question: Thirteen Days offers a compelling look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, and its talented cast deftly portrays the real-life people who were involved.

numbered reviews: 1. Thirteen Days will make you shudder, but only in ways the filmmakers intended.
2. It's a slick, efficient thriller that keeps driving forward lucidly and relentlessly.
3. Thirteen Days is like TV writ large, but not large enough to freshly illuminate history.
4. People will be watching Thirteen Days long after journalism's junkyard dogs have gone snapping after other prey.
5. I call the movie a thriller, even though the outcome is known, because it plays like one.
6. Though the outcome is a foregone conclusion, this movie still delivers a thrilling ride.
7. Despite its problems, Thirteen Days offers a chilling look at how close to destruction our world came in 1962.
8. Thirteen Days is a tribute to the moment when John F. Kennedy developed a legacy worth remembering, a moment in Washington when wisdom prevailed.
9. Thirteen Days sustains a pretty good boil for a movie that's basically a series of scenes of middle-aged white guys shouting at each other.
10. A sober and sobering film.


question: This middling installment in the Transporter franchise is a few steps down from its predecessors, featuring generic stunts and a lack of energy.

numbered reviews: 1. Silly, imaginative fun.
2. Incoherent and inconsistent, this is a step back for Statham in his quest to become more than a cult figure.
3. The flashy editing gets on one's wick and no one's going to win an Oscar - but, really, who's complaining? This is straight-up fisticuff fun.
4. With its eco-trappings, car chases and fights, the film feels very sub-Quantum Of Solace. The fact that Quantum itself felt very sub-Bourne says even less for Transporter 3. Even if you're a Statham fan, this series is starting to feel tired.
5. With insulting action sequences and a tacked-on love scene, the movie quickly veers into a downward spiral.
6. As a fan of Statham and the Transporter series, it's a massive disappointment. The story makes no sense, and there aren't even very many fight scenes.
7. I wanted to be transported out of the theater.
8. For the most part, the fights and chases are as implausible as the story, but there's an extraordinarily clever escape-from-certain-death bit about 20 minutes from the end that I don't think I've ever seen before.
9. Transporter 3 is a reassuringly beefy thriller in which Jason Statham has to drive very fast across Eastern Europe with a Ukranian beauty queen on the seat beside him. No one, including Jason, has the slightest clue why. Never mind.
10. Statham is a relatively entertaining action hero - though he is better in the Crank films. The script is by Besson, but the director is Olivier Megaton, whose surname is the most exciting thing about the film.


question: Terrifying and funny in almost equal measure, John Landis' horror-comedy crosses genres while introducing Rick Baker's astounding make-up effects.

numbered reviews: 1. A fresh look at getting at the werewolf fable.
2. A strong black comedy that's still good 20-some years later.
3. Howlingly fun and frightening. 1980's state-of-the-art gore effects.
4. Seems curiously unfinished, as if director John Landis spent all his energy on spectacular set pieces and then didn't want to bother with things like transitions, character development, or an ending.
5. This movie presented a radical melange of genuine horror and self-aware comic touches, not to mention the fabulous Rick Baker special effects.
6. Awesome horror movie, great use of music for comedic effect, and the transformation still rules.
7. Okay werewolf flick that's overproduced and tries too hard.
8. Um filme que se mantém engraçado e assustador - e a maquiagem de Rick Baker ainda impressiona.
9. When the movie backfires, which it finally does, it's because too much grisly footage has been used too lightly.
10. When somebody says "Stay off the moors," you should listen.


question: The Dead Zone combines taut direction from David Cronenberg and and a rich performance from Christopher Walken to create one of the strongest Stephen King adaptations.

numbered reviews:
1. Chrisopher Walken gives a thoughtful performance as a psychic-in-spite-of-himself who must save the world from a mad politician.
2. One of
3. Isn't about anything really save the crushing disappointment of ambition and the unbearable lightness of being.
4. Mr. Cronenberg's direction is vivid and effective; his pacing is a little unemphatic at times, but the film's individual scenes are very well staged.
5. An unusually thoughtful and engrossing horror flick with a terrific performance by Walken.
6. A dud.
7. Brilliantly creepy Walken
8. ...near perfect...
9. One of King's better cinematic adaptations.
10. Cronenberg's most accessible film. Very good, but not great.