question: The Intern doesn't do enough with its timely premise, but benefits from the unorthodox chemistry of its talented leads.

numbered reviews: 1. There's not much here story-wise. But when Meyers wants to write an involving scene with characters thinking and feeling the way humans think and feel, you want to applaud.
2. A nice little film that is peppered with several mild laughs.
3. The Intern is a throwback comedy to the filmmaker's early work such as Baby Boom and Father of the Bride: sweet, uncomplicated, and overly earnest.
4. Meyers continues to be like baseball sabermetrics in cinematic form: Maybe never a home-run hitter, but someone who's patient and gets on base over and over and over again.
5. De Niro and Hathaway's characters grow ever closer in their relationship, and even end up literally "in bed" together. But it's not what it sounds like.
6. The Intern is an insubstantial Nancy Meyers comedy kept afloat by Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway's screen chemistry.
7. The Intern is feel-good cinema with something to say, but still doesn't want its viewers to feel bad about anything.
8. The movie wants to believe that you can manage the perfect career and family life - that humanity doesn't need to be sacrificed for capitalism - and because we like these characters so much, we do, too.
9. The potential for this film to fall apart due to a saccharine script or overacting was high, but Meyers and her cast never let that happen.
10. I found Meyers' script charming and delightful. Plus the added charisma of De Niro and Hathaway on screen helps to keep "The Intern" from getting stupid.


question: A crowd-pleasing tribute to the magic of silent cinema, The Artist is a clever, joyous film with delightful performances and visual style to spare.

numbered reviews: 1. As frothy, upbeat tales of old Hollywood go, it's superb, full of small delights and general sunshine.
2. A good, but not great film, it's plot seemingly derived from well-known films about films made back in the 1950s such as 'Singin' in the Rain'.
3. If you want to see some spectacularly adorable if not particularly lasting or memorable dog tricks, The Artist is the film you've been waiting for.
4. Hazanavicius has woven together a variety of cinematic styles from different eras to make a silent film that is easily accessible to a contemporary audience.
5. Its appeal lies in its innate ability of tapping into that sense of joy that lies within us all. It is irresistibly charming. It is unmissable.
6. Everything about The Artist is unique, from its beautiful black and white images as it pays tribute to the silent movies of the 1920s to the casting choices and the resolution
7. It's easy to be captivated by this unique, universal piece that above all makes us care for its characters as we journey through a maze of emotions
8. Artist a lovingly rendered homage.
9. What The Artist says about people who would like to sentimentalize and suspend the film industry in a bell jar is brilliant.
10. The Artist, as calculated as you know it is, is simply impossible to resist.


question: Mafioso begins as an amusing farce and skillfully transforms into a portentous social drama.

numbered reviews: 1. A magnificent film almost no one knows about, this hidden classic offers a wider variety of pleasures than most contemporary works can even aspire to.
2. Uproariously delightful... Mafioso isn't a straight black satire of Sicilian culture so much as a suspenseful near-tragedy leavened by the zesty, irreverent wit that helped define the golden age of Italian comedies.
3. It's another bygone classic that's as fresh today as it was 45 years ago ...
4. Mafioso may be 45 years old, but it's as bracingly relevant as anything else in theaters today. Even in the heat of a dry Sicilian summer, the film looks fresh as a lemon tree. And when you bite down hard, it's just as bitter.
5. If you crossed Meet the Parents with The Godfather and filmed it 45 years ago in Italian, you might come close to Mafioso, a black-and-white gem from 1962 whose appearance in local theaters is inexplicable but most welcome.
6. The sort of masterpiece that will obliterate memories of lesser, later efforts in the 'meeting the parents' comedy lineage. Brilliant.
7. The film ripens in an unanticipated way, nimbly shifting from near farce to something quite a bit darker.
8. This is brilliant, subtle acting. And Lattuada's filmmaking matches it, with his blend of neo-realism and easy theatricality. He doesn't waste a shot.
9. The black American offers a brief, sharp bit of tragicomic business that only appears unrelated to Nino's dire plot. He has no idea who he is, and even when he finds out, he's committed to silence.
10. Mafioso is one of those quirky little films that grow on you as time goes by. Wonderfully shot in black and white by Armando Nannuzzi, whimsically played by Sordi and Bengell, Mafioso will remind you again why you like movies.


question: Heartfelt and quirky, though at times broad, Muriel's Wedding mixes awkward comedy, oddball Australian characters, and a nostalgia-heavy soundtrack.

numbered reviews:
1. Great little film, well worth finding.
2. Writer-director PJ Hogan has some unexpected twists in store before his quirky farce reaches its uplifting conclusion.
3. There's poignant drama in this brash, sometimes overstated film, and Muriel's transformation is truly touching.
4. Toni Collette gives an incredible performance - plus, there's a great use of Abba music.
5. Toni Collette gives a wonderful performance.
6. It stars the somewhat homely Toni Collette as Muriel, whose whole purpose in life is to get married. How she does that and what happens after that are a couple of the many delightful surprises in this film.
7. Ultimately, the comedy here is grounded in self-hatred, hostility, and despair.
8. So overrated. 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' for the nineties.
9. There are some funny and inventive sequences here, but for the most part Muriel's Wedding is disappointingly simplistic and cliched.
10. The film's good heart keeps it from ever making fun of Muriel, although there are moments that must have been tempting.