Q: 1. Stunning.
2. Turning into a twisted pretzel, House of Sand and Fog becomes a melodrama straining to make its point.
3. ... a movie about the perils of real estate speculation.
4. Perelman ... has a distinct and shadowy style that gives each scene an edge of menace, but he does not exploit style or draw attention to it.
5. Partially successful.
6. House of Sand and Fog is an intense, thought- provoking movie experience
7. Devastatingly dark and painfully honest, it paints a different side of the immigrant experience while showcasing two phenomenal performances.
8. Connelly, who has often mistaken posing for acting, digs deep here; Aghdashloo ... gives us a portrait of a woman who is both dutiful to her husband and ravaged by his iron will. Kingsley is most impressive of all.
9. Who would think a fight over real estate would be so fascinating, so gut wrenching to watch?
10. A pesar de los excesos del libreto, la película atrapa gracias a la notable dirección de Perelman, apoyada sobre todo en la impecable fotografía de Roger Deakins (...)
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Powerful and thought provoking film.
1. For all of its intelligence and speculative power, the film is still about a real human being with real emotions.
2. A brilliant and daring film that blends charming comedy, affecting drama, thought-provoking satire and even a touch of biblical parable.
3. This is a film that can stay with one for a very long time after a viewing, and even slightly change the way one looks at life and the world.
4. This is a smart, engaging movie.
5. A stunningly original, deeply disturbing, surrealistic nightmare of a film the likes of which I haven't seen in a long time. [SPOILER!]
6. In real life, most of us agree the Truman Burbank reality would never be allowed. Yet we probably wouldn't deny that some day, the way things are going, a variation on it just might occur.
7. Carrey turns Truman into a postmodern Capra hero.
8. The biggest star here is director Weir in this bold and beautiful tour de force.
9. A deliciously vicious and intelligent satire. Jim Carrey is great as the man caught in the middle and Ed Harris is suitably evil as his tormentor.
10. Weir presents The Truman Show as a fairy tale, not an Orwellian nightmare
Consensus: A funny, tender, and thought-provoking film, The Truman Show is all the more noteworthy for its remarkably prescient vision of runaway celebrity culture and a nation with an insatiable thirst for the private details of ordinary lives.
Q: 1. There's both a structural randomness and predictablility to 'Chicken Little,' which has no personality or original idea driving it.
2. The undercooked Chicken Little is a strain of cinematic salmonella, riddled with forced fun and forgettable characters.
3. Chicken Little will automatically cluck gleefully for its youthful audience. But for others, this bland bird will take time to roast.
4. By the time the sky really does start 'falling' -- courtesy of an alien invasion -- Chicken Little's frantic efforts to stay farm fresh have started to wear on the nerves.
5. Despite the aspirations of its scrappy hero, it does not stand out among the recent crop of computer-animated features. But it fits in just fine.
6. It's one of the most geekily enchanting things about Chicken Little, how it blends storybook sweetness... with kew-wel science-fiction notions...
7. Apparently, it has significant entertainment value for the intended demographic.
8. Unfortunately, this levity is paired with a truly painful father-son relationship.
9. The film is fine for kiddies who'll get a kick out of all the animal characters farting, burping and falling over each other.
10. The 3-D screenings add little to the experience and feel more like an afterthought than a technological innovation.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: In its first non-Pixar CGI venture, Disney expends more effort in the technical presentation than in crafting an original storyline.
1. Stigmata is possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism.
2. the picture had it's moments, I had my share of chills and as I said ... good point.
3. How several good actors got talked into this movie is a mystery.
4. Ludicrous plot and even worse dialogue!
5. An entertaining and eerie adventure!
6. Pone el dedo en la llaga al cuestionar a los líderes religiosos católicos
7. I don't see the story as an anti-religious film, as much as I saw it as a challenge to having one way of looking at religion.
8. Got a sweet humanistic spiritual message wrapped into its broader themes of bloodletting.
9. Worth a look, even if you walk away a bit offended by the viscera and blasphemy it depicts.
10. A more bone-chilling experience is trying to solve the mystery of whether Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, as the Vatican priest trying to save her, and Nia Long, as the best friend on stand-by, needed to be in a hit this badly.
Consensus: The story is unconvincing and the acting is weak.
Q: 1. It's too bad that the requirements of plotting require movies like this to crank up the event count, when actually what works is just the daily minutiae of Bernadette's life.
2. The year's one clear candidate for future cult status.
3. This is a road movie with a difference.
4. You may have Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive' rattling through your head for a few days, but that's a small price to pay for an audience with true royalty.
5. For sheer camp value, Priscilla is a lot of fun, even if it has next to nothing to say.
6. Bernadette -- formerly Ralph -- turns out to be an excellent role for Stamp.
7. It's often very funny, looks great and is played to perfection.
8. You'll never look at The Matrix the same way again.
9. The film builds an enormously affectionate tribute to a band of outsiders.
10. The casting of the film was a stroke of genius.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: While its premise is ripe for comedy -- and it certainly delivers its fair share of laughs -- Priscilla is also a surprisingly tender and thoughtful road movie with some outstanding performances.