Q: 1. Right amongst the bottom end of the genre.
2. Barrymore is actually becoming quite the deft physical comedienne, unafraid to make herself look unsightly for effect. But her performance isn't enough to overcome even one of the other problems.
3. Not even Drew Barrymore's million-dollar smile can save this humiliating comedy!
4. A bogus, bottom-of-the-barrel Cinderella story!
5. Lazy. Clumsy. Miscast.
6. I was too delighted with the last two hours to complain.
7. It's a captivating, totally cool teenage chick's flick.
8. Embarrassing, witless!
9. It's silly teenage "Revenge of the Nerds" fun. And it's spirited.
10. Seriously flawed!
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Unoriginal and unremarkable high school satire adds little to the genre.


Q: 1. Cinematic fecal matter at its best.
2. Pretty much a complete waste of time.
3. If you love skateboarding, feel free to rent Grind, hit the mute button and fast forward through anything that doesn't involve a half-pipe.
4. Suitable entertainment for boys too young to shave.
5. First-time director Casey La Scala may have taken his fledgling film's title too literally, grinding together borrowed ingredients like a mischievous chef.
6. It's the sort of movie that makes American Wedding look... subtle by comparison. [T]his summer's notorious bomb Gigli is starting to look better and better.
7. Director La Scala can't direct his way out of this can of half-baked beans.
8. Brings Out The Worst Of A Fringe Sport That Fights For Mainstream Acceptance...this Film Fails So Completely In Almost Every Aspect.
9. Viewing the earthbound sequences in "Grind" is like watching the dialogue portions of pornos. Pity the viewers who catch this one without the benefit of a fast-forward or chapter select button.
10. You've seen and heard it before, dude.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Mediocre skateboard stunts are padded by a half-baked plot and one-dimensional characters.


Q: 1. A showcase for some of the most unforgettable special makeup effects work ever to see a movie screen.
2. Cronenberg, whose Max Renn might be seen as some sort of alter ego, however absolves technology from its share of responsibility for media-induced alienation.
3. More weird than scary.
4. Videodrome operates as a study in metaphysics; it draws attention to its medium and in doing so cleverly violates its fiction.
5. frequently nonsensical, but was years before its time
6. Home to the delicious Miltonic idea that what Adam dreams he wakes to find real.
7. Cronenberg continues his growth out of more obvious horror realms and ups the stakes with heavier philosophical entreaties for his characters to endure.
8. it feels like Cronenberg started with a great idea, and just wasn't sure what to do with it
9. On a line starting with quality and ending with incompetence.
10. Nearly twenty years after Videodrome was shot, it still feels contemporary.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Visually audacious, disorienting, and just plain weird, Videodrome's musings on technology, entertainment, and politics still feel fresh today.


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.