question: Rango is a smart, giddily creative burst of beautifully animated entertainment, and Johnny Depp gives a colorful vocal performance as a household pet in an unfamiliar world.

numbered reviews: 1. It is not a coincidence that the mayor (Ned Beatty) sounds like the evil John Huston character from Chinatown as the film makes an obvious nod toward that film classic.
2. Though young children may enjoy it, the film is built for viewers of any age with a taste for joyful anarchy.
3. There is never a doubt Rango will succeed by film's end, but the movie does have its charms.
4. A welcome change from formula as it travels on tangents that vary from the crazed to the surreal
5. Already the best animated movie of 2011, Rango is a must-watch for anybody with a brain, a heart or a functioning pair of eyes.
6. Boasts a richer, stranger cinematic flavor than anything in Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean movies
7. Quick-witted animated Western spoof gets plenty mileage out of good writing, a grand sense of fun, and the voice of Johnny Depp.
8. Channeling spaghetti westerns, Cervantes, Castaneda, and a dash of CHINATOWN as refracted through the visual sensibilities of Dali, it is a fiendishly clever concretion of high- and low-brow in a story that is both vision quest and farce
9. Sergio Leone meets 'The Shakiest Gun in the West' in this odd movie about a chameleon who -- credit the filmmakers for their cleverness -- doesn't blend in.
10. Rango a dynamic tribute to a lost genre.


question: The strong female cast and biting satire of teenage life makes Ginger Snaps far more memorable than your average werewolf movie -- or teen flick.

numbered reviews: 1. [The] script is full of inventions so felicitous that you can only wonder why no one ever thought of them before.
2. Canada. Werewolves. It's the smartest and funniest scary movie in a long time -- and a true feminist horror film.
3. John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps cleverly links lycanthropy to vaginal flow.
4. The funniest werewolf movie since "An American Werewolf in London" and the darkest high-school movie since "Heathers."
5. It deserves a cult following among satire-loving, feminist-minded gore aficionados who appreciate a well-made human tail.
6. It's altogether devilishly cunning.
7. This grisly werewolf film is actually a black comedy about a teen girl encountering menstruation. Yes, really.
8. A stunning teen angst/werewolf film from 2001, this was the best lycanthrope movie since An American Werewolf in London.
9. Successfully operates on dual levels -- as a horror movie and as a study of two sisters.
10. Very, very violent horror flick.


question: Snakes on a Plane lives up to its title, featuring snakes on a plane. It isn't perfect, but then again, it doesn't need to be.

numbered reviews: 1. Snakes was the best instantly disposable cinematic event I've attended since Bride of Chucky was launched on an unsuspecting world eight years ago.
2. This kind of film should be like a porno: Don't even bother trying to come up with a plot, just cut to the money shot.
3. ...mostly delivers what the title promises and the anticipation hoped for...mostly.
4. Put simply, this is quite possibly the most fun you'll have in the cinema all year. If you like the title, you'll love the film. Highly recommended.
5. Imagine if you will that a monstrous, CGI-sized jumbo python has squeezed together Airport and Alligator. What you'd then have is Snakes on a Plane.
6. The movie isn't just mediocre -- it's profoundly mediocre.
7. Snakes on a Plane has an irresistible title and an impressive promotional campaign -- but pitches aren't plots, and marketing isn't moviemaking.
8. Pretty fun and takes advantage of its goofy premise in every way it can ... [but] I really don't envy the position this movie found itself in.
9. The movie plays to every expectation the viewer might have -- the more absurd, the better. In this regard, it doesn't miss a trick.
10. This repitilian horror thriller is the stuff of which nightmares are made.


question: The relentless immaturity of the humor is not a total handicap for this film, which features the consistently well-matched talents of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.

numbered reviews:
1. Step Brothers is hit-and-miss, but it made me wish that the usual American comedy of 'how stupid can we get?' had this much rage.
2. Step Brothers immediately dirties its sitcom-ready path with humor that's largely filthy and occasionally flat-out weird.
3. Totally bereft of humor, an insult to the intelligence of anyone over the age of reason, reprehensibly crude, this is worse than stupid.
4. Though its comedy is nearly as undisciplined and juvenile as its heroes, Step Brothers generates a fair number of laughs. Surprises? Not so much.
5. When did comedies get so mean? Step Brothers has a premise that might have produced a good time at the movies, but when I left, I felt a little unclean.
6. Ticking away just beneath Step Brothers' freely associative surface is a fairly astute commentary on how we define such abstract concepts as 'growing up' and 'making something of yourself.'
7. Nudie magazines, dog poop, words like 'mangina' -- if these are a few of your favorite things, Step Brothers is the comedy for you.
8. Ferrell and Reilly get more mileage out of juvenile pouting and bickering than any other performers I can imagine, but that's about as far as this goes.
9. This one's strictly for Ferrell, McKay, and Reilly -- and for those of us who really, really like them.
10. ...not as inspired as Talladega Nights, but it has its own deranged sense of glee.