Q: 1. Clever, taut, drenched in Hitchcockian dread, and very well done.
2. This multi-layered thriller is a tightening knot of noir fascination involving mysterious bodyguards, car chases, top-secret documents, the CIA and end even hidden codes.
3. It might not be the right time for a Polanski film to play in a theater near you, but those unwilling to forgive the sinner will be missing the first great film of 2010, a Manchurian Candidate for the post-9/11 world.
4. How odd that the two latest films by two of the world's greatest living filmmakers should be adaptations of bestsellers set on islands off the coast of Massachusetts. And that both should be disappointing.
5. Polanski and co-writer Robert Harris mix political allegory and standard thriller conventions effectively, executing all the twists with style.
6. A smart, tight picture that looks just nifty and goes down as smooth as a glass of the nicely aged whisky enjoyed at intervals by the film's protagonist.
7. Polanski draws in his viewers with this well paced, suspense-drama that grows increasingly darker, both in tone and texture.
8. It's not one of Polanski's masterpieces, but The Ghost Writer doesn't dilute his reputation as a master of suspense.
9. ... although the film's locations are suspect, the overall production, capped by an Alexander Desplat score that recalls "North by Northwest," has Hitchcockian pleasures.
10. I am consistently amazed at Roman Polanski's seemingly effortless mastery of cinematic craft. There is no wasted energy and no indulgence.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: While it may lack the revelatory punch of Polanski's finest films, Ghost Writer benefits from stylish direction, a tense screenplay, and a strong central performance from Ewan McGregor.
1. Oh, lighten up! It's a pulpy combo of Starship Troopers, The Dirty Dozen and Sky Captain. Perfect for a rainy Saturday afternoon.
2. not only ridiculously lame but sickeningly contrived
3. Mutant Chronicles is The Dirty Dozen - but with murderous mutants!
4. ...suffers from a pervadingly low-rent sensibility that proves impossible to overlook.
5. You won't understand what's going on and, even worse, you won't care.
6. I dearly hope John Malkovich got paid handsomely for his two days of embarrassment on-set.
7. Every guy has watched an action film and wondered when we'd get to the good stuff, but from minute one we're given "the good stuff," but it's just not executed well enough, and the film is too kitschy to really be enjoyed.
8. The feature is better executed in a shoot-first-ask-questions-later style that encourages silence and brutality. Once the material is asked to explain itself, the entertainment value of the film curdles immediately.
9. Mutant Chronicles has an intriguing premise, good performances and some decent effects, but it's let down by some terrible pacing and an extremely dull script.
10. There is some excitement to be had. However, it looks like a computer game unwisely made into a movie without the money to do it justice.
Consensus: Bad acting, poor CGI and clunky script mean this sci-fi thriller is lacking in all departments including the thrills.
Q: 1. For all of the talk about its legendary car chase through the streets of San Francisco -- and it is justified -- Bullitt idles far tool long in the slow lane when it should be blowing by the minivans and the carpoolers.
2. Classic McQueen. He's a badass and that car chase still holds up.
3. It's more than just that great car chase. The whole film is gritty, down-to-earth and enjoyable.
4. Steve McQueen is nevertheless very impressive in his role.
5. If there is any one of his many movie roles that best exemplifies the McQueen persona, it would have to be this one.
6. McQueen is great in Bullitt, and the movie is great, because director Peter Yates understands the McQueen image and works within it. He winds up with about the best action movie of recent years.
7. Stlick, stylish and ineffably cool, this was perhaps McQueen's defining role. Also mention goes to the uncreditied star of the film; San Francisco.
8. Even though the story almost makes no sense and the Oscar-winning editing has several illogical cuts, Bullitt is an exquisitely satisfying motion picture, particularly if there is still an adolescent boy lodged somewhere in your psyche.
9. A terrific movie, just right for Steve McQueen -- fast, well acted, written the way people talk.
10. One of the cinema's very best car-chase sequences -- set amid the hilly, windy San Francisco streets -- caps this quintessential Steve McQueen policier.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Steve McQueen is cool as ice in this thrilling police procedural that also happens to contain the arguably greatest car chase ever.
Q: 1. The movie is packed with characters and likable actors, and if you know the source it's fun seeing how the filmmakers have cast to the cartoon.
2. "Scott Pilgrim" devotes itself so firmly to re-creating the look of O'Malley's saga that it forces and fumbles the feel, full of (indie-rock) sound and (kung-fu) fury, (emotionally) signifying nothing.
3. This astonishing, exhilarating and funny movie has been fired directly from the world of comic books at the big screen with genre-smashing panache.
4. A clever send-up of comic book and video games (circa 1990), this movie illustrates that writer/director Edgar Wright can rise to the next level.
5. At its best, Wright's film is raucous, impudent entertainment.
6. Shallow ... repetitive ... Still: Being really funny and dorky-chic is the goal here and that's exactly what Scott Pilgrim is.
7. Michael Cera makes for a fine action hero. And while I'm at it, keep Brandon Routh as Superman!
8. Like an animatronic kitten that won't leave you alone, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World wins its audience over on adorable persistence.
9. An ambitious, wildly original action-comedy that could prove to be a game-changer for the comic book genre in the same way that James Cameron's Avatar was for 3-D.
10. Edgar Wright is cinema's most inspired mash-up artist, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World may be his finest hybridization to date, a romantic comedy recast as a męlée-heavy video game.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Its script may not be as dazzling as its eye-popping visuals, but Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is fast, funny, and inventive.