question: Aggressively likable and sentimental to a fault, Saving Mr. Banks pays tribute to the Disney legacy with excellent performances and sweet, high-spirited charm.

numbered reviews: 1. Saving Mr. Banks depicts cinema as a perverse nexus of capitalism and psychoanalysis.
2. This too is a Disney movie, of course, with little to say about artistic integrity but lots of commonsense encouragement to revisit Mary Poppins.
3. As with so many American films of late, the acting in Saving Mr Banks is superlative...Tom Hanks presents Walt Disney as a lovable extension of his TV persona while Emma Thompson is the stone-heart whose must inevitably soften.
4. Saving Mr Banks is perfectly gauged to suit its subject matter - the light touch of Disney and the toughness of Travers, the slickness of Hollywood and the roughness of the Aussie outback.
5. There's great care to preserve the Disney brand with this film, which at times goes overboard with its reverence but never stoops to the point of being cheesy.
6. Mostra-se tăo determinado a santificar Walt que, para isso, demoniza P.L. Travers, unindo-se aos recentes Hitchcock e A Garota em um gęnero que gosto de chamar de "cinema-tabloide".
7. It's a welcome surprise to find that Saving Mr. Banks is smart enough not to overdose on the sweet stuff.
8. This is an utterly captivating origin story on how the all singing, all dancing, iconic technicolour musical (with bells on) -- Mary Poppins came to be.
9. Forget super. This bighearted and intelligent drama is supercalifragili. . . .you get the idea
10. Many have already raved about how this it distorts the truth about the relationship between 'Uncle Walt' Disney and PL Travers (AKA Helen Lyndon Goff), and yet it is enjoyable - as long as you accept that it's sheer fantasy.


question: Masterfully crafted by an experienced directorial hand, Katyn is a powerful, personal depiction of wartime tragedy.

numbered reviews: 1. If Polish, German and Russian sound roughly the same to you (and I can't tell them apart from Klingon) then you're in for two long and confusing hours, friendo.
2. A moving and powerful film.
3. Though it would be hard to call it life-affirming. It is too riven with grief and horror for that, too aware of what Poland has suffered for it to be anything but a deeply sombre memorial.
4. Impeccably shot and edited, this harrowing drama digs into the mystery of the murder of some 12,000 Polish officers in the early 1940s, which the Soviets falsely blamed on the Nazis. It's extremely grim, but well worth seeing.
5. Wajda's own father died in this tragedy, and there is a palpable feeling of personal liberation here as he finally gets to exorcise his demons.
6. An intriguing mixture of the monumental and episodic...
7. Superbly directed and powerfully emotional, this is a harrowing wartime drama that demands to be seen.
8. Katyn is a sobering experience, at times harrowing. It's also extraordinarily compassionate, even as Wajda vents his rage about what happened and the lies that followed.
9. The picture is shot with the visual scope demanded by a narrative that aims in some sense to define an entire nation.
10. The great filmmaker's urge to show generations of his countrymen what they were told not to think about is what moves him, and while "Katyn" rises above didacticism, you can feel the director keeping his emotions in check throughout.


question: Bee Movie has humorous moments, but its awkward premise and tame delivery render it mostly forgettable.

numbered reviews: 1. Amiable but no more.
2. Unfortunately, bees just aren't that funny.
3. A surprisingly unfunny, belabored and unimaginative comedy, Bee Movie is a huge disappointment considering the extent of Seinfeld's participation.
4. Watching this pun-filled cartoon is like falling into a tray of children's watercolors -- the warm end, where oranges and yellows and ambers wave.
5. Bee Movie has a few charming moments and a scene or two with legitimate hilarity, but mostly it's just mediocre.
6. Bee Movie doesn't touch the bar raised so high by Pixar, but it creates a little buzz of its own.
7. Bee Movie is a cute movie. Not that there's anything ... well, you know the rest. But cute is not what adults expect from Jerry Seinfeld, although children will be delighted.
8. Feels slight and attenuated, even at a brisk 82 minutes.
9. The movie has some pretty pictures and a few good jokes, but not nearly enough. And the story suffers from sitcom attention-deficit disorder, veering off in a new direction every half-hour or so.
10. What I like about Bee Movie is its comfy, off-the-cuff charm: unlike a lot of animated family entertainment, it's not all Thwack Smash Kaboom.


question: Though it may strike some viewers as cold and unpleasant, Neil LaBute's Your Friends & Neighbors is an incisive critique of sexual politics wrapped up in a scathing black comedy.

numbered reviews:
1. LaBute writes conversations as though eavesdropping were his full-time occupation.
2. Without the potential for decency to counterbalance and give context to the cruelty, "Your Friends & Neighbors" becomes a simple study in human depravity.
3. With LaBute, you get a filmmaker who cuts to the timeless heart of sexual warfare.
4. The actors are fine across the board, but the stand-out is Catherine Keener.
5. This honorable follow-up to LaBute's stunning debut, In the Company of Men, which also dissects sexual politics, is well acted by the entire ensemble.
6. It is superbly executed and, for all its pitilessness, it's an intelligent dramatization of the impact that consumerist values have had on the psyche of the North American middle class at the end of the 20th century.
7. It's both a daring composition and a repelling look at gender warfare.
8. If you can stand to watch Your Friends & Neighbors, you won't forget it.
9. You will not like Your Friends and Neighbors; it's intense, unflinching and uncomfortable. You won't look away from it, though, and you won't forget the people it showed you for a long time.
10. YFAN is graphic without showing anything, incredible yet credible, engaging and morbidly fascinating.