Q: 1. Chronically impassive and faultlessly incurious about others, Gabrielle has been, for ten years, the perfect ornament of a social circle where 'emotion and failure are feared more than war.'
2. This is a careful and cinematic adaptation that rings with painful truth.
3. Although it is possible that French actress Isabelle Huppert makes the occasional false move, she does not make them in front of a camera.
4. Co-screenwriter/director Patrice Chereau doesn't seem in any particular hurry with the pacing. He practically dawdles, which makes the whole thing feel longer than its relatively scant running time.
5. Rewards those who stay with it...at least those who use terms like deconstruction.
6. A film that matches all too well the times it portrays, Gabrielle is claustrophobic, stifling, and not a little crusty. Saved only by its exquisitely bitter performances and immaculate design.
7. Both protagonists give elegant and moving performances.
8. A work of stunning intensity underneath opulent fabrics
9. For the most part, [Chereau] lets Huppert and Greggory provide the emotional impact. They respond accordingly, imbuing their mutual suffering with an exacting and moving finesse.
10. Most of all, we think, 'Gosh, all of these experiments make for a cold, uninvolving film.'
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Patrice Chéreau's exquisite rendering of Joseph Conrad's The Return brings underlying passions to surface in a long-suffering marriage.
1. Lo, how the mighty have fallen. Great classic film homages, though.
2. A desperately unfunny action comedy, mirthless not only in its effect on an audience but in its whole aura.
3. Except for some doubles, Chan performs his fight scenes in this film live on camera while doing his most creative choreography in years.
4. This one seemed longer than before, which might not be the best compliment to the movie, but it gets laughs.
5. One exquisite sequence has Jackie both dancing and fighting to the tune of "Singin' in the Rain." It is a wonderfully entertaining fight scene.
6. Moins réussi que l'original mais tout de męme amusant .
7. Chan and Wilson made and enjoyable team once again.
8. Shanghai Knights is a happy marriage of East and West that makes one long for Shanghai Morn, Shanghai Dawn and Shanghai Midnight.
9. Manages to entertain even as it's floating into the ether.
10. Chan delivers enough fun, eye-popping action sequences to make you overlook any plot contrivances or predictability.
Consensus: A silly, anachronistic mess, but the pairing of Chan and Wilson makes the movie fun.
Q: 1. Watching it just makes you feel wonderful.
2. Objectively I can look at it and see that is a load of sentimental hogwash, but if I relax and just watch it, it sucks me in every time.
3. Great music, great scenery, how can you not love this?
4. A classic in every sense of the word.
5. Other than The Wizard of Oz, no Hollywood musical is as familiar, reassuring, and beloved of all ages... Andrews anchors the film... her sincerity is absolute.
6. To enjoy director Robert Wise's Best Picture winner you must overlook the bloated, sugar-coated story, and even then it's an uphill slog.
7. established Julie Andrews as a major international movie star. Her radiance and energy fills the screen in scene after scene. She's absolutely magnetic...
8. Did you really think a bunch of mean old Nazis could keep the angelic Julie Andrews from spreading her music and love?
9. One of the most enduring, feel-good musicals ever made, with sing-along songs made for the entire family.
10. The septet of blond and beaming youngsters who have to act like so many Shirley Temples and Freddie Bartholomews when they were young do as well as could be expected with their assortedly artificial roles, but the adults are fairly horrendous.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Unapologetically sweet and maybe even a little corny, The Sound of Music will win over all but the most cynical filmgoers with its classic songs and irresistible warmth.
1. Anderson and Metzler collect dozens of great bits of rehearsal and performance footage as well as intimate footage between Moore and his family.
2. Even as a hagiography, though, it's pretty interesting.
3. What makes this better than the usual Behind the Music-style doc is the frankness of its subjects and the fun way the filmmakers intersperse Fat Albert-style animation to tell their story.
4. It's a much more interesting story than your usual Behind the Music arc.
5. To hear the soaring craziness of Fishbone's "Sunless Saturday" is to wonder how such musical inspiration could possibly miss.
6. It's a movie about what it's like to almost make it in the music business, but not really, not quite. It's about coming close and watching it slip away.
7. It's a hearty, thoughtful, smartly assembled, vaguely complete documentary about a rock band that, even by the standards of out-there musical acts, seemed out there both in the mid-1980s and even now.
8. A must see for Fishbone fans.
9. Everyday Sunshine is an uplifting entry that rises to its task rather than letting the music do all the talking.
10. "Everyday Sunshine" presents a raw lesson in how artistry and success often make incompatible partners.
Consensus: Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone is an entertaining, heartwarming, and balanced documentary about the influential Los Angeles band.
Q: 1. ...a somber, mournful installment of the Star Trek franchise. And when the defining trait of your series is dullness, this isn't exactly the best strategy.
2. An emotionally satisfying science fiction adventure.
3. Not bad, but the series would boldly go to better places.
4. christopher lloyd!
5. Almost certainly the best of the "bad" Star Trek films... and for the first 30 or 40 minutes, it's not really even bad, to speak of.
6. Not many Trekkies would list The Search for Spock as their first viewing choice, but it rarely lets you down.
7. These are classic directorial occasions, and Nimoy rises to them with fervor, in effect beaming his film up onto a higher pictorial plane than either of its predecessors.
8. Stirring but sad science-fiction enterprise.
9. This 1984 film's few and unimpressive special effects evidently qualify it as science fiction, but the genre it really belongs to is the male weepie: there hasn't been a gooier buddy romance on the screen since Joe Buck took Ratso Rizzo to Miami.
10. It's reasonably entertaining fare for non-fans.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Though it may be short on dazzling special effects, The Search for Spock is still a strong Star Trek installment, thanks to affecting performances by its iconic cast.
Q: 1. [It] not only lived up to the artistic and dramatic excellence of the first film, but in many ways surpassed it.
2. It's a second movie made largely out of the bits and pieces of Mr. Puzo's novel that didn't fit into the first. It's a Frankenstein's monster stitched together from leftover parts. It talks. It moves in fits and starts but it has no mind of its own.
3. Each story on its own would work better. Together, it makes it harder to get involved in any of them.
4. The corruption of Michael Corleone reaches its climax in this, the only proper conclusion to the Godfather saga.
5. A rich, fully realized epic.
6. Quite possibly the best sequel ever made...
7. One of the best sequels ever made.
8. The best sequel of all time.
9. The stunning text of The Godfather is replaced in Part II with prologues, epilogues, footnotes, and good intentions.
10. This film is yet another classic of American Cinema.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Drawing on strong performances by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, Francis Ford Coppola's continuation of Mario Puzo's Mafia saga set new standards for sequels that have yet to be matched or broken.