, cinematic magic.


question: Nouvelle Vague master Claude Chabrol balances subtle stabs of humor and biting class criticism to explore a love story and the seedier side of the haute bourgeois.

numbered reviews: 1. Sex, murder, insanity, perversity -- A Girl Cut in Two has it all, yet it stands as a singularly classy and sophisticated drama.
2. Chabrol has always been more interested in sensibility than sense, in discourse on fashion and form than in the narrative possibilities of function, and on the rich hypocrisies of the wealthy.
3. This is one of Mr. Chabrol's strangest films, but he still makes a ripple in his ocean.
4. It's a very long way to go for a punch line, but Claude Chabrol fearlessly meanders along for the two hours it takes him to get there
5. A pitch-black fusion of dark comedy, icy melodrama and satirical sideswipes at the class system, held together with an absorbing lead performance.
6. One keeps hoping that some of that sinister Chabrolian wit will enliven the film's smooth surface, but alas, it never does.
7. Bordering on the surreal, Chabrol's latest film investigates conflicting desires in a woman in love. The old meets the new and the quandary remains unresolved.
8. Never more than semi-plausible.
9. Most people won't care enough about these people or believe in their relationships to sit out all 115 minutes of this icily mannered film that continually hints at darker, more subversive themes of sado-masochism than it dares to explore.
10. An elegant, darkly amusing effort that relishes taking digs at the middle-classes while leaving its characters' supposedly perverse acts firmly to our imaginations.


question: A pleasant enough kids flick that adults may even enjoy.

numbered reviews:
1. Passable but otherwise forgettable.
2. It all adds up to a cheekier Lion King on a lower budget. But what you miss in spectacle you will make up in laughs.
3. If I have to choose between gorgeous animation and a lame story (like, say, Treasure Planet) or so-so animation and an exciting, clever story with a batch of appealing characters, I'll take the latter every time.
4. The soundtrack features some terrific music from Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour and others, and the widescreen animation is a vividly colorful translation of the Thornberrys' distinctive TV style.
5. The soundtrack, thick with catchy tunes by artists ranging from P.Diddy to Paul Simon, is a fine counterpoint to the story and visuals.
6. The soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission.
7. Outstanding entertainment for little ones but just as rewarding for their adult companions.
8. The animated redhead is the gutsiest young female heroine to hit the big screen since the live-action ladies in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
9. This is a children's film in the truest sense. It's packed with adventure and a worthwhile environmental message, so it's great for the kids. Parents, on the other hand, will be ahead of the plot at all times, and there isn't enough clever innuendo to fil
10. Doesn't do more than expand a TV show to movie length. However, it's pleasant enough and its ecological, pro-wildlife sentiments are certainly welcome.