question: The Cider House Rules has wonderful performances, lovely visuals, and an old-fashioned feel.

numbered reviews: 1. Hampered by its own illusions of grandeur.
2. So well crafted and intelligent that it feels churlish to point out that it's easier to admire than actually like.
3. more patches than a quilt despite its sincerely fine beginning.
4. So underwhelming and vacant that it's impossible for many to understand what exactly the picture is trying to say.
5. Yawn.
6. It's mostly well-made and good-looking, and it's also mostly empty.
7. Meandering and unfocused.
8. The Cider House Rules isn't one film at all. It's two films, only one of which is successful.
9. Hallström has given us John Irving defanged, and what's the point in that?
10. Meandering and unfocused.


question: Depp is quirkily entertaining, but the movie runs out of steam by the end.

numbered reviews: 1. N'empęche une autre performance de qualité de Johnny Depp, Fenętre secrčte finit par s'effriter ŕ mesure que l'on avance vers sa résolution
2. Even Johnny Depp in quirk-overdrive can't save it, his slyly insincere performance eventually irritating as much as the sincerely stupid movie he's stuck in.
3. Anyone with a passing knowledge of King's jam-packed oeuvre and its spotty movie translations will be fidgeting in their seats from the get-go.
4. Good thing the people serving this utilitarian story have the wit to dress it up a little and make it dance.
5. Torna-se năo apenas um suspense eficiente, mas também um curioso estudo de personagens.
6. Mr. Depp demonstrates once again that he never disappoints as an actor, even in something as fraudulent as Secret Window.
7. A mystery whose secret is obvious from the beginning and a thriller without any genuine thrills.
8. At a loss for what to do while I was sitting there, I wondered why Depp would agree to play the role in a hairdo inspired by Carrot Top.
9. Writer-Director Koepp well understood the best qualities of the story and held back the almost demeaning payoff as long as he could.
10. Strange and a little awkward, "Secret Window" nonetheless is worth a look.


question: Jurassic Park III is darker and faster than its predecessors, but that doesn't quite compensate for the franchise's continuing creative decline.

numbered reviews: 1. The Jurassic movies have by now palpably entered the plane of baldly profit-hunting, unpretentious entertainment...
2. Gone are the emotional elements that made Jurassic Park the thrill-ride it was.
3. Does offer a few genuinely horrific images.
4. It is not art, but it is fun.
5. Requires little brain-power to contemplate its almost non-existent plot; instead, it tries to sustain audiences with one dinosaur chase after another.
6. A straight-ahead matinee actioner, all bark and bite but little soul.
7. Much like an ice cream cone, this one is fairly fun while it lasts and entirely forgettable after the fact.
8. Whereas the success of sequels is generally dependent upon how many of the original stars and key filmmaking personnel such as writer and director, this excellent monster movie would stand on its own.
9. Never overdoes itself, and its story never distracts from the action.
10. If there's one thing certain in this new instalment of Jurassic Park, it's that the critters are a whole lot smarter, faster and interesting than the Homo sapiens dropping in on them.


question: Polisse is a gripping and powerful procedural drama filled with fine acting and unflinching eye for truth and brutality.

numbered reviews:
1. Great camera work and postproduction combined with the genuine grit of police work make this a film to see.
2. A sizzling French drama about a courageous team of men and women in a Parisian Child Protection Unit who struggle to survive the daily deluge of crime and chaos.
3. The fragmented narrative and use of juxtaposition that Maďwenn adopts for Polisse results in an engaging portrait of an ensemble of people and cases.
4. This challenging police-procedural docudrama is worth watching closely and taking seriously.
5. If there's one thing this Cannes-feted drama portrays incisively, it's the porousness of the characters' existence: Work bleeds into life and life into work, wreaking havoc on their respective moral compasses.
6. While never exploitative, "Polisse" can be extremely disturbing.
7. Polisse is a film not about police but about police films. It delivers in that regard, but its thin psychological component and attention-grabbing showiness deny it lasting importance.
8. It's filled with shocking dialogue and disturbing content, but treats it all in a strangely facile way.
9. Inspired by a documentary, the film is shot with vérité immediacy and beautifully acted by an outstanding ensemble.
10. Over the film's more-than-two-hour running time we are immersed in the lives of these cops as they attempt both to see justice done and to preserve their sanity.