IN: Write an ordered list of reviews about "guess who".

OUT: 1. I'm not opposed to drawing from the well of movies past. But to remake one with such a dated and specific point of view, one that relies on the interracial relationship as hot button, is both lazy and uncomfortably nostalgic.
2. Sad though it is to say, it's not often that a romantic comedy comes along that succeeds in actually being both romantic and comedic. When those things happen, it's easy to forgive minor flaws.
3. No classic, but Mac and Kutcher prove a surprisingly winning team, and considering today's comedies, you could do a lot worse.
4. Guess Who isn't very smart and it isn't very funny. In fact, it isn't much of anything.
5. One long race joke, the most overextended and least risible of the year.
6. No one does choleric better than Bernie Mac and it is always fun to see him get steamed.
7. It's been a long time since the words 'Ashton Kutcher' and 'hilarious' have appeared in the same sentence, but they'll have to get reacquainted. Kutcher and costar Bernie Mac make a terrific comic team.
8. Mix in a pair of inspired performances by Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher, and you've got a certified crowd-tickler with a lot more substance than the last Focker family gathering.
9. Guess Who is a pleasant surprise. Ashton Kutcher's at his most endearing and Bernie Mac is the best he's been in a feature film.
10. Wait a sec, are those sirens? *BAD IDEA POLICE HERE, PULL OVER!

IN: Write an ordered list of reviews about "vanilla sky".

OUT: 1. A talky bore that reduces the original film's pontificating -- about the nature of 'reality' -- to windy, fortune-cookie philosophizing.
2. Both more literal and less lyrical than Abre Los Ojos.
3. When [Cruise is] the boss on a project, as he was here and on Mission Impossible II, his work can feel distractingly self-conscious.
4. There is wonderful chemistry of two quite different kinds between Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz on the one hand, and Cruise and Penelope Cruz on the other.
5. Every bit as strange and creepily effective as the original.
6. Inevitably, the film seems as hollow and pointless as David is.
7. The film, whether they like it or not, is about being beautiful and then losing it. Hollywood's penultimate nightmare.
8. Crowe does a good job of keeping Sky's outer-limits story planted on Earth.
9. It's perhaps ironic that a film about love, truth and reality would be so devoid of true emotion, especially considering the filmmaker behind the camera.
10. Neither simple enough for sheer popcorn-thriller fun nor complex enough for true psychodrama buffs.

IN: Write an ordered list of reviews about "manic 2003".

OUT: 1. A riveting troubled teens story that has the unvarnished poignance of first-rank docus (e.g. Streetwise, Decline of Western Civilization III, etc.) on similar thematic turf.
2. Melamed pulls out some fascinatingly understated performances that are just restrained and youthlike enough to be startlingly believable (helped, no doubt, by being filmed in an actual abandoned mental institution).
3. The young cast throw themselves (quite literally) into their demanding assignments with vigor.
4. The movie works only to the extent you get involved with each kid's efforts or inability to adjust to the traumas of his past.
5. It's not that the film has much to say about teen mental illness, but that it creates a world of people about whom we suddenly care.
6. While it neither succeeds nor satisfies as drama, it's a great calling card for the actors involved, principally Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
7. It's too painful and intimate to let you keep its subjects at a safe distance, as most mental illness films do. That, of course, is the point.
8. The film's blurry camerawork, jumpy editing, and oversaturated hues are annoying and distracting.
9. McMurphy lolls in his grave.
10. The texture of "Manic" feels honest and the chemistry of the kids is well observed, but even the modest breakthroughs are dramatic conventions that favor the symbolic over the genuine.

IN: Write an ordered list of reviews about "8-12".

OUT:
1. There's no clean way to boil the characters of 8 1/2 down to their psychoanalytical essence.
2. Fellini has made many masterpieces, but this 1963 Oscar-winner is arguably one of his most brilliant and influential films, boasting a seminal performance from Marcello Mastroianni.
3. gets to the core of creativity
4. ... a delightful piece of filmmaking full of imaginative flights of creative delirium and accomplished with wit, verve, style, grace, and a tongue-in-cheek joy.
5. It's Fellini's last black-and-white picture and conceivably the most gorgeous and inventive thing he ever did.
6. Here is the author-director picture par excellence, an exciting, stimulating, monumental creation.
7. [A] fascinating and highly-influential masterpiece from Federico Fellini.
8. Unless Fellini's problem has been preying on the mind of the viewer, he may not care to take on the director's doubts and confusions.
9. Somehow, the movie is more than the dated crisis of a naval-contemplating artist. It's about the inability in all of us to make sense of our lives, put it all together and come up with something meaningful.
10. [Fellini] is that rare sort of artist who can be loved, revered and just barely tolerated, all at the same time.