question: The Rundown doesn't break any new ground, but it's a smart, funny buddy action picture with terrific comic chemistry between Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Seann William Scott.

numbered reviews: 1. Not a single character behaves with any logic at all, but at least they're colourful and energetic enough to keep our interest.
2. It shows potential for a new franchise and a new star, or stars, in the genre.
3. The Rock is the action star of the new millennium, and his charismatic presence in The Rundown solidifies that.
4. A smart, fun actioner.
5. Worth the chase, the Rundown is simple entertainment at it's best.
6. One of those failed adventure yarns in which the character interaction is forced to make up for other shortcomings.
7. It's a fun ride and a throwback to the kind of action movies that were popular in the 1980s, the days before ... special effects dominated every frame.
8. [T]he plot and the characters and the action set pieces all have to be built around an action star. The Rundown... indicates that the Rock is ready to be that star.
9. It's hardly original but The Rundown still manages to be great fun.
10. Despite the occasional dry patch, The Rundown is too good-natured to resist for long.


question: Hirokazu Kore-eda's film may seem modest at first, but this family drama casts a delicate, entrancing spell.

numbered reviews: 1. It will strongly move you, but you won't be able to say exactly why. It illuminates 24 hours in the life of a Japanese family, and though it may appear that not much is happening, by the end everything is revealed.
2. Sensitively demonstrates how nothing much happening to this idiosyncratic family is the universal story of every family.
3. There's also a touch of Bergman-style family angst here, and in the tale of the drowned golden boy and the surviving son, even a little bit of Ordinary People.
4. ...seems more French than Japanese with its chaotic gathering and multi-layered and constant dialogue.
5. A gentle, absorbing drama that carefully modulates sentimentality with an eye for the way family members can be casually cruel to each other and outsiders.
6. Kore-eda, talented director that he is, never allows the story to sink into soap-opera melodrama, and he refrains from pointing fingers.
7. Hirokazu Kore-Eda's latest effort, further entrenches my belief he should be considered one of Japan's living treasures.
8. Kore-eda has an extraordinary grasp on his characters, modest people who clearly mean a great deal to him. They will to you, as well.
9. Hirokazu Koreeda has written and directed a family drama that tells a powerful story that can not be told through words alone.
10. The Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has a deceptively simple touch with the quiet, stirring film Still Walking.


question: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is as persuasive and engrossing as it is unapologetically biased.

numbered reviews: 1. Bartley and O'Briain do an excellent job in deconstructing the Venezuelan TV news footage of blood, chaos, and rival crowds.
2. while there is a story to be told about the 2002 coup, this is definitely not the documentary to tell it.
3. Filmmakers Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Brien happen to be in all the right places at all the right times.
4. [Bartley and O'Briain]'s fearlessness, unobtrusive narration, and lack of Michael Moore man-and-microphone pandering are to be saluted.
5. Rough-hewn, improvisatory and contentedly lo-fi, the resulting documentary should prove warmly encouraging to embattled progressives of all stripes, and incidentally offers the best political date-movie of the week.
6. Amazingly immediate, and without any caramel coating of happy talk.
7. An extraordinary inside look at politics at its most urgent, volatile and bare-knuckled.
8. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is an extraordinary piece of electronic history. And a riveting movie.
9. The filmmakers, simply forgotten in the dramatic rush of events, capture the anatomy of a coup as it crystallized and unraveled, and history nearly recorded itself.
10. Fascinating, intense but disturbingly incomplete and one-sided...an accomplished, involving but highly selective account of a still-charged historical event.


question: Though it occasionally stalls, Talladega Nights' mix of satire, clever gags, and excellent ensemble performances put it squarely in the winner's circle.

numbered reviews:
1. Will Ferrell and director/writing collaborator Adam McKay have carved out a comfortable comic niche in taking confidently clueless oafs and pulling the rug out from under the core of resolutely prototypical alpha male existence.
2. i concur with everything bobby has to say about highlander
3. The movie takes a piecemeal approach that allows for several guffaw-inducing comic bits, but doesn't hold together enough for a sustained comic experience.
4. Talladega starts out slow, picks up speed in the middle, and nearly crashes and burns in the end.
5. Often a one-note joke that goes on way too long...
6. You pretty much have to like Will Ferrell to like Talladega Nights, it's his film through and through. But if you do, you're in for a ride.
7. Playing to his strengths, star and co-writer Will Ferrell reaps many good comic moments early on in Adam Mckay's feature to compensate for a sluggish second half.
8. Showcases Will Ferrell's comedy genius to perfection.
9. A comedy with horsepower to spare.
10. The script by Ferrell and director Adam McKay, a parody of sports biopics, takes the same freewheeling approach that served them well on Anchorman, but with a more mean-spirited edge.