Q: 1. Beautifully told and wonderfully performed.
2. The spirits of Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone are invoked in this horribly brutal outback western, directed by John Hillcoat and scripted by Nick Cave.
3. This Down Under horse opera is violent, grim and stunningly good.
4. Brutal, bloody and brilliant, this is superior filmmaking, and more evidence of the renaissance of the Australian film industry.
5. An ensemble cast of pure talent in a visceral story of frontier justice and the pursuit of it.
6. The Proposition is an epic drama on a grand scope.
7. For people who like their Westerns with brains.
8. Here is an unpretentious movie for those who are willing to take a film for its surfaces...and want to forget themselves for a while.
9. Hillcoat tries to make the film work with blood, death, degradation and loud music. In the end, it's just too nihilistic and self-conscious to be convincing or involving.
10. It's a savagely entertaining look at the nature of man.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Brutal, unflinching, and violent, but thought-provoking and with excellent performances, this Australian western is the one of the best examples of the genre to come along in recent times.
1. The actors all find the correct notes. It is a French film, and so they are allowed to be adult and intelligent.
2. It's a quiet but heartfelt film that has a lot to say about the allure of the past and the inevitability of change.
3. You won't find filmmaking more assured, commanding and evocative than that of Summer Hours in its opening scenes.
4. A sweet pearl of a French film, Summer Hours may work as a perfect antidote for those seeking refuge from the summer blockbuster season.
5. The texture and flow of Summer Hours, the supple quality of the acting, the fluid camerawork isolating this or that observer while life flows on and domestic crises ebb and flow -- it all comes together as formidably detailed and easy-breathing cra
6. If this enjoyable film is substantially more satisfying than those predecessors, it's also far less daring, a straightforward extended-family drama in the mode of last year's (more engrossing) art-house highlight A Christmas Tale.
7. It is certainly a success, thanks in large part to the lovely performances from the three leads.
8. Quietly and keenly observed.
9. Berling, Binoche and Renier all play off each other effortlessly, and Summer Hours makes you feel comfortable spending time with their family, too.
10. One realizes the real dramatic conflict is between the past, which must be honored, and the present, which must be lived.
Consensus: Olivier Assayas' contemplative family drama handles lofty ideas about art and culture with elegance and lightness.
Q: 1. Disappointing, but diverting; I was expecting the man-eating hammerhead, but not the lecture on 'moral relativism' from the local sheriff.
2. Most lacking is any sense of humor or style in a film that aspires to mediocrity and achieves it all too easily.
3. [Leaves] you with nothing more than a few poke-y moments and wistful memories of Piranha 3D.
4. ... a new movie genre: sharxploitation ...
5. Enjoyably trashy Jaws/Piranha rip-off, enlivened by likeable performances and some impressive 3D effects, but the plot is laugh-out-loud ridiculous and there's an oddly prudish approach to gore and nudity.
6. Little more than a brain damaged, irony-free, and curiously toothless attempt to retread the success of last year's surprising summer gorefest, Piranha 3D.
7. This is a pretty bad movie that (I think) knows it's a pretty bad movie. What keeps it from being even worse and entering into the useless 'torture porn' genre is its PG-13 rating, which teeters on the brink of 'R' territory throughout.
8. A bad taste frenzy, with cameras tied to the bellies of some beasts contained by crooks in a salt water lake.
9. How delicious would it be if we were to look back and find that the current lousy 3D trend "jumped the shark" with a film that actually features jumping sharks?
10. Look, here's the short of it: This is pretty dumb movie. Ok it's a very dumb movie.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: A joyless excursion into the water that doesn't even produce good gore or nudity thanks to the neutered PG-13 rating.
1. Hawke and Delpy keep the tone not only afloat but mesmerizing. So natural are their performances that it seems impossible not to believe they truly are soulmates who are locked in a doomed, all-too-short affair.
2. Inspired by Godard's lyrical film-essays, Linklater revisits his unreleased debut (also set on a train), while paying tribute to Rohmer's cerebral moral fables. Though narrower in scope, this film is more mature and generous than previous efforts.
3. Agreeably alluring.
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5. It's the best pick up movie ever.
6. While it's a bit awkward and self-indulgent, it also creates two extremely vivid characters and one of cinema's more believable romances.
7. A thought-provoking, likable, entertaining, beautiful, and well-acted piece of romance...
8. Acting tour de force that feels exceptionally real
9. the film asks us to consider the very nature and purpose of our existence in a fragmentary, superficial and transient universe.
10. Linklater hasn't just crafted a detached portrait of a unique couple: he's painting a masterful examination of human nature, of that relationship we all want, but too often sadly see slip away.
Consensus: Thought-provoking and beautifully filmed, Before Sunrise is an intelligent, unabashedly romantic look at modern love, led by marvelously natural performances from Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
Q: 1. Being a time-travel epic, plot holes abound here, but it's Van Damme's cute little attempt at being the family man that ruins that oh-so-necessary willing suspension of disbelief.
2. In terms of plot and direction, there are loopholes galore and too much in-your-face audience-pummeling for my taste.
3. It is fun, but it's no Terminator.
4. Only worth renting if you've got a poker game and a bottle of Jack Daniels going. View it straight and you'll be too busy rolling your eyes to keep up.
5. Van Damme is appealingly affect-less as the cop who dutifully slams a pack of baddies into the walls every third or fourth scene.
6. Years of tireless persistence have begun to work in Mr. Van Damme's favor. It's hard not to enjoy his energy, even if his acting gifts still leave a lot to be desired.
7. Those who aren't easily insulted with cliches and disregard for scientific facts might still enjoy it.
8. It's just a bit too uneven to take advantage of its strengths.
9. Maybe it's the formula, maybe it's all that time travel, but you just can't help thinking you've seen it all before.
10. Is it even praise to call a film 'one of Van Damme's better efforts'? Try calling your wife's meatloaf 'the least nauseating thing I've even all week' and see what she thinks.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: It's no Terminator, but for those willing to suspend disbelief and rational thought, Timecop provides limited sci-fi action rewards.