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. It is oddly affecting, because it feels true.
2. Hoosiers contains enough pleasures to make anyone without a heart of stone put aside cynicism and root for the underdogs.
3. As rousing a male weepie as has ever been committed to film...
4. This film's very lack of surprise and sophistication accounts for a lot of its considerable charm.
5. Basketball fans will be weeping like babies.
6. a high-spirited crowdpleaser, well-performed
7. A sound -- if manipulative -- sports movie.
8. a rare example when every reason we love watching movies comes together for two hours
9. A basketball coach in a small town proves that lives can be reclaimed even if one has messed up in the past.
10. Superbly evocative, deeply stirring.
Consensus: It may adhere to the sports underdog formula, but Hoosiers has been made with such loving craft, and features such excellent performances, that it's hard to resist.
Q: 1. Suffused with clear-eyed affection for its subject and times, this is not your little brother's punk documentary.
2. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten is a film for fans -- really big fans. More-casual admirers, perhaps those whose only Strummer CD is the Clash's "London Calling," should probably stay away.
3. A remarkably well-detailed doc that proves 'Rock The Casbah' is not just that song from the cell phone commercials.
4. The end result is a documentary that feels very insider and exclusive... it's probably best suited to those who are already fans.
5. Julien Temple has assembled a complex portrait of a human being and the times in which he lived.
6. Temple's film offers a rich, detailed portrait of a commanding but idealistic Strummer against the backdrop of the do-it-yourself punk ethos of the late '70s.
7. The Future Is Unwritten does an ample job of capturing the many facets of Strummer, who was simultaneously self-effacing and and heroic, devoted and calculating, sensitive and brazen.
8. The Future Is Written is a loving testimonial to one of rock's true originals.
9. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten is that rarest of movie biographies: a warts-and-all exploration of the life and times of its subject.
10. Julian Temple has done cinematic justice to the punk humanist born John Graham Mellor.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Displaying Joe Strummer warts and all, The Future is Unwritten succeeds as both an engrossing documentary and a comprehensive examination of one of music's most legendary figures.
1. Perfect for a girl's night out.
2. Rolls over and plays dead.
3. A thoroughly conventional romantic comedy with all the usual trimmings.
4. John Cusack and Diane Lane need to put out personal ads saying, 'Must have screenplay.'
5. The makers of "Must Love Dogs" clearly have an affection towards canines but they didn't seem to even like the audience.
6. ...the first 75 minutes are sophomoric, foolish, unrealistic, unfunny, and contrived, if not puerile, ignorant, and ill-informed.
7. Writer-director Gary David Goldberg relies so much on the predetermined beats of sitcom writing that Must Love Dogs is too stiff to qualify as lightweight.
8. a predictable and genial romantic comedy that's not very romantic and never really all that funn
9. It's hard to cheer for a film that wears a slight sneer when it comes to its leading lady.
10. Tepid sitcom romantic-comedy that's not a bow-wow but never gets out of the doghouse.
Consensus: Despite good work from its likable leads, the romantic comedy Must Love Dogs is too predictable.
Q: 1. One of the year's very best independents.
2. It's a dynamic debut for first-time writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes and a provocative showcase for a gifted young cast.
3. Not since Deliverance has such an innocent, lazy trip down a river turned out so bad. Here the actors make a journey from youth to adulthood and it's a rough ride.
4. Directed with a naked naturalism in a rural Oregon setting, it's so earnest it hurts.
5. Never preachy, never sanctimonious nor touchy-feely, Mean Creek looks at what a social worker would likely call the roots and the legacy of abuse.
6. Through the vast land mass of the teen movie, Mean Creek flows with intelligent purpose and thematic passion, at least until it doesn't.
7. [P]ainfully raw... pulls no punches, makes no apologies or excuses...
8. Estes's film casts prismatic light on the persistent issues of bullying, youth violence, and their mortal and emotional consequences.
9. Story of six kids in crisis may not be anything new, but it is remarkably good.
10. Really captures the mix of innocence and experience that adolescence has to offer.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Mean Creek is an uncomfortably riveting glimpse into the casual cruelty of youth.
Q: 1. The movie's scares are intense, but the notion that the Terminator would move on to politics is even more frightening.
2. Arguably among the very best science-fiction contemporaries.
3. This was the film that demonstrated to the dubious everyone that the musclebound fellow with that outrageous accent might be more than just another passing blip on our pop culture radar screens.
4. Relentlessly entertaining
5. As a souvenir of a kind of B-grade action cinema that has all but vanished, The Terminator should find a small place in the heart of every movie addict.
6. Gritty, clever, breathlessly paced, and dynamic despite the dark shadow of doom cast over the story, this sci-fi thriller remains one of the defining American films of the 1980s.
7. More than enough violence to make it a profoundly moral film; and Arnold's a whizz.
8. A sci-fi actioner as relentless as its cyborg title character. The megabudget sequels are very good, but the low-budget original is still the best.
9. This is a monster movie, and the monster's role fits Mr. Schwarzenegger just fine.
10. At the end of both movies, I find myself overcome by an extraordinary swell of emotion.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: With its impressive action sequences, taut economic direction, and relentlessly fast pace, it's clear why The Terminator continues to be an influence on sci-fi and action flicks.