question: Smart, funny, and profoundly melancholy, Inside Llewyn Davis finds the Coen brothers in fine form.

numbered reviews: 1. ...a meditation on authenticity, the mystery of creation and the mischief that is made in the lands between art and commerce
2. Every scene in Inside Llewyn Davis is a sumptuous delicacy of dialogue, performance, setting and scintillating subtext.
3. Flawed, multi-dimensional characters are a Coen brothers specialty. You'll like none of them but will love the movie and the music.
4. The wonderful thing about a Coen Brothers film is the fact that you are never sure exactly what you are going to get. One thing is for sure, you will always get more than you've bargained for
5. The Coen brothers have composed something special with their anti-hero story of a young muso on whom fate has slammed the door. The surprising thing is that despite this apparently bleak theme, the Coens craft something unique, warm and big hearte
6. The best film of 2013. ... As with many works from great filmmakers, how much you invest in the movie may determine how much you derive from it.
7. The unreliable, brooding Llewyn is a prickly sort, making it a challenge for his industry - and movie audiences - to fully embrace him. And yet, the talent is undeniable.
8. A flawless piece of classic Coen brothers cinema, exquisitely timed and told by all. Quite possibly their finest work yet.
9. Incisive, irresistible and often very funny, Inside Llewyn Davis also proves itself to be a poignant and quietly profound meditation on what it means to be an artist.
10. Definitive for any artist whose drive to persevere demands a wanton disregard for practical sense


question: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a subtly touching and wonderfully eccentric adventure featuring Wallace and Gromit.

numbered reviews: 1. [Not] merely one of the best animated films of the year; it's the best, and further, ranks among 2005's most satisfying cinematic experiences.
2. An Oscar-winning comedy duo finally debuts in a feature film, and it's just as harebrained as you'd expec
3. An unqualified success.
4. Despite its vocal distractions, this clay-animation comedy adventure managed to dazzle me with its sheer audacity and inventiveness.
5. This might be Plasticine's finest hour.
6. Taken as a whole, this is a superb film and an astonishing technical achievement.
7. ...the humor is all of a piece with [Park's] earlier work, dense with background jokes
8. Superb craftsmanship.
9. Giggle inducing with a few truly high quality guffaws. In terms of silly joy, it's hard to beat.
10. The script this time is really better than the animation and the result is genuinely funny. This is an animated film, but it aims to please the whole family and its aim is good.


question: It may evoke memories of classic summer blockbusters a little too eagerly for some, but Super 8 has thrills, visual dazzle, and emotional depth to spare.

numbered reviews: 1. Abrams deserves a lot of credit for keeping this movie's heart in the right place even as the plot gets increasingly implausible.
2. Writer/director J.J. Anrams' nifty, nostalgic homage to the innocence and wonder epitomized by his mentor/producer Steven Spielberg.
3. The kids have no effect on the story, not the military's interference in the accident clean up, not the finale, etc. Even the Super 8 reel doesn't change their behavior, so it's almost as if the entire movie is a MacGuffin.
4. Worthy of the adjective Spielbergian indeed.
5. J.J. Abrams' Super 8 can't live up to its advanced billing, but it's still a crisp combination of 'Goonies,' 'Stand By Me' and ... I can't spoil the rest.
6. Will serve as brilliant family viewing, or viewing for science fiction geeks...
7. It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. With Super 8, Steven Spielberg must be blushing like a reticent schoolgirl who just got asked to the formal.
8. A love letter to a cinematic era, before 'blockbuster' became a synonym for 'franchise' or 'tent pole.'
9. Remember the good old days? This is the movie you went to see on a Saturday afternoon in the good old days.
10. Let's be honest: the b.s. sci-fi plot is so much empty machinery, which becomes steadily more apparent as the film wends its way toward a heavy-metal climax that's narratively and emotionally questionable.


question: Featuring wooden performances and minimal scares, The Eye is another tedious remake of an Asian horror film.

numbered reviews:
1. A poorly acted and instantly forgettable supernatural thriller.
2. You're better off avoiding any eye contact with this movie.
3. One of the less awful horror remakes in recent years.
4. The Eye remake rolls off Hollywood's Asian horror assembly line like expired goods that have been repackaged.
5. The feel-good Japanese horror remake vehicle of the year! No, that's a bad thing.
6. Alba is very good at looking very good... but she's quite terrible at looking very scared, or very traumatized...
7. stupendously bad
8. Directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud ... and screenwriter Sebastian Gutierrez ... cleave very close to the [original Hong Kong] film in many ways, yet the result is far less satisfying.
9. A thin premise frays the audience's patience.
10. Despite some good, shocking visual images, the execution leaves much to be desired, and overall this remake is not as effective as the 2003 Hong Kong original--or the helmers' first (French) feature, Them.