question: Waiting... is a gross-out comedy that is more gross than comic.

numbered reviews: 1. You'd have more fun actually working in a restaurant. Probably.
2. Some jokes hit their mark, but mostly in "Waiting%u2026," what you're really waiting for is inspiration.
3. Despite its flaws, it really is a funny, witty, and suprisingly charming slob comedy
4. For what's essentially a raucous, gross-out comedy, this is a surprisingly tame film.
5. An undercooked, overdone raunchy comedy.
6. ...a spare premise that's utilized to surprisingly positive effect...
7. Luis Guzman is especially funny as a sex-crazed head cook obsessed with a staff game that becomes a centerpiece of the film's humor.
8. It made me laugh. Out loud, a lot, and wildly, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
9. We have to watch [the cast] struggle and squirm just to make each scene not as horrible as the last.
10. McKittrick neglects to realize that his target audience (males, ages 18-25) presumably aren't interested in seeing or hearing about the male genitalia at any time...


question: It's technically impressive and loaded with eye-catching images, but without characters or a plot to support them, all of Sucker Punch's visual thrills are for naught.

numbered reviews: 1. Impressive effects, but mixed messages about women.
2. Oh, what an endless, punishing, unholy mess this film is. I would have preferred a foreign language without subtitles to the dialogue in "Sucker Punch."
3. I think Zack Snyder just thought of the craziest things he wanted to see in a movie, so he did it. That's what artists should do. Now it turns out to be some metaphorical fantasy and that's cool too.
4. Zach Snyder has attended the Michael Bay school of filmmaking and graduated the top of the class.
5. The movie is a head trip of the most awesome kind -- one I can't wait to take again.
6. where Snyder failed was in using too much to do too little, even though he had the right balance between the two in his grasp the whole time.
7. It provides sporadic seconds of splendid eye candy separated by minutes of muddled exposition and flat acting.
8. It's a film made with serious purpose and serious skill but so utterly, irredeemably geeked out on itself that you simply cannot take it seriously - not if you want to get the most out of it.
9. [A] cacophonous, half-digested mass of pop-culture influences.
10. [The] mash-up set pieces blend into so-awesome-they're-awful slo-mo monotony, and the awful sisterhood stuff in between makes you anticipate the action as though waiting for the bus.


question: Memories of Murder blends the familiar crime genre with social satire and comedy, capturing the all-too human desperation of its key characters.

numbered reviews: 1. For a film about women getting brutally attacked and dispatched, the movie has no sense of urgency or underlying dread.
2. Achieves an unlikely but ultimately successful blend of blunt-force comedy and desperate investigation.
3. The script is as sloppy as Song (Kang-ho)'s unkempt cop, sprinkled with intriguing ideas and imaginative details that, like the investigation, simply get lost in blind alleys.
4. What's most remarkable about it is the way Bong builds real suspense and plays the chilling moments straight while leaving himself room for nonsense and horseplay.
5. These are no gritty 'Dirty Harry' cops, nor are they kooky Keystone Kops. You know what they are? They're Columbo - if Columbo were the schlemiel he always pretends to be.
6. Horribly, gorily fascinating and slightly unfulfilling
7. Manages to transcend the popular and cliched genre by focusing on the emotional toll dealing with such crimes has on the detectives.
8. A refreshingly mature thriller that succeeds in its ambitious attempt to blend quips and killings.
9. Uneven movie has tonal problems.
10. Fledgling director Bong Joon-ho received the best new director award at the San Sebastian Film Festival and he shows a deft, talented hand at the helm.


question: Flawlessly cast and brimming with dark, acid wit, American Beauty is a smart, provocative high point of late '90s mainstream Hollywood film.

numbered reviews:
1. Very clever, hugely entertaining.
2. Easily one of the year's best films.
3. This cinematic rose is truly the one to pick.
4. This chronicle of suburban families imploding in slow motion contains genuine laughs, but they escape through clenched teeth.
5. American Beauty mesmerizes because every moment, however caricatured, hits a nerve in each of us.
6. Kevin Spacey's work in the movie is the best film acting that he has ever done.
7. It truly, honestly makes me see the beauty in the world, a goal not many films have achieved. In short, it gives me pause.
8. Silky, seductive and unsettling, American Beauty is an dazzling piece of movie-making, nimbly shifting from dark comedy to drama to horror to pure poetry and back again.
9. American Beauty takes its place among the best family dramas of recent decades.
10. Wildly funny and unpredictable.