question: A rare film that surpasses the quality of its source novel, this Devil is a witty expose of New York's fashion scene, with Meryl Streep in top form and Anne Hathaway more than holding her own.

numbered reviews: 1. Streep rules! This doyenne of the designer dress turns fashion obsession into fun.
2. The Devil Wears Prada tells a familiar story, and it never goes much below the surface of what it has to tell. Still, what a surface!
3. (The cast) take their characters as far as possible in the film's opening act but are required to hit the same notes over and over in the limited, repetitive screenplay.
4. The storyline sets itself up for plenty of phony pay-offs, but thankfully doesn't deliver on them. It actually knows better.
5. The Devil Wears Prada is primarily an occasion to celebrate Meryl Streep as a grand comedienne.
6. A slick but flimsy knock-off, almost as superficial as the industry it pretends to dress down.
7. Streep's expert comic timing is also on display in The Devil Wears Prada an otherwise bland small-town-girl-in-the-big-city story that's enlivened by her performance as a domineering magazine editor.
8. The biggest problem with the movie, however, is that it tries to make a big deal out of a subject that has been beaten to death in the tabloids and the media.
9. For the life of me, I can't understand anyone not liking this movie!
10. Move over, Julia Roberts ---- here comes Anne Hathaway.


question: Thanks to the spirited performances of a talented cast - particularly Will Ferrell and Jon Heder as rivals-turned-teammates -- Blades of Glory successfully spoofs inspirational sports dramas with inspired abandon.

numbered reviews: 1. Blades doesn't hit the non sequitur heights of Anchorman or Talladega Nights, but the cast is great and several gags hit hard.
2. Silly as a drag queen convention and subtle as an un-flushed toilet, Blades of Glory is everything you'd hope for in a Will Ferrell comedy.
3. With Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell and Jon Heder stake an early claim to being the comedy couple of the year.
4. Ferrell and Heder have yet to prove themselves as great actors, but they are great clowns, working the material for all it's worth.
5. Equal parts inspiration, perspiration and hairspray, Blades of Glory is silly and enjoyable but not as consistently funny as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Ferrell's last sports spoof.
6. On ice, the movie is often fairly funny. Off it, the garish outfits, the genitalia jokes, the beer-slob gags about gays, the women as cheap laughs, even the cute guest cameos start to shiver and melt.
7. Blades of Glory is a feeble satire that doesn't do much that's incisive or interesting, and the tame PG-13 rating keeps the raunchiness in check.
8. [Will Ferrell's] new film is easily on a par with [his] earlier efforts.
9. Dumb with a capital D, Blades of Glory takes its (almost) fleshed-out sketch-comedy idea as far as an ice-skating buddy movie with we're-not-gay jokes and a psycho stalker can go.
10. If there was an Olympics for purely fun movies, this would skate away with one of those pretty medals.


question: Though the movie treads familar ground in the heist/caper genre, DeNiro, Norton, and Brando make the movie worth watching.

numbered reviews: 1. An extravagantly cast buddy movie, a summertime caper flick, peppered with a few thrills and many laughs.
2. Like a diet cola, The Score has fizz, but very little savor and no calories to speak of.
3. The script is only so-so but it has a terrific retro style, it's well-directed and it makes an engrossing showcase for its trio of stars.
4. The acting amplitude of Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Edward Norton gives Frank Oz's finely wrought film dimensions and resonance rare in a heist drama.
5. With its star lineup, The Score is an important film that allows its cast room to explore the characters.
6. De Niro and Norton play off of each other beautifully.
7. ...no worse or no better than the rest, which makes it just good enough.
8. A top-drawer heist movie that ratchets up the tension inch by careful inch, The Score will remind you of classic caper films of the past, and that is a good thing.
9. There are explosions, double-crosses and chase sequences, but it just doesn't add up to edge-of-your-seat tension.
10. The Score plays a familiar tune, but plays it well.


question: Featuring one of Tom Cruise's best early performances, Risky Business is a sharp, funny examination of teen angst that doesn't stop short of exploring dark themes.

numbered reviews:
1. One of the finest film explorations of the end of innocence.
2. Seeing [Cruise] so baby faced is the biggest surprise, but his talent was definitely visible.
3. It's easy to forget the idiosyncracies of a film that so successfully trades on adolescent male fantasies and nightmares. [Blu-ray]
4. For writer/director Paul Brickman, this was a case of being in the right place at the right time and, perhaps most importantly, getting the right leading man in place.
5. De Mornay does sterling work as the helpful hooker, but this is Cruise's big chance, and he relishes it, putting in a believable and likeable performance.
6. It works well as a comedy but one cringes at the thought that it defined, for a while, the social expectations of a generation.
7. Writer/director Paul Brickman has honed a sharp satire on American go-getting here.
8. As adolescent adventures go, Risky Business is an invigorating, first-class affair: It manages to make coming of age a witty proposition.
9. A capitalist wet dream; one that we have long since woken up from screaming.
10. It's sexy, smart and funny, but also stylish and filled with social satire and commentary on the culture of money.