Q: 1. The fly-on-the-wall narrative observes the life of a slaughterhouse worker who grapples with poverty, misbehaving children, and the allure of violence.
2. There's a voyeuristic, woe-is-them quality to the film that makes me uncomfortable.
3. It may fill you with despair or offer up relief, but you will not be unmoved.
4. A film that is hard to forget.
5. It takes an eye-opening, unglamorous view of the black Los Angeles ghetto of the post-Watts riots.
6. A little known, long lost classic thankfully becomes available on DVD after decades of obscurity.
7. fills the screen with visual poetry that plays like intimate documentary
8. The fantastic thing about this beautiful film is how little it tries to make a statement about anything; it is, simply, life.
9. Burnett is a truly unsung cinematic movie pioneer, clearly in the vanguard in that lonely and trying battle to colorize, so to speak, ideas and experiences in film with his body of unheralded visionary work.
10. It's to Burnett's credit that he is able to observe problems of class and race without narrowing his vision to become an 'issues movie' or a sermon.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: By turns funny, sad, and profound, Killer of Sheep offers a sympathetic and humane glimpse into inner-city life.
1. The more testimonies you hear from guards, journalists and a former Gitmo detainee about what's going on behind closed doors, the more a horrific bigger picture appears.
2. I hope that every concerned moviegoer sees this film, but I doubt that many will.
3. The usefully horrifying documentary Taxi to the Dark Side follows a map that leads to the notorious prison abuses in Iraq's Abu Ghraib to policies in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp.
4. The Enron director's sharp, shaming torture exposé tracks another Great American Meltdown.
5. A meticulous examination...Taxi is impressive.
6. Gibney assembles a formidable arsenal of talking heads to testify.
7. If recent American history is ever going to be discussed with the necessary clarity and ethical rigor, Taxi to the Dark Side will be essential.
8. There's a self-righteous fury to Gibney's film that might have been problematic if the subject matter wasn't so important -- and the evidence against the White House so persuasive.
9. If you haven't already questioned the current government administration about some of their actions and tactics than this movie should be the last nail in that coffin.
10. Without cheapening the suffering of American or Afghan, the film retrieves the torture issue from the realm of the abstract and gives the plain facts of this world right now. As long as we still care about people and power, they will matter.
Consensus: Taxi to the Dark Side is an intelligent, powerful look into the dark corners of the War on Terror.
Q: 1. It's well worth seeing, because it is well made -- apart from a few gaps in logic -- and well acted.
2. Hard Candy is not perfect, but it is a provocative piece of filmmaking with a dark and daring heart that makes it worth seeing.
3. If Slade's intent is so clever, then why is the film so stupid as to hamfist a two-hour anti-pedophilia PSA down the throats of an entire culture that, by and large, already agrees with the premise...?
4. A calculated provocation with pretensions to public service value (think of the infamous 'molester' episode of 'Diff'rent Strokes').
5. ... icky, incoherent thriller ...
6. The aptly named Hard Candy is a challenging, flawed but strangely engrossing film.
7. Hard Candy is an exploitation film, with very little happening but a guy getting tortured for about 75 minutes of screen time.
8. ... a film that gives you something to think about, raising questions that linger long after the theater lights have brightened.
9. It's cinematic S&M, a bondage-control game masquerading as a thriller.
10. ... no matter who does what to whom, what you're looking at is My Torture Session with Andrew, in one way or another.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Disturbing, controversial, but entirely engrossing, Hard Candy is well written with strong lead performances, especially that of newcomer Ellen Page. A movie that stays with the viewer long after leaving the theater.
1. Though it may not be Guest et al's best effort to date, it's definitely not a shabby one. Fans of the troupe's odd humor and scathingly accurate caricatures will find much to be pleased about here
2. A Mighty Wind looks like it wasn't a big challenge for Guest and his ensemble cast of mockumentary regulars. But if this is what [they] can accomplish on cruise control all the power to them.
3. A Mighty Wind is a decent comedy, but it's also A Teeny Bland.
4. Without a familiarity with its characters, the movie plays out more like what it is ... than what it pretends to be.
5. The humour is very dry, only occasionally absurd, and always extremely close to the bone.
6. Guest manages to create a movie that is funny and somehow more touching and heartfelt than his earlier work.
7. ...the movie never makes fun of its subject, but pokes gentle fun at some of the more eccentric folk involved in it.
8. The film is merciless as it takes sharp aim with smooth, subtle style at many of the celebrity affectations that have been given a pass for too long now.
9. There are fewer laugh-out-loud moments than in Guest's previous efforts, but the lost laughs are traded for a greater-than-expected amount of poignancy.
10. After his previous windows on the absurd ... A Mighty Wind proves that Guest has turned parody into an art form.
Consensus: Though not as uproariously funny as Guest's previous movies, A Mighty Wind is also more heartfelt.
Q: 1. The sheer technical brilliance of the battle sequences and martial arts showdowns is mind-blowing -- this is the kind of movie that's so visually dynamic that it's compelling even when we could care less about the people on screen.
2. The ever-luminous Gong Li and the wickedly nonchalant Chow Yun-Fat are wonderful together.
3. The morbid grandiosity of Curse of the Golden Flower is its own distinctive accomplishment, another remarkable chapter in the career of Asia's most important living filmmaker.
4. A visually sumptuous action drama by Zhang Yimou, who proves himself to be the Busby Berkeley of our times.
5. Eye-popping. One of the year's most spectacularly visual treats. It has wide-screen images that are beyond astounding.
6. Curse of the Golden Flower is a triumph of set dressing, cinematography and costuming. Now if only it were compelling.
7. The year's most operatic and visually lavish film.
8. Few filmmakers could produce so grand a spectacle, but [director] Zhang used to be good for more than just eye candy.
9. Amidst all of this excess, an actor can too easily disappear, or be reduced to a hanger for a costume. But Gong Li, the standout in the cast, does wonders with her melodramatic role.
10. Its overabundance is more blessing than curse, however, provided you can suspend disbelief over a campy plot and focus on one lush, eye-popping scene after another.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Melodrama, swordplay, and CG armies -- fans of martial arts epic will get what they bargain for, though the baroque art direction can be both mesmerizing and exhaustively excessive.