question: Equilibrium is a reheated mishmash of other sci-fi movies.

numbered reviews: 1. ... Equilibrium is one of the better action/sci-fi movies of the year ...
2. If you were disappointed by recent sci-fi actioners like Terminator 3, then you'd probably be pleasantly surprised by this underappreciated movie . . .
3. It only adds unneeded celluloid to an increasingly tired genre!
4. C'est un film qui rivalise avec les plus gros blockbusters hollywoodiens. Je l'ai trouvй beaucoup plus satisfaisant que The Matrix Reloaded.
5. Who knew that a reunion of Metroland stars Bale and Watson could yield something so downright nutty?
6. An engaging ride, with some quicksilver moves.
7. Violent post-nuclear sci-fi is Orwellian.
8. Channels the themes of George Orwell and the action of John Woo wonderfully.
9. The fun here is not so much in the solid if stolid performances from Bale and co-stars Taye Diggs and Emily Watson ... or in Wimmer's overpolished plot devices as it is in the production values.
10. Wimmer delivers the already labored story with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.


question: Capturing its stars and director at their finest, It Happened One Night remains unsurpassed by the countless romantic comedies it has inspired.

numbered reviews: 1. Instead of attempting a journalistic study of bus-travel, regularly punctuated by comic touches, Director Frank Capra and Robert Riskin who adapted Samuel Hopkins Adams' story, fused the two.
2. An old school classic.
3. As classy and charming a romantic comedy as you're ever likely to see...
4. Both stars loathed the experience yet turned in two of their most enduring performances.
5. A screwball comedy with charm and sass it established a template that countless films have followed down the decades.
6. It Happened One Night is pure delight.
7. Among the more gratifying phenomena of the current season has been the growing recognition of It Happened One Night, the Frank Capra production of last year, as one of the few potential classics of the recent cinema.
8. Still one of the best screwball comedies.
9. It Happened One Night is a good piece of fiction, which, with all its feverish stunts, is blessed with bright dialogue and a good quota of relatively restrained scenes.
10. It Happened One Night (1934) is one of the greatest romantic comedies in film history, and a film that has endured in popularity. It is considered one of the pioneering


question: Its languid pace and willfully understated narrative may test the patience of some viewers, but Bradley Rust Gray's gentle direction and a gripping performance from Zoe Kazan lend The Exploding Girl an appealing, melancholy beauty.

numbered reviews: 1. Restless audiences may itch for more plot, for the kind of fiery dramatics that typify young love in the movies, but hold the explosives: There's tender drama, too, in the possibilities of a hand-hold.
2. "The Exploding Girl" can be grouped with those dreaded "mumblecore" movies in which young people talk endlessly about their romantic entanglements and attend terrible parties.
3. The Exploding Girl is a film about the deceptiveness of surfaces, and it takes place in a small town that you eventually realize with a start is actually New York City.
4. At least director Bradley Rust Grey contains all this diverting dithering in 80 minutes -- even without an explosion, there's intrigue in watching a short fuse burn.
5. ...a mildly watchable showcase for Kazan's undeniably impressive performance.
6. Bradley Rust Gray's film of a young college student (Zoe Kazan) home for the summer is a portrait in interlude.
7. Kazan has a power of her own that is as strong as or stronger than the film's style, and she can carry a scene all by herself, even if the camera is merely watching her walk down the street.
8. Kazan has a gift for letting you see her think, even when she's perfectly still; the film's title refers to the ferocious trauma happening between Ivy's ears and her silent struggle to keep it in check.
9. This is a mature story about the lives of two young people (and one voice) that kept my attention from start to finish.
10. ...a lovely, languorous film that does much with little and leaves you feeling like you've witnessed some minor miracle.


question: Its ending is disappointingly tidy, but Boiler Room boasts just enough sharp writing and brisk pacing to make getting there worthwhile.

numbered reviews:
1. During the movie I was wound up with tension and involvement.
2. In moviemaking, as in cold-calling, sometimes conviction is almost enough.
3. A compelling movie-going experience.
4. Boiler Room reflects the sensibility of the generation it holds up to critical scrutiny, and it's a cunningly ambiguous act of self-portraiture.
5. Vin Diesel, who plays senior broker Chris Varick, is a hulking actor with a menacing screen presence and a cavernous bass voice. Watch this guy, he's going places.
6. Interesante retrato del estado al que ha llegado el sistema político conocido como capitalismo
7. The tension and pacing of Boiler Room are fast and exciting, like in a good thriller, and the setting is exotic and original.
8. Intriguing ... but the film is too busy being hip and preachy to notice the irony.
9. Ribisi, such a promising supporting actor in Saving Private Ryan as a medic and Friends as Phoebe's dopey brother, doesn't seem a big enough presence for a starring role yet.
10. The efforts of one unhappy young man to win the love of his father.