Q: 1. Orphan is as much a high-tension, frightening thriller as it is a straight-up horror flick, at least it is until it devolves into outright silliness in the final act.
2. a carefully staged deconstruction of our assumptions about horrorshows about preternaturally manipulative and malevolent children
3. A difficult child that horror-loving parents will find hard to adopt as one of their own.
4. Something isn't quite working in the intended way when the audience's primary reaction for two-plus (!) hours is raucous laughter.
5. ...more concerned with producing cheap thrills and melodramatic effects than creating any sense of mystery or suspense.
6. David Johnson's script plays fair with red herrings before a devilish denouement with all the torque of a good twist. Esther doesn't just want to topple the Colemans' house of cards. She wants to torch it, and "Orphan" is gruesome, gripping material.
7. This is the rare fright flick that is actually grounded in some genuine human emotion.
8. For the most part, Esther is an entertaining and solid addition to the Evil Child canon.
9. "A superior entertainment."
10. Collet-Serra's film succeeds in being genuinely creepy, is commendably well acted by all concerned, and contains the best twist since The Crying Game.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: While it has moments of dark humor and the requisite scares, Orphan fails to build on its interesting premise and degenerates into a formulaic, sleazy horror/thriller.
1. Like a fender-bender to David Cronenberg's Crash, Carlos Brooks' Quid Pro Quo is a tame, yet weird and wonderful love-letter to the walking wounded.
2. Quid Pro Quo is a respectable feature-film debut for Mr. Brooks, and it remains reasonably thought-provoking without ever becoming emotionally absorbing.
3. The first half of Quid Pro Quo is among the most jaw-dropping things I've ever seen: Who knew there was a closeted subculture of people pretending to be paraplegics?
4. A bleakly humorous romantic character study, Quid Pro Quo is appealingly offbeat until its narrative takes a wayward detour into pat simplifications.
5. A finely observed, compelling drama with the creepy tinge of a thriller.
6. Might work if it was really about what it's really about, but its too-tricky script has too many paths that lead nowhere.
7. Farmiga is captivating, Stahl less so -- although a bigger problem is writer/director Carlos Brooks's script, which sets up one story, then shifts gears into something more personal and psychologically specific.
8. It certainly won't be everyone's cup of breakfast bitters, but you can't dismiss it nonchalantly.
9. Although not a perfect film, "Quid Pro Quo" is a highly crafted cinematic achievement that taps into its characters' subconscious with surgical precision and elegant assurance.
10. Not exactly Bunuel's differently abled erotica classic Tristana, it raises mystifying questions about disability as a state of mind. And whether or not the final clues to this mind over matter mystery reside in sex, shoes or tulips, hypochondriacs beware.
Consensus: Despite a stunning performance by Vera Farmiga, Quid Pro Quo never develops its effective parts into a convincing whole.
Q: 1. Gosling and Cooper in a movie? Yeah, you should go.
2. By the time director and co-writer Derek Cianfrance gets to the third act, it's a soap opera and not a very good one.
3. The mythically tinged final scene brings events full circle in a way that is superficially satisfying while also conceding that the movie's chief concern is men and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
4. It allows you to really observe its characters and to ponder the themes that fuel the plot. For that reason, it is a film that makes a deeply emotional impact.
5. Dove into deep psychological turf but without coming up with significant insights.
6. "It's up to the actors to figure this out, and they try...but The Place Beyond the Pines displays a strange paternalistic streak."
7. The most satisfying cinematic experience we've had at the multiplex thus far this year, and largely through its disinterest in playing along with movie trends.
8. A film of two distinct halves and it works to provide a dual character study of paternity and legacy
9. Great cast but the script meanders and ends up nowhere.
10. Not since Steve McQueen has any man looked cooler on a motorbike. Men admire him, women adore him, Ryan Gosling proves again, he is the most dynamic film star working in cinema today.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Ambitious to a fault, The Place Beyond the Pines finds writer/director Derek Cianfrance reaching for -- and often grasping -- thorny themes of family, fatherhood, and fate.
Q: 1. Even though the basics are in place, they've been squandered by director John Schultz - a man who doesn't seem to have the first idea about how to shoot action, or comedy, or anything else.
2. High energy levels and some genuinely hilarious set pieces make this kids' alien-invasion romp a lot more fun than expected. It's not, erm, rocket science, but it's a thoroughly entertaining ride from start to finish.
3. Gremlins meets Goonies meets something stultifyingly inept in a sci-fi adventure for the very young.
4. This is one of those once-seen-immediately-forgotten enterprises which avoids anything memorable or imaginative in favour of fast, functional, charisma-free busy-ness.
5. It's one thing that the script has a moronic premise. It's another that the writers don't have anything clever to add to that premise.
6. There's nothing really new here: it's all sub-Home Alone nonsense.
7. Most of all, it comes as a bit of a relief to see a movie aimed at kids that doesn't come with the increasingly irritating 3-D gimmick, the distracting vocal contributions of big-name stars or elaborate backstories
8. Agonizingly lame.
9. Cue some uninspired but reasonably entertaining mayhem. The aliens are mediocre CGI bipeds who wouldn't last 10 seconds against a horde of Gremlins.
10. Undemanding and occasionally lol, Aliens in the Attic will have the youngsters in stitches at some of the fight scenes... entertaining and sometimes goofy family comedy
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Inoffensive and kid-friendly this mundane family comedy is light on imagination.