Q: 1. Now comes Hostel, the most extreme, punishing, pain-filled gorefest yours truly has ever cringed through.
2. A steady, grueling, suspenseful march to a raucous finish that is likely to give it a devoted cult following.
3. The tone is too schizophrenic for the movie to be great, but writer/director Eli Roth is showing serious potential.
4. Wherever you find genocide and human misery, a throng of American college students looking to get laid can't be far behind.
5. Skillfully made...but basically this is a movie that traffics in sadism as much as its villains do, and your reaction to it will pretty much depend on how you feel about that.
6. ...nothing but a reined in gorefest for aficionados of torture,, and even they won't be happy until the director's cut DVD is issued.
7. A disturbing, uncompromising descent into the blackest corners of human nature.
8. Has the foresight to let us spend an hour or so with the stoners before the chainsaws are cranked up.
9. a horror movie cannot run on shock value alone.
10. Either doesn't go far enough, or goes too far, I'm not sure which
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Featuring lots of guts and gore, Hostel is a wildly entertaining corpse-filled journey -- assuming one is entertained by corpses, guts, and gore, that is.
1. One of the finest film explorations of the end of innocence.
2. Seeing [Cruise] so baby faced is the biggest surprise, but his talent was definitely visible.
3. It's easy to forget the idiosyncracies of a film that so successfully trades on adolescent male fantasies and nightmares. [Blu-ray]
4. For writer/director Paul Brickman, this was a case of being in the right place at the right time and, perhaps most importantly, getting the right leading man in place.
5. De Mornay does sterling work as the helpful hooker, but this is Cruise's big chance, and he relishes it, putting in a believable and likeable performance.
6. It works well as a comedy but one cringes at the thought that it defined, for a while, the social expectations of a generation.
7. Writer/director Paul Brickman has honed a sharp satire on American go-getting here.
8. As adolescent adventures go, Risky Business is an invigorating, first-class affair: It manages to make coming of age a witty proposition.
9. A capitalist wet dream; one that we have long since woken up from screaming.
10. It's sexy, smart and funny, but also stylish and filled with social satire and commentary on the culture of money.
Consensus: Featuring one of Tom Cruise's best early performances, Risky Business is a sharp, funny examination of teen angst that doesn't stop short of exploring dark themes.
Q: 1. Hollywood has tried too hard, attempting to re-create organic family life through excessive artificiality.
2. Remember when we used to look forward to Steve Martin movies? Those days may be gone with Martin now relegated to messy slapstick comedies that strain to see whether they can be as sentimental as they are predictable.
3. This turkey unfolds like the worst-ever episode of The Brady Bunch, only without a laugh track to tell us when we're supposed to be enjoying ourselves.
4. Good performances keep the movie from collapsing under the weight of its cliches.
5. Harmless family fare that's as forgettable as it is initially funny.
6. Safe, predictable and thoroughly unexceptional family entertainment of the variety that you could probably find at any time of the day or night on any number of cable television networks.
7. By starring in three of the worst comedies of 2003, Steve Martin has officially turned himself into the Anti-Comic.
8. Most of Tom and Kate Baker's 12 children seem to have been flown in from a casting office in Burbank.
9. From playful mugging to tender affection, Martin exudes a strong star persona, and he and Hunt share romantic warmth despite a dearth of alone time.
10. The children in this movie are all self-serving ingrates.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: In this family of twelve children, much chaos ensues, but little hilarity.
1. The pluses easily outweigh the minuses
2. There doesn't seem to be an original moment in the entire movie.
3. An imaginative and magical film.
4. It'll give you an enjoyable tour of the Red Planet, complete with some thrills and sharp computer effects.
5. An exceptionally tasteful and erudite popcorn spectacle, thanks in large part to a great cast and to director De Palma, who is in top form.
6. An instant popcorn classic.
7. Though unapologetically old-fashioned and corny, Mission still has its share of nail-biter moments.
8. An instant popcorn classic.
9. The sci-fi elements, in both imagination and visual execution, are excellent and occasionally awe-inspiring.
10. This movie's special effects, set design, actionsequence staging and swirling cinematography offset the weak story.
Consensus: Beauty only goes skin deep in this shallow but visually stunning film.
Q: 1. A moderately clever genre diversion that wants us to believe it's something more.
2. Never have I seen reality come crashing down in a film in a more literal--and disappointing--way.
3. An ungainly ghostly potboiler that digs furiously away in the same thematic graveyard as this summer's most revelatory sleeper hit, but doesn't unearth anything that's worthy of attention.
4. The more we know, the less we care.
5. Stir of Echoes might have worked just fine a few decades ago, but it now seems too simply schematic to spook us as much as it wants to.
6. There is a definitive moment at which the movie self-destructs, and its sad to see that happen when Echoes was shaping up to be an intensely powerful film.
7. Stir of Echoes is studded with potent fright scenes and built on a rock-solid performance by the ever - dependable Kevin Bacon.
8. This brisk, well-acted supernatural drama can stand on its own as a most effective chiller.
9. In its own smart, spooky way, Stir of Echoes, with Kevin Bacon, is nearly as good as its Bruce Willis predecessor.
10. One of the creepiest films to be released since Se7en.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Kevin Bacon's acting is so genuine that it's creepy and director David Keopp knows how to create true suspense.