Q: 1. Easily one of the more delightful, charming and comical imports of the past couple of years.
2. An amusing, good-hearted confluence of family, cultural and gender issues that blends aspects of Billy Elliott and Monsoon Wedding into its own distinctive Mulligatawny soup.
3. The only thing bad about this movie is its title. Once you get beyond that you find a feel-good, sports, coming-of-age, girl-empowerment drama immersed in a cultural adaptation story that works for all cultures and genders.
4. Its sleek, easygoing, utterly un-remarkable charm has precious little to recommend it outside of the standard coming-of-age or date-night movie.
5. It's a plot as old as Aristophanes - finding and being who you are is the richest tradition to follow.
6. What sets this film apart . . . is the underlying but palpable affection with which director and co-writer Gurinda Chadha invests her characters.
7. Slight, corny, and hopelessly predictable.
8. It's a good thing this baby is only playing indoors; otherwise, audiences might well be so uplifted they'd float away.
9. Sometimes, even early in the year, you know a particular movie will wind up on your top 10 list.
10. Has an energetic zeal that is hard for even the most jaded, seen-it-all audience member to resist for very long.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Inspiring, compassionate, and with a sly undercurrent of social commentary, Bend It Like Beckham is a lively feel-good movie that genuinely charms.
1. An authentically spirited popcorn movie.
2. Coyote Ugly is a howler.
3. You wish that nearly everything but the two main characters had been scraped and replaced with a new and much improved script.
4. Gina Wendkos' screenplay manages to make "Flashdance" seem plot-heavy by comparison. ...we see the lovely faces of Perabo, Miko and Moynahan and the swinging hips and stomping feet of three anonymous dance doubles.
5. Solamente es recomendable ver en uno de esos días en los que no hay absolutamente nada que hacer. Para dar pena ajena.
6. As slick and mindless as one might expect...
7. There were certain aspects that I loved.... It had to do with hot, sexy women dancing on a bar in a wet T-shirt contest.
8. Sexist, shallow and silly. Teens+.
9. The cast fleshes out the cliches exuberantly and with little irony, which is something of a relief.
10. A movie about a bunch of effortlessly attractive, empty-headed people who manage to constantly have fun at even the most menial of jobs . . . give me some reason to care!
Consensus: Well, the women in this film are incredibly attractive and flaunt that fact quite a lot. Unfortunatly, that's all there is to the film. The script is almost as big a joke as the charactors, and everything else follows the same path. If you're looking for a tease then see this flick, otherwise stay as far away as possible.
Q: 1. Just because something has been done before doesn't mean it can't be done again, and well. 'The Express' is formula-driven entertainment of an uncommonly high order.
2. As a sports non-fan, my definition of a good sports film is one that my dad and I both enjoy. The Express has the goods.
3. Maybe the real Ernie Davis really was this perfect, but the movie plays as if the filmmakers didn't want to offend his family.
4. A far more intelligent movie than the ads might make it seem.
5. The player, coach and even the wise grandfather figure played by Charles S. Dutton have at least one more dimension than the typical sports-movie stereotypes.
6. Performances help hold the movie together -- Brown is solid, Quaid's natural charm takes the edge off Schwartzwalder's recalcitrance, and Omar Benson Miller chips in another charming supporting turn as Davis' best friend.
7. There's a reason Hollywood keeps making versions of this movie: They work.
8. No matter what the very capable actors do to shake up the characters, they stubbornly remain types.
9. ...patently dishonest about a few things.
10. Consider that a virtue in a movie content to teach familiar messages without overstating them.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: This inspirational sports biopic set in the the civil rights era is interesting even for non-football fans, and features a great performance by Dennis Quaid as tough-but-fair football coach.
1. A crass, often ridiculously misguided period drama that spells everything out in nice, big block letters so even a small child could comprehend it.
2. A cheap bauble of a flick.
3. Jeanne is no fun at all.
4. ... takes a fascinating footnote and reduces it to a mediocre and fitfully entertaining film.
5. Swank's honest mistake is in trying to be worthy of a project that's beneath her.
6. I felt as if I was at an Yves St. Laurent fashion show and the actors were modeling the latest in 18th-century fashions.
7. ...what really sinks the film is its script...
8. Much of the dramatic juice and intrigue have been drained out of this old-fashioned costume drama, that in the hands of director Charles Shyer and actress Hilary Swank becomes stiff, stuffy, and banal affair.
9. [Swank's] out of her league here and her tendency to underplay -- as if she were afraid of the material and didn't want to risk anything flamboyant or bold -- makes her performance seem tentative, half-felt.
10. The kind of movie made bearable only by uttering snide comments to a friend.
Consensus: A film about court intrigue, The Affair of the Necklace turns out to be more dull than juicy. Swank seems flat and miscast in the central role of Jeanne.
Q: 1. In Mr. Bridges' hands [his role] becomes the occasion for a sweetly affecting characterization -- a fine showcase for the actor's blend of grace, precision and seemingly offhanded charm.
2. As science fiction, it's decent enough, but it finds its real power as a weird, offbeat romance. Bridges has rarely been better.
3. Provides an opportunity for us to look afresh at ourselves and to ponder what it means to be children of the Universe.
4. One of John Carpenter's best films.
5. Sweet, smart and wonderfully acted.
6. Starman is more of a love story than a sci-fi movie. Take your girlfriend.
7. The best special effects are in the first five minutes. Thereafter, it's all rather predictable.
8. Early Jeff Bridges starrer is fun sci-fi.
9. An enjoyable film filled with the kind of sensitivity, love, and humor seldom seen on today's screens.
10. It isn't pleasant to watch a talented filmmaker like John Carpenter willfully distort his personality to fit a commercial (read Spielbergian) profile, and only the opening suspense-horror sequences have the weight of real involvement.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: What initially begins as sci-fi transforms into a surprisingly sweet, offbeat drama, courtesy of John Carpenter's careful direction.