Q: 1. An alternate and superior British version of Rounders with elements of Reindeer Games and hilariously unnecessary voiceover narration thrown in.
2. Clive Owen conveys a sharp, cynical intelligence that rolls off the screen in waves whenever he widens his glittering blue eyes.
3. The choice of Clive Owen as the star is a good one. He's got the same sort of physical reserve as Sean Connery in the Bond pictures.
4. With its fascinating, multi-layered plot, intelligent screenplay, and subtle-yet-undeniable tension building, Croupier is an engrossing, stylish thriller that never threatens to wear out its welcome.
5. Actor Clive Owen proves to be powerfully unflappable -- a working-stiff James Bond, whose understated intensity draws you into the movie and refuses to let you leave.
6. Don't let Croupier go by without a look.
7. Seldom will you see a film so well crafted, and you will likely go a long way to find performances even half this good, especially Owen's and McKee's.
8. Owen is superb.
9. Stylish but cold.
10. Croupier also offers an intriguing look at the writing process and the allure of writing, which in part is the ability to pull strings.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: The writer slumming for human truths and real experience is a common enough story, but this cool-headed and slick thriller provides a gut-churningly compelling backdrop to a look at our darker sides.
1. More silly than scary, it's the horror movie to give horror movies a bad name.
2. If you need to be really scared of the dark, you're better off making up stuff from the shadows in your own room.
3. The only scary thing about this movie would be the price of any admission to go see it.
4. The script is so derivative, so junked up with cliches, so monumentally obvious and so stupid that no one should take 'credit' for it.
5. The film revels so brazenly in genre cliches that it eventually earns admiration for boldly going where nearly everyone has gone before.
6. Anyone who caught They last November will have a real jolt of deja vu.
7. [The] plot could be written on a pinhead.
8. Darkness Falls is the perfect horror movie for those who find the Tooth Fairy scary.
9. When Darkness Falls, it pretty much trips over its own feet.
10. Sadly, the makers of Darkness Falls can't find that flair, even with a bag of high-powered flashlights.
Consensus: A derivative movie where the scares are few and things don't make much sense.
Q: 1. Zwick's sedate storytelling tone doesn't seem to be coming from the same source as his "Blood Diamond" or "The Last Samurai." Perhaps he thought he was making another "Schindler's List."
2. In trying to add a new chapter to the long history of films made about the Holocaust, Defiance can barely move a narrative muscle without bumping into another, better movie that covers some of the same ground.
3. Comes off as flat as latkes.
4. Defiance doesn't go beyond the usual tales of valor and virtue, managing to make an amazing true story feel like yet another dry history lesson.
5. A respectable shot at a Holocaust story with uplifting qualities and plump moral questioning, Defiance is a handsome production, just not an especially inspiring one.
6. Defiance is not so much a cohesive film as a series of interchangeable, broadstroked scenes--a movie on loop.
7. Not an easy movie to criticize, but here goes.
8. Undercuts its own dramatic concerns by alternating heavy-handed moralism with the style of contemporary action franchises, dulling and smoothing out the horrifying edges of murder.
9. Whatever its shortcomings, the film should be seen as a testimony to the true story of Jews who lived in a Belarus forest for years during the Holocaust.
10. As solemn as a bell toll and nearly as dull.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Professionally made but artistically uninspired, Ed Zwick's story of Jews surviving WWII in the Belarus forest lacks the emotional punch of the actual history.
1. It's that rare film that has overshadowed its own hype.
2. This movie is pure soap opera. But what a soap opera!
3. The first new Technicolor print in 37 years, digital sound and moments of digitally cleaned-up footage scattered throughout its three hours and 42 minutes all make for a gorgeous sight-and-sound experience.
4. Let us say simply that there is something in most of us that will always treasure Selznick's flair for old-fashioned, full-bodied narrative even as we pay lip service to the most anemic forms of cerebration in the modern cinema.
5. What more can one say about this much-loved, much discussed blockbuster?
6. Forget it, no Civil War film has made a nickel, producer Irving Thalberg told Louis B. Mayer about a melodrama that would break records and become a unique cultural phenom
7. Even though the habits of movie- goers have changed over the years, it's easy to see why this film provoked such an outpouring of praise and adulation during its initial release, and why its stature has grown with the passage of decades.
8. At the film's center, of course, is Leigh's strikingly sympathetic portrayal as Scarlett O'Hara, the irascible, manipulative bitch.
9. All of the drama of GWTW is successfully combined with dazzling production values.
10. Superb acting talent was followed by superb production values.
Consensus: Filmed and presented on a scale not seen in modern productions, Gone with the Wind is, if not the definitive Hollywood film, then certainly near the top of the list.
Q: 1. Gordon-Levitt's Hesher is raw destruction and aggro comedy punctuated with a blast of crunching metal.
2. Hesher finds uncommon sympathy for people at loose ends, and although Hesher himself is sentimentalized and backhandedly inspiring, he never softens into an actual role model.
3. Warts and all, "Hesher" is still a good shot in the arm.
4. Rather than a character rooted in some sort of reality -- social, satirical, psychological, take your pick -- Hesher is an abstract notion animated by false energy.
5. Bad role models sometimes make the most interesting movie characters.
6. Unlike many films that hope to be called black comedy, it does not skimp on either the black or the comedy.
7. When the blessed credits finally roll, the first thing Susser shows us is Hesher's tattoo of a raised middle finger. Backatcha, dude.
8. At a future date, when some grad student writes a thesis on 'Wild Men of the Subconscious in Popular Culture,' there will certainly be a special place for 'Hesher.' Just as long as it stays there and is never in front of my eyes again.
9. A dark, weird, and wholly unique comedy that uses a bucketful of obscenity to help the sweetness go down.
10. Beyond the fact that Hesher is a character to be despised instead of admired, Hesher is distanced from its characters and their situation in its apathy toward them.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: It has a dark sense of humor and a refreshing lack of sentimentality, but like its title character, Hesher isn't really interested in going anywhere.