question: The Taste of Others is a fresh, witty comedy about the attraction of opposites. The characters are well-drawn and engaging and their social interactions believable.

numbered reviews: 1. The characters prove to be engaging and their quite real human emotions are enough to carry it.
2. The characters are so appealing that you can't help but fall in love with them.
3. Will entertain and provoke, and leave a flavorful memory behind.
4. Rich with vivid characters and revelations about the illogical yet human ways in which we crash and intersect.
5. May well be one of the best ensemble performances this year.
6. Diff'rent strokes isn't an original theme, but in the hands of so capable an ensemble it takes on unexpected poignance.
7. Rich with gentle humor and insight.
8. This warm, funny, all too human story is about how people's myopia can lead them astray in their search for happiness.
9. This charming French film reveals that there is no certainty in any romantic relationship except the prospect of more and more complications.
10. The spirit of belonging is delicately captured by one of the film's concluding scenes.


question: It's burdened by a predictable, overly melodramatic story, but The Greatest benefits from strong performances by its talented cast.

numbered reviews: 1. I think that the performances and also the kind of relaxed style of direction kind of make this watchable.
2. Mulligan adds so much with such problematic material she astonishes.
3. Overwritten and indifferently directed by first-timer Shana Feste, this bloated TV-movie-of-the-week is more grate than great.
4. Although The Greatest is a histrionic mess, at least it looks clean.
5. What begins as an extreme portrait in grief develops into a moving account of a family coming to terms with loss.
6. The Greatest includes a great performance and a very good one at the center of vagueness and confusion.
7. [Mulligan's] charming performance overcomes the character's clichés and in the process affirms her burgeoning talent.
8. It's earnest and grueling and gently contrived, and it lets several good performers play at repressing their feelings before letting them rip in jagged arias of Acting. I wanted to like the movie more than I did; your mileage may vary.
9. There's some good acting and a few nice moments. But far from being The Greatest, the movie itself is merely middling.
10. Do not mistake The Greatest for a movie about Muhammad Ali. And do not think its ambitious title indicates its overall quality.


question: A stylish and more focused sequel to The Transporter, the movie is over-the-top fun for fans of the first movie.

numbered reviews: 1. Besson doesn't fiddle with the first movie's formula -- impossible car chases punctuated by impossible martial arts sequences.
2. Careens wildly off course before finally running out of gas.
3. An embarrassment of giggles.
4. ...the plot has some crucially unclear exposition, and the stunt concepts are insanely implausible...but, somehow, that doesn't stop the whole from being absurdly pleasurable
5. If you actually go into this picture attempting to find any common sense in its plotline, you might want to have your head examined afterwards...
6. How well does the film succeed in what it seeks to accomplish? Well enough that I probably won't mind a 'Transporter 3.'
7. ..if it had the gumption to elevate its marketable value and challenge the notion of not being just another brainless and bombastic entry into the "crash and bash" sweepstakes
8. A vehicle for Statham to drive fast cars and beat the hell out of people, TRANSPORTER 2 provides a much-needed fix for action fans stuck in the late summer doldrums.
9. Statham still oozes virile charm but his unbelievable feats make him a super hero fantasy character which is not what audiences expect or want
10. In this second lap the brainless busyness and gaudy excess amount to utter overkill...nothing more than pointless speed and empty action.


question: John Huston proves an odd choice to direct, miring Annie in a sluggish, stagebound mess of an adaptation, but the kids are cute and the songs are memorable.

numbered reviews:
1. Huston's biggest misfire; ponderous and sluggish.
2. They don't build movies like this anymore.
3. John Huston is the wrong director, lacking appreciation for the musical genre
4. Tale of cute orphan is great for the whole family.
5. The movie offers an insulting 'let them eat cake' gesture toward the 1982 audience, but the pacing is so ragged and the characters so lifeless that few will be able to stay awake long enough to feel offended.
6. This charming musical based on the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie features many memorable songs and pleasant dance numbers.
7. Many people said John Huston was an odd choice to direct Annie and he proves them right.
8. The songs never take off into anything very much, the whole atmosphere (apart from the climax) is distinctly stagebound, and Huston merely reveals why he had never before in his long career been hired to make a musical.
9. Serviceable version of the Broadway show. Burnett shines as Miss Hannigan.
10. It's like some kind of dumb toy that doesn't do anything or go anywhere, but it is fun to watch as it spins mindlessly around and around.