Q: 1. If an iPod commercial had a nightmare, it would look like Alphaville
2. Its melding of classic Hollywood archetypes and a terrifying future was ahead of its time when it was released. Five decades later, filmmakers are still trying to catch up.
3. Karina proves to be the beating heart of the movie, getting its piercing last line (no spoilers here). Yet it's Constantine's ravaged mug that you remember.
4. Iconic in its very grain, the film toggles effortlessly between toast-dry farce and vogueing postwar hipitude, and like the balletic swimmers performing mid-pool state executions, it's a thing of insensible beauty.
5. Modern audiences may be tempted to overlook the significance of Goddard's groundbreaking vision but that doesn't detract from its powerful influence on film and pop culture.
6. It may mean absolutely nothing, but it's undeniably one interesting ride -- across universes in a Ford Galaxy.
7. Made in the most creative phase of Jean-Luc Godard's career, this sci-fi-political allegory is visually brilliant and quite riveting in its first half before the film gets too didactic in the last reel.
8. The haunting imagery and dystopian vision of Alphaville deserves comparison to Fritz Lang's Metropolis
9. Godard again shows his uncompromising, intellectual, unorthodox methods for a pic that is both piquant and sketchy.
10. The self-conscious didacticism of 'Alphaville' sinks its ship.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: While Alphaville is by no means a conventional sci-fi film, Jean-Luc Godard creates a witty, noir-ish future all his own.
1. No ironic detachment for William Dear's latest film: It may have every cliché in the book, but The Perfect Game means everything it says.
2. It's all stencil work without a single touch of novelty, inspiration or originality.
3. The Perfect Game proves that you don't always have to reach for lofty heights to work. It's certainly not a classic. It's a simple pleasure for those times when that's all you need.
4. A welcome addition to the expanding genre of baseball films.
5. It's hard not to root for an underdog, especially a relentlessly optimistic one, and the reality is Game has a lot of heart. But not much in the way of legs.
6. Packed with everything you'd want from an inspiring sports story. The pieces aren't put together as neatly as one would hope, but the film easily achieves the intended effect.
7. Notable only for being a catalog of just about every kid-pic cliche' ever committed to film.
8. The Perfect Game is an earnest tribute, but the story could have been rendered more convincingly.
9. A very slow and terrible film. This little league baseball story is so full of holes, that even diehard fans of the game would be hard pressed to sit through it. Paul Chambers, CNN.
10. This movie is what's known as family entertainment, which means in this case that it's interesting and harmless.
Consensus: It's bogged down with an unfocused script and countless sports movie cliches, but The Perfect Game still manages to charm with its unabashed sweetness and a stirring final act.
Q: 1. Good cast chemistry and a wonderfully colorful 60's styled backdrop makes this retroactive romantic comedy the best madcap sex romp around so far in this hyper-techno movie year.
2. Whaddaya know -- here's a Doris Day movie starring Renée Zellweger.
3. A finger-snapping, knowingly artificial romantic comedy romp with a wink in its eye and a spring in its step... easily the most unabashedly mirthful film in ages.
4. I love this film.
5. Amazingly simple and breezy stuff but how completely and unexpectedly refreshing it is.
6. I'm not sure I can retrieve the words required to describe how colossally awful this movie is.
7. What's refreshing is that Down with Love neatly sidesteps the superior 'modern' tone that creeps into other notable recent films that depict that era -- think Auto-Focus and Catch Me If You Can.
8. Both Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger do better than expected - but nothing will ever make us forget Doris Day.
9. "There won't be a dry panty in the house!"
10. ...bubbly and cute, but instantly forgettable.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Looks great, but Zellweger and McGregor have no chemistry together, and the self-satisfied, knowing tone grates.
1. A seminal cult classic the exact appeal of which has always eluded me, though most of the world seems to adore it.
2. The lesson it most effectively demonstrates is that cinema has the power to turn you into a kid again. As we wish.
3. 'As you wish' may be gaining on 'we'll always have Paris' as the single most romantic line ever.
4. One of Reiner's most entertaining films, effective as a swashbuckling epic, romantic fable, and satire of these genres.
5. One of the hottest cult videos of the 1980s, and a family classic besides, enjoyed by new generations of youngsters as well as their parents.
6. Based on William Goldman's novel, this is a post-modern fairy tale that challenges and affirms the conventions of a genre that may not be flexible enough to support such horseplay.
7. Rob Reiner's friendly 1987 fairy-tale adventure delicately mines the irony inherent in its make-believe without ever undermining the effectiveness of the fantasy.
8. The leads are vacuous; the absurdities sometimes forced and obvious.
9. One of the Top films of the 1980s - if not, of all time. A treasure of a film that you'll want to watch again and again
10. An effective comedy, an interesting bedtime tale, and one of the greatest date rentals of all time.
Consensus: A delightfully postmodern fairy tale, The Princess Bride is a deft, intelligent mix of swashbuckling, romance, and comedy that takes an age-old damsel-in-distress story and makes it fresh.
Q: 1. I take it as proof that Saw is half a parody of serial-killer movies... that Elwes goes stark raving bonkers off-the-deep-end awful in the film's final moments.
2. Fans of industrial music finally have a mainstream movie release that represents their zeitgeist
3. A bloody, repugnant world that will offend all but hard-core horror fans.
4. Terrifying at some moments and insinuatingly creepy at many others.
5. Dark and twisted.
6. A gratuitous, if often successfully creepy exercise in sadomasochistic filmmaking, Saw features some of the worst acting I have ever seen in a mainstream film with an experienced cast.
7. The Internet film geeks are salivating over this one. But humans who live above ground, including horror fans, will find themselves only fitfully entertained and more consistently appalled.
8. A sick, twisted, deliriously entertaining horror thriller that rivals The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for sheer, relentless intensity.
9. An ingenious machine for inducing terror, rage, and paralyzing unease.
10. So over the top that even the recruited audience of non-critics at my screening began to howl.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Saw is more than nasty enough for genre junkies, but far too twisted, gory, and shallow for more discerning horror fans.