question: Being a sequel, American Pie 2 doesn't retain the freshness of the original, nor is it as funny.

numbered reviews: 1. Has an ear for adolescent humiliation and clunkiness.
2. A faster-moving and funnier confection than its predecessor.
3. Jim and the gang feel like strangers, and their attempts to create an instant-party atmosphere and pull us into it, demanding we have fun with them, are a little creepy, even a tad sociopathic.
4. American Pie 2 is not really a movie. It's Universal Pictures playing host to its own frathouse party.
5. With its mix of lewd jokes, sentimentalized characters and fake emotion, American Pie 2 has less in common with its predecessor and everything in common with every other bad comedy ever made about randy young men.
6. Although it delivers what's expected of it for those wanting to see such a film, it's really not that good of a picture.
7. No real premise, no new jokes, no new characters and still no plot line for poor Natasha Lyonne.
8. Still seems fresh, despite using the same ingredients of the first one.
9. What a portrait of young American manhood as a collective of hormone-addled schnooks -- effete, incapable, soft and doomed, a group of chuckleheads who couldn't find the sky without a sign that pointed up.
10. Sure it's a sequel, but Pie 2 reprises most of the spirit of the first movie.


question: A curious, not always seamless, amalgamation of Kubrick's chilly bleakness and Spielberg's warm-hearted optimism, A.I. is, in a word, fascinating.

numbered reviews: 1. The best fairy tale -- the most disturbing, complex and intellectually challenging boy's adventure story -- Mr. Spielberg has made.
2. The first really strange, risk-taking, Hollywood movie I've seen in 2001.
3. Jude Law's Gigolo Joe [is] a Jiminy Cricket with a libido, even if it is mechanical.
4. An often disjointed melange drawn from classic stories and old movies.
5. Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law make this into a must-see experience.
6. It's the kind of screwup you get only from a master filmmaker.
7. A haunting and wondrous story about the thin and rapidly blurring line between reality and illusion.
8. Aside from the tantalizing moral questions, A.I. is a delight visually.
9. You're encouraged to ponder complex questions while enjoying an amazing ride.
10. At best it's brilliant, but lukewarm -- lacking Spielberg's emotional heat and Kubrick's icy intellect.


question: Sam Mendes brings Bond surging back with a smart, sexy, riveting action thriller that qualifies as one of the best 007 films to date.

numbered reviews: 1. Skyfall isn't just a great Bond film, it's the character's resurrection.
2. Skyfall is still a vast improvement on Quantum Of Solace, but it's no Casino Royale.
3. Skyfall isn't just one of the best-ever James Bond movies. It's also one of the most rock 'em sock 'em, intelligent, witty, dazzling and best-acted movies of 2012.
4. The new outlook, fresh cast and leaner chassis suggest that the franchise can really kick on from here, but it's hard not to feel that Skyfall itself is something of a missed opportunity. Better luck next time, James. Again.
5. If not a full blown triumph, this is certainly one of the best Bonds in recent memory.
6. From references to past 007 movies to unexpected twists and top-grade action, Mendes' movie feels like a well-wrapped birthday gift for Bond fans.
7. It's outlandish fun, dramatic and exciting, too - pure entertainment with a capital E.
8. Skyfall is the perfect way to commemorate 50 years of Bond on the big screen. It's the best in the series.
9. Pointedly eschews the spy gadgetry of earlier Bond films to focus on human circuitry.
10. The Bond movie every James Bond fan, new or old, will want to see.


question: Though it features some of the most memorable and electrifying aereial footage shot with an expert eye for action, Top Gun offers too little for non-adolescent viewers to chew on when its characters aren't in the air.

numbered reviews:
1. Not exactly a cinema classic but it has not only become a cultural icon but remains infinitely rewatchable.
2. The story is risible, the direction routine, the underlying ethic highly questionable; but the flying stirs the blood like speed.
3. thrilling but far too rah-rah
4. today its legacy is more of a punchline as an analogy for '80s overindulgence in action films and as a vehicle to be freely reinterpreted
5. You get about thirty minutes of good movie in Top Gun, and most of that comes at the end.
6. A movie for adolescents, and adults who willfully decide not to know better for a couple of hours. [Blu-Ray]
7. Noisy, slick, and shallow, Tony Scott's MTV-like actioner became emblematic of 1980s blockbusters, reflecting in its macho bravado and cheap elitism the mood of the Reagan era; in the process, it also made Tom Cruise the biggest star of his generation
8. This movie gets worse with time.
9. Everything wrong with 80s movies in one film.
10. Once 'Top Gun... gets back to earth, the master of the skies is as clunky as a big land-bound bird.