question: Bill Murray's subtle and understated style complements director Jim Jarmusch's minimalist storytelling in this quirky, but deadpan comedy.

numbered reviews: 1. Don's journey becomes a vision of lost opportunities and paths not taken, and in Murray's hands it is sublime.
2. ...both Jarmusch and Murray ... do what they do best, even if their specialty is starting to feel like spinning wheels.
3. Don's journey peels back the surface of so many American dreams to find them wanting, while Winston, dodging kids and doting on his 'perfect' wife, seems as rich as a king.
4. There's so much going on behind Murray's sad eyes that words aren't necassary. A great performance.
5. Murray has never been more inward and unanimated ... It's a deeply chilled-out performance ... [and] like the rest of the movie, it's worth seeing.
6. Broken Flowers is ultimately more interesting than it is good.
7. It kept me absorbed all the way through, especially the collaboration between acting auteur Bill Murray and Mr. Jarmusch in virtually every frame of the film.
8. It is not an unpleasant way to spend time.
9. ...has a bottomless poignancy that Jarmusch cements in quiet character moments, symbolic imagery and out-of-reach temptations that wiggle effectively into the subconscious.
10. A wholly and ingeniously realized joy.


question: It doesn't offer any twists on the predictable courtroom thriller formula, but with a charming Matthew McConaughey leading its solid cast, The Lincoln Lawyer offers briskly enjoyable entertainment.

numbered reviews: 1. With at least three-too-many endings, paper-thin supporting characters, and predictable twists, The Lincoln Lawyer doesn't deliver as a thriller even if its title character is one of the most interesting of the year to date.
2. After getting through its three different climaxes, each one more ridiculous than the last, the film supposedly settles into its moral statement about a man who learned his lesson and is now ready to do pro bono work for drug farmers.
3. Works a bit of humor into a crime story.
4. ...the film is mildly diverting, even if it's a "Jagged Edge" (1985) wannabe and wears its manifold cliches on its sleeve.
5. The next step in Matthew McConaughey's inevitable march to network television is The Lincoln Lawyer, a pilot disguised as a feature-length movie, with an entire season's arc crammed into two hours.
6. A slice of sub-Grisham silliness that offers nothing that even the most casual consumers of legal thrillers haven't seen a dozen times before
7. A solid, adult thriller. McConaughey's best role since A TIME TO KILL.
8. This is rock-solid entertainment. McConaughey, a cunning mesmerizer in the courtroom, steers this Lincoln into what could be a hell-raising franchise.
9. Matthew McConaughey, freed at last from several awful movies, seizes his chance impressively.
10. A classy cast juice up this workmanlike but compelling courtroom saga, with Matthew McConaughey - so long starved of a decent lead - on fire.


question: Tongue-in-cheek satire blends well with entertaining action and spot-on performances in this dark, eclectic neo-noir homage.

numbered reviews: 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.


question: A winning comedy that benefits from Hugh Grant's boyish charms.

numbered reviews:
1. It's no use pretending About a Boy doesn't have warmth and charm, because it does. But... there's a potential for something better still that never manages to get realized.
2. Some credit for that deservedly goes to Grant. To his credit, he doesn't stoop to his puppy-dog pander.
3. A lot of the credit for the film's winning tone must go to Grant, who hasn't lost a bit of the dry humor that first made audiences on both sides of the Atlantic love him.
4. Less inventive than the one Stephen Frears put forward in High Fidelity two years ago, but also more satisfying.
5. This wickedly funny and surprisingly sweet film may be the perfect star vehicle for Grant.
6. To see a comedy with such warmth and tenderness offered up by the directors of American Pie is surely a welcome bit of news.
7. Rascally Hugh Grant, a beyond-awkward little boy and the makers of American Pie team up for a near-perfect comic delight.
8. A safe harbor for anyone needing relief from the season's cruder offerings.
9. Hoult is one of those amazing child actors whose faces serve as sheer membrane to their hearts.
10. Look, the novel About a Boy is so satisfying, you should read it now. Afterward, you'll have a really good movie waiting for you.