Q: 1. In a field of films about drugs, car chases, and plastic monsters, Dead Poets Society is a good choice.
2. The best stories and performances, one of the greatest films of the 1980s and a rare classic that should be treasured.
3. Solid, smart entertainment.
4. The film makes us, the audience, take a long hard look at what inspires us, what governs our motivations and determines our actions. It emotes feelings rarely felt in the movies these days.
5. Not the worst of the countless recent movies about good kids and hidebound, authoritatian older people. It may, however, be the most shameless in its attempt to pander to an adolescent audience.
6. Celebrates nonconformity and freethinking as an adventure worthy of emulation  not your usual movie theme these days.
7. As consistent and nearly as understated a performance as Robin Williams would give later in Good Will Hunting.
8. Weir infuses the film with his customary mysticism, but more importantly, draws sensitive performances from his largely inexperienced cast.
9. Tom Schulman's heartfelt script takes the main character's relationships with Keating above and beyond the usual student-teacher connection.
10. Part of what makes Dead Poet's Society so great is that it challenges you to think. It can inspire you to be more than a simple cog in a wheel.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Affecting performances from the young cast and a genuinely inspirational turn from Robin Williams grant Peter Weir's prep school drama top honors.
1. One of the most remarkable Iranian films to surface in the last few years, About Elly is a small but compelling ensemble piece of surprising depth.
2. Farhadi constructs a taut story, as precariously balanced on luck and lies as that of a French farce, and then lets it spring holes before our eyes.
3. Rarely have layers of truth been so expertly peeled away than in About Elly, a drama from the Oscar-winning director of A Separation.
4. This superb, suspenseful film ... opens as a playful comedy of vacationing couples and awkward romance, one that might be set in the French countryside, but by the end has become a moral drama likely to corrode your certainties.
5. There is a mastery of tone here that shows a great director completely at home with his characters.
6. If it can be a touch too narratively byzantine and heavy-handed, it's still a quietly devastating throwback to the classics of drama.
7. A drama about guilt and responsibility set against the backdrop of male domination in Iranian society that even affects the secular and well-educated milieu depicted in this gripping drama.
8. You begin to wonder to what extent the film is a critique of an entire society in which the disparity between tradition and modernity is irreconcilable.
9. It's further confirmation of Farhadi's peerless skills as a dramatist, with a special talent for drawing prismatic meaning from simple premises.
10. As with director Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning "A Separation," this new film lets truth slowly be revealed through mystery - and after a shocking incident.
Consensus: About Elly offers viewers performances as powerful as its thought-provoking ideas, and adds another strong entry to Asghar Farhadi's impressive filmography.
Q: 1. Though it comes off as a rather familiar and superficial story of a rocker's rise and fall, it has enough style-- and...intensity--to compensate for its paucity of substance.
2. The dull, obvious ending doesn't quite erase the successes of the first half, but it's a close one.
3. Control honors its subject's eternal self-doubt by honing in on that truth and leaving the legend to others.
4. Control is that rare greatest-hits package that makes you want to go back and explore a band's entire discography, and moreover, that razes the cliches and renders their history as new, fresh and interesting as when it originally happened.
5. A tragic and overtly personal story about an ultra-sensitive artist of the 70s who finds his instincts push him beyond his comfort zone, and where guilt overtaxes his innate sense of decency.
6. Credit the filmmakers for not mythologizing Curtis. However, he just might be a bigger enigma after watching Control.
7. Methodical and cool, this film is more artful sonnet than fanzine rave.
8. Cinematographer Martin Ruhe's stunning black and white photography recalls the early Beatles days, Stuart Sutcliffe's doomed artist reborn in the post punk era.
9. Though it follows the usual biopic formula, Corbijn's stark, black-and-white widescreen visual scheme restores some of the story's real power.
10. Corbijin understands the essentials of the story. He succeeds, with Riley's help, in exhuming a flesh-and-blood person from the myth that Ian Curtis has become.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Control is a work of art, thanks to its evocative black and white cinematography and sensational performances from Sam Riley and Samantha Morton. Even those not familiar with Joy Division can still appreciate the beauty of the film.
Q: 1. A film with the same off-center invention and wild energy as the original.
2. It's fun stuff -- crackling, playfully escapist summer fare that doesn't make you feel taken advantage of later.
3. You've got your chases, you've got your explosions, you've got your destruction of property and death of innocent bystanders -- all this and bonding too.
4. One of the finest examples of the genre, and, in my humble estimation, one of the greatest sequels put to film. Perhaps deranged hyperbole, but rarely does a follow-up outgun the original film as swiftly as Lethal 2 does.
5. Sequel adds Joe Pesci to the buddy cop formula.
6. Pesci's terrific comic performance really gooses the proceedings, but the film also works because of its exciting action content, the presence of Patsy Kensit as Riggs' love interest, and the series-best interplay between the two lead characters.
7. I've confused a lot of the good things I remember about the first film with good stuff that in actuality happened in the second.
8. Loaded with the usual elements, Lethal Weapon 2 benefits from a consistency of tone that was lacking in the first film.
9. Probably the best film in the series to date.
10. Returning director Richard Donner seems to have smoothed over the few stylistic rough edges remaining from the earlier film to deliver here two hours of pure, breathless, high-impact entertainment.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Lethal Weapon 2 may sport a thin plot typical of action fare, but its combination of humor and adrenaline, along with the chemistry between its leads, make this a playful, entertaining sequel.