Problem: 1. A killer comedy!
2. A reliable piece of fluff that delivers the goods.
3. De Niro and Crystal are a crackerjack pairing, and their interplay is loony enough to make you forgive the movie being stuck in neutral most of the time.
4. Run and see this! You will be bursting with guffaws.
5. The film is a worthy showcase for De Niro and Crystal to spar.
6. Classic scenes and hillarious lines make this one of the year's best movie.
7. Delivers big laughs on a consistent basis!
8. This movie's got an original premise, some convincing performances by its leads, especially DeNiro in an atypical role, and plenty of fresh humour sprinkled throughout its spaghettilicious body of fun.
9. Director Harold Ramis keeps the gangsters real and funny at the same time.
10. Slick and rambunctious!
What is the consensus?
****
Answer: Analyze This is a satisfying comedy with great performances by De Niro and Crystal.


Problem: 1. One of those small cinematic miracles that movie audiences hope and pray for. That it makes a powerful social argument in favor of LGBT families without breaking a sweat in the process is a wonderful bonus.
2. Up to the challenge, and clearly relishing roles of unusual substance, are Moore, Ruffalo and Bening -- who could well nab an Oscar nomination for her work as an iron-willed smother-mother for the ages.
3. Writing and directing a movie about family and relationships is always challenging, but Cholodenko seems to have found the right balance.
4. The bottom line is that I didn't find "The Kids Are All Right" to be particularly intriguing on any level. It seems too calculated to be taken as serious entertainment.
5. [Filled with] funny, gripping and very precise scenes played to perfection by superior actors.
6. If you liked The Cosby Show and don't reflexively hate gay people then you're pretty much going to dig this movie because it's that show's R-rated lesbian equivalent.
7. The Kids Are All Right is the movie we've been waiting for all year: a comedy that doesn't take cheap shots, a drama that doesn't manipulate, a movie of ideas that doesn't preach.
8. Somewhere around the halfway mark, the realization arrives with a dull thud: Turns out that unconventional families can be just as tedious in their melodramatic dysfunctions as any traditional clan.
9. The director realizes she has a great actress at her disposal and gives Bening her due ... Cholodenko knows when, for greater impact, her characters should remain silent.
10. It's a great piece of filmmaking because of its characters, all of whom feel genuine and three-dimensional in ways that typical screenwriting fails to pull off.
What is the consensus?
****
Answer: Worthwhile as both a well-acted ensemble piece and as a smart, warm statement on family values, The Kids Are All Right is remarkable.


Problem: 1. Stanley Kubrick's first genuinely original movie has been seen, reseen, dissected, and iconized, but a few sly truths about it have yet to be fully grokked.
2. Kubrick's great 1964 tragicomedy about superpowers on the nuclear brink continues to fascinate new generations of moviegoers, as its frequent reissues attest.
3. The most shattering sick joke I've ever come across.
4. This landmark movie's madcap humor and terrifying suspense remain undiminished by time.
5. It still features Peter Sellers' finest three performances as well as proving that the supposedly humourless Kubrick was up for a laugh.
6. Endures as one of the finest political satires.
7. Sound funny? It is.
8. Is Dr. Strangelove Kubrick's best movie? Along with Paths of Glory, absolutely.
9. The paradigm of all end-of-the-world political thrillers and a part of the American vernacular.
10. Stanley Kubrick's 40-year-old satirical polital-comedy about the end of the world is especially disturbing as one ponders world events at present.
What is the consensus?
****
Answer:
Stanley Kubrick's brilliant Cold War satire remains as funny and razor-sharp today as it was in 1964.