Q: 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.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Tongue-in-cheek satire blends well with entertaining action and spot-on performances in this dark, eclectic neo-noir homage.
1. Occasionally a film comes along that isn't very good but still rates a look-see because it taps into the zeitgeist.
2. Delivers 81 snappy minutes of thrills.
3. Any less of a charismatic leading actor and this film would have been dead within the first 15 minutes.
4. Phone Booth is a taut psychological thriller about a scary encounter between a vigilante sniper and a self-centered publicity agent who is brought face-to-face with his sins of spin.
5. The film is also an unusual marriage of two utterly different cinematic sensibilities, that of Schumacher the director, and Larry Cohen, the writer.
6. A tense, thought-provoking drama.
7. Despite the film's blessed brevity -- it's only 75 minutes -- it seems as artificially padded as a Reno showgirl.
8. Schumacher tightens the screws for just long enough -- 80 minutes, including credits - to provide a bundle of fast thrills.
9. A high-concept hostage drama of absolutely no value to anyone -- except maybe Bell Atlantic, whose titular street-corner pay phone is on screen for almost every agonizing frame.
10. Loud and frantic and filled with all sorts of business, but it's also empty and inert, a creative exercise that would have played better as a 30-minute short.
Consensus: Quick pacing and Farrell's performance help make Phone Booth a tense nail-biter.
Q: 1. One of those small cinematic miracles that movie audiences hope and pray for. That it makes a powerful social argument in favor of LGBT families without breaking a sweat in the process is a wonderful bonus.
2. Up to the challenge, and clearly relishing roles of unusual substance, are Moore, Ruffalo and Bening -- who could well nab an Oscar nomination for her work as an iron-willed smother-mother for the ages.
3. Writing and directing a movie about family and relationships is always challenging, but Cholodenko seems to have found the right balance.
4. The bottom line is that I didn't find "The Kids Are All Right" to be particularly intriguing on any level. It seems too calculated to be taken as serious entertainment.
5. [Filled with] funny, gripping and very precise scenes played to perfection by superior actors.
6. If you liked The Cosby Show and don't reflexively hate gay people then you're pretty much going to dig this movie because it's that show's R-rated lesbian equivalent.
7. The Kids Are All Right is the movie we've been waiting for all year: a comedy that doesn't take cheap shots, a drama that doesn't manipulate, a movie of ideas that doesn't preach.
8. Somewhere around the halfway mark, the realization arrives with a dull thud: Turns out that unconventional families can be just as tedious in their melodramatic dysfunctions as any traditional clan.
9. The director realizes she has a great actress at her disposal and gives Bening her due ... Cholodenko knows when, for greater impact, her characters should remain silent.
10. It's a great piece of filmmaking because of its characters, all of whom feel genuine and three-dimensional in ways that typical screenwriting fails to pull off.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Worthwhile as both a well-acted ensemble piece and as a smart, warm statement on family values, The Kids Are All Right is remarkable.
Q: 1. An earnest flop
2. Rich, complex, multilayered and by turns maddening and depressing, Syriana emerges as one of the best films of the year.
3. All you need to know is everyone is a bad guy in one way or another, they all want money and/or power, and they'll do anything to get it.
4. Rips its motivations from the front pages of our daily newspapers, blurring the line between reality and fiction with credible subplots and believable twists.
5. ...not always easy to follow. Luckily, the execution is good enough to hold attention even when confusing.
6. A film about going home and being good to your kids.
7. If you're looking for a feel-good move to get you into the holiday spirit%u2026 This isn't it.
8. It has a lot on its mind, and is not afraid to speak. So much so, in fact, that it should serve as a good crash-course in international energy affairs for those unfamiliar with the subject.
9. One of the year's more compelling and better films.
10. The stories are all densely packed with detail and convincingly told.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Ambitious, complicated, intellectual, and demanding of its audience, Syriana is both a gripping geopolitical thriller and wake-up call to the complacent.