question: A frightening tale of Satanism and pregnancy that is even more disturbing than it sounds thanks to convincing and committed performances by Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon.

numbered reviews: 1. Rosemary's Baby (1968) is Polish director Roman Polanski's first American film and his second, scary horror film - following his first disturbing film
2. A horror classic that is as fresh and relevant as when it was released
3. It remains a masterpiece of droll humor and inbred horror.
4. Horror fans shouldn't expect a high amount of on screen gross out material because the horror primarily happens within. Often that's the best kind.
5. ...the humor in no way minimizes the film's ability to frighten and unnerve us.
6. It should establish Mia Farrow as an actress of stature and Roman Polanski as a name which will be remembered.
7. Flawlessly constructed "slow-burn" horror tale
8. Weird obstetricians, mysterious night noises and even Farrow's improvised stroll into actual oncoming traffic add up to a bustling nightmare that's spawned many a Black Swan since.
9. Having escaped the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust in Poland by the skin of his teeth, Mr. Polanski was well equipped psychologically to re-imagine what was, before Rosemary's Baby, a B-picture genre into an A-picture genre.
10. Polanski worked with an elegant restraint that less talented filmmakers have been trying to mimic ever since.


question: Despite the chemistry of its stars, Guess Who, a loose remake of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, lacks the political relevance of the original.

numbered reviews: 1. I'm not opposed to drawing from the well of movies past. But to remake one with such a dated and specific point of view, one that relies on the interracial relationship as hot button, is both lazy and uncomfortably nostalgic.
2. Sad though it is to say, it's not often that a romantic comedy comes along that succeeds in actually being both romantic and comedic. When those things happen, it's easy to forgive minor flaws.
3. No classic, but Mac and Kutcher prove a surprisingly winning team, and considering today's comedies, you could do a lot worse.
4. Guess Who isn't very smart and it isn't very funny. In fact, it isn't much of anything.
5. One long race joke, the most overextended and least risible of the year.
6. No one does choleric better than Bernie Mac and it is always fun to see him get steamed.
7. It's been a long time since the words 'Ashton Kutcher' and 'hilarious' have appeared in the same sentence, but they'll have to get reacquainted. Kutcher and costar Bernie Mac make a terrific comic team.
8. Mix in a pair of inspired performances by Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher, and you've got a certified crowd-tickler with a lot more substance than the last Focker family gathering.
9. Guess Who is a pleasant surprise. Ashton Kutcher's at his most endearing and Bernie Mac is the best he's been in a feature film.
10. Wait a sec, are those sirens? *BAD IDEA POLICE HERE, PULL OVER!


question: While it features outstanding musical numbers, The Gospel reduces a series of worthy themes -- faith, family, forgiveness -- to soapy, banal clichés.

numbered reviews: 1. I loved the music and I admired its good intentions. But there are just too many sub-professional touches for me to recommend the film.
2. While the script and editing are flawed, The Gospel is still an evening's entertainment with heart and soul.
3. "Wesley say and it shall be," pronounces Wesley (Omar Gooding) in The Gospel.
4. . . .the movie never reaches the promised land.
5. The lord may work in mysterious ways, but they shouldn't include bad acting and hack direction.
6. Here's a dramatic version of a familiar story with a contemporary spin and fantastic music.
7. The whole thing smacks of an overpopulated 'daytime drama.'
8. It's a rich portrait of a church in transition.
9. A banal, artless, cliché-ridden fiction.
10. If the choppy screenplay could have been tightly scripted, there would have been something more convincing to forcefully sing about regarding this divine but disjointed ditty


question: Great performances from the leads can't save this factory mill tearjerker.

numbered reviews:
1. A lab-engineered weepie!
2. Columbus' awkward direction randomly maneuvers the audience's emotions from grieving to giddy.
3. There ain't no filmmaking gesture low enough for Stepmom.
4. You won't be able to suspend your disbelief, but you will need extra tissues.
5. Manipulative drivel whose main purpose is to supply an outlet for product placements!
6. The movie's patronizing smugness, an often ham-handed script credited to five different screenwriters and at least one major performance that's not quite in sync, seem to hamper all the good intentions.
7. It's a film that takes valid, complex family dynamics regarding divorce, remarriage, and parenting and reduces it all to bitchy catfighting, obvious button-pushing, and tawdry clichés.
8. The most impressive thing about it is that the actors manage to sound so earnest while mouthing the most shameless cliches imaginable!
9. The movie is well-intentioned and appealing, but it can't stay emotionally honest for 20 minutes at a stretch.
10. Cheap melodrama!