question: A landmark Sergio Leone spaghetti western masterpiece featuring a classic Morricone score.

numbered reviews: 1. With its amazing widescreen compositions and epic running time, this Western truly wins points for length and width.
2. I'm still in awe.
3. 'even the quieter romantic or reflective moments are filled with a sense of energy coming from the expectation that at any given moment something huge is going to happen.'
4. Explores legends and entombs myths into a film that is timeless and will live on as a work of art even if the western as we once knew it disappeared alongside its heroes.
5. Stunning big-screen cowboy film.
6. There are plenty of unforgettable moments, such as that sublime crane shot over the new settlement of Flagstone, accompanied by Ennio Morricone's achingly romantic music.
7. A masterpiece of style.
8. Leone's masterpiece, the pinnacle of his storied career
9. Sergio Leone made a fistful of great films, but none better than 1968's ode to the fading American frontier, Once Upon a Time in the West.
10. One of the greatest face movies ever made.


question: There is indeed a good amount of tension in this French slasher, but the dubbing is bad and the end twist unbelievable.

numbered reviews: 1. A lame exercise, delivering shameless thrills at the expense of logic and genuine suspense.
2. Unfortunately, they squander their white-knuckle goodwill on an 11th-hour about-face so preposterous it undermines everything that preceded it.
3. You have to give it to the filmmakers for their contempt of convention: no foreplay, no teasing, no steady buildup of dread, just a knock on the door and the slaughterer is there.
4. Director Alexandre Aja, who wrote this with Gregory Levasseur, doesn't have a gift for horror suspense so much as a compleat geek knowledge of all the superior scare flicks that have preceded High Tension.
5. A humorless, even borderline pretentious exercise in sick scaremongering...
6. The movie [isn't] scary, suspenseful, thought-provoking or -- heck -- even remotely entertaining.
7. Even a bloody lesbian kiss can't save this flick.
8. See this only if you have a taste for gore.
9. Can a film be undone by its lame twist ending? In the case of High Tension, the answer is yes.
10. Very bloody, sometimes difficult to watch and sometimes just tiresome.


question: With a ridiculous plot and comical acting, checking one's brain at the door is required before watching DOA: Dead or Alive.

numbered reviews: 1. Charlie's Angels, Survivor, American Gladiators and Girls Gone Wild are just some of the bad influences on Hong Kong action director Corey Yuen's laughably silly adaptation of the video game DOA: Dead or Alive.
2. Charlie's Angels 3 it ain't, but big up to director Corey Yuen for crafting a splashy and appropriately trashy fighting flick that chicks can cheer for.
3. DOA was the right title for this, acronym-bending or not.
4. There was a time when movies like DOA: Dead or Alive lurked sheepishly at schoolboy height on video store shelves, spines straining to accommodate the charms of their actresses.
5. DOA: Dead or Alive aspires to be nothing more than a sanctuary from thinking.
6. Call it the Guilty Pleasure of the year for me. Hell, it's a heck of a lot more entertaining than Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
7. While the teen target audience may be convinced that this is exciting, the rest of us will leave the theater exhausted and with brain cells thoroughly fried.
8. Corey Yuen and his writers have adapted their dubiously titled DOA: Dead or Alive from the video game series of the same name -- apparently convinced that the scraps of backstory originally scribbled by the gamers were plenty.
9. If Corey Yuen believed in truth in advertising, ala Snakes on a Plane, this flick would have a name like Jiggly Babes Kick Butt. The stuff that post-pubescent dreams are made of.
10. Smarmy, lasciviously trashy, butt-kicking bikini-jiggle fest


question: Simultaneously broad and progressive, Spy offers further proof that Melissa McCarthy and writer-director Paul Feig bring out the best in one another -- and delivers scores of belly laughs along the way.

numbered reviews:
1. Spy points the way to deploying all of Melissa McCarthy's ferocious talents - the good, bad and over the top - as a leading lady.
2. for the most part, Spy is solid
3. There is currently no more exciting and rewarding moment in filmed comedy than watching Melissa McCarthy ad-lib.
4. Paul Feig doesn't bring out the best in Melissa McCarthy. He's a skilled wingman who lets her shine on her own.
5. McCarthy has much more to discover about herself as an actor and an avatar and a cultural signifier, and I hope she doesn't get trapped by one role, one genre or one franchise. But her campaign of conquest is going well.
6. Melissa McCarthy finally gets a decent star vehicle.
7. There is slapstick here, but we know Susan has the chops to handle things and we are, thankfully, never invited to simply 'laugh at the fat girl'.
8. The new movie starring Melissa McCarthy, the reigning queen of profane, physical film comedy, is also smart, heartfelt and full of female empowerment. It lampoons the James Bond genre and asks: Why should the guys have all the fun?
9. After credits at the end of Spy started rolling, I had a hankering to see it again.
10. When a movie delivers a laugh a minute during its two-hour running time, you're getting a lot of comedic bang for your buck.