Q: 1. A smart, entertaining little adventure through American history.
2. National Treasure is not so much a no-brainer as a brain-stunner, so audaciously ridiculous you are initially intrigued, then soon irritated by its incoherence.
3. Cage . . . all but sleepwalks through the film with an expression and body language that could be the result of his jockeys being just a scooch binding
4. Safe, simplistic and stylistically inert film fodder meant only for the least discerning multiplex zombies.
5. A witty comedy caper.
6. Great escapism.
7. Despite its superficiality, National Treasure is undeniably enjoyable.
8. None of this should work, but in the best Bruckheimer tradition, it does.
9. Nicolas Cage usually brims with personality, but you wouldn't know it from this pedestrian ripoff of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
10. Interminable and riddled with plot holes you could drive a humvee through.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: National Treasure is no treasure, but it's a fun ride for those who can forgive its highly improbable plot.
1. You watch it, figure out how it works, and then never have to interact with it ever again.
2. A witty, well-made addition to the [time travel] subgenre.
3. While it isn't that hard to stay a step or two ahead of Timecrimes, the movie is still a nifty little genre piece, an old-fashioned science-fiction mind-game with a healthy dollop of 'Oh, the irony.'
4. more tantalizing than satisfying
5. If only American sci-fi filmmaking was this clever and involving.
6. A grimly funny sci-fi determinist's challenge to the very idea of free will.
7. By the end, details fall into place with a minimum amount of exposition or explicit explanation, making it the best kind of action movie -- the kind that's actually about action.
8. Low-budget Spanish thriller about a guy that stumbles hours into the past and winds up trying to correct his last few mistakes can't survive its contrived plot contortions, non-characters, or "well, duh" obviousness.
9. Vigalondo's film wastes little time in foregrounding the act of seeing.
10. Even though Vigalondo's obvious direction lingers over every carefully arranged tile in the toppling-domino plot, there's still some sinister amusement in watching them stack and fall.
Consensus: Timecrimes is a low-budget thriller that's well-crafted and loaded with dark humor and bizarre twists.
Q: 1. Could a movie that mixes table tennis, spies and kung-fu action star anyone else but Christopher Walken? Probably not.
2. Just barely goofy enough to sustain its 90-minute running time.
3. While Balls of Fury is slightly more sophisticated in its comic strategies, 'slightly' remains the operative word.
4. Balls Of Fury sweeps across the screen with delightfully wacko one liners per second, locked solidly into the genius premise of ping pong as a girlie game morphed into superjock rivalry between ferocious, sweaty he-men.
5. It's never an encouraging sign when a comedy filled with talented pros produces only a single distinct laugh.
6. Someone needs to take a paddle to the filmmakers.
7. This is pretty thin soup, but the players are spirited and the jokes generally offbeat.
8. The real trouble is that it's supposed to be an outrageous comedy, but in fact it's fairly tame and not all that funny.
9. This low-level laffer seems set to bounce out of theatres in short order.
10. The surprisingly funny Balls of Fury's tagline may read, "A Huge Comedy with Tiny Balls," but it has some big, brass ones, too.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Tasteless, yet harmless, Balls of Fury nevertheless fails to generate enough laughs despite its lowbrow intentions.
1. At the heart is a breathtaking performance by South African actor Presley Chweneyagae.
2. The violence makes Tsotsi's character a little more challenging to embrace and makes the transformation tougher to achieve, but it's more rewarding in the long run.
3. This remarkable movie means to shake you, and boy does it ever.
4. The story's lame, condesending objective dictates that bringing-up-baby histrionics will melt the savage beast.
5. While some of the scenes are a bit melodramatic ... [Director] Hood does a terrific job drawing the audience into Tsotsi's world of violence, anger and, eventually, growth and maturation.
6. ...a thug-rehabilitation movie that goes to exaggerated lengths to redeem its criminal antihero.
7. What a simple and yet profound story this is.
8. Tsotsi does more than illustrate African hardships. It's a powerful appeal for us to appreciate the value of every human life, from infants to hardened of criminals.
9. If Hood's direction were anything more than blatantly cruel and crushingly obvious -- or if Chweneyagae were capable of more than one expression -- the film might have a reason for existing.
10. A mixture of thrilling documentary-style realism and Hollywood hokum, Tsotsi leaves you all but tasting the orange dust of Joburg's shantytowns and moved by the harrowing journey Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae) is forced to take.
Consensus: Chweneyagae's powerful performance carries this simple yet searing tale of a shantytown teenager's redemption.
Q: 1. This hip blend of Sherlock Holmes and Howard Hughes is an offbeat suspense comedy.
2. An intriguing character study of its protagonist disguised as a conventional comic mystery.
3. Has enough shrewd humor to keep an audience interested.
4. It is owing entirely to Kasdan's ability as a writer and his sharp and restrained style as a director that the movie comes together nicely in the end.
5. Both Mr. Pullman and the slyly restrained Mr. Stiller keep their characters entertaining even when Mr. Kasdan's interest is elsewhere.
6. The wryly intelligent, creative script serves the story, the characters and the actors well, never disappointing in ingenuity or opportunities for uncanny comic timing.
7. Not only is it hilarious, but it's a damn good detective story that has fun toying around with all the tired old conventions of the detective story
8. A charmingly off-center little film with intriguing plot twists and engaging characters.
9. A hidden gem.
10. An inspired and off-kilter crime caper that wears its infectious quirkiness like a badge of honor
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: A promising debut for writer/director Jake Kasdan, Zero Effect overcomes its flaws with its off-kilter humor and likeable leads.