1. The life of Antwone Fisher may indeed be one that cries out for a movie treatment but you wouldn't know it from this tepid bio.
2. It works. I laughed, I cried, I left the theater with a bounce in my step.
3. It's no surprise that as a director Washington demands and receives excellent performances, from himself and from newcomer Derek Luke.
4. Even Howard Stern and Eminem showed more humility in creating their onscreen portrayals than Fisher does.
5. A stunning achievement for actor/director Denzel Washington.
6. ...an extremely touching story
7. This is the sort of noble, well-produced tearjerker that's bound to work for some people, but one that lacks any real force, conviction or even a single surprise.
8. Yet another year-end, by-the-numbers, button-pushing biopic, but this one is sub-par even when compared to its sickly, tired brethren. It's a dime-a-dozen film that's being touted as a hit simply because it's Denzel Washington's directorial debut.
9. ...a triumphant, three-way debut.
10. Hard, endearing, caring, warm. Bring tissues.
Consensus: Washington's directing debut is a solidly crafted, emotionally touching work.
Q: 1. By the end, you'll want to stick around, if only to crack the Jim Carrey code: Is he a real actor after all, or is the rabid urgency with which he keeps trying to be the most real thing about him?
2. I'll give the filmmakers this: They had me calculating the instances 23 appears in my own life. Trust me, it helps pass the time until the closing credits.
3. Visually stylish and dramatically moribund, The Number 23 is a half-baked idea posing as profundity.
4. This review's opening sentence, the really dull, pointless one that you are reading at this very moment, is comprised of exactly 23 words.
5. Carrey is effectively sinister, the visuals are often amazing, but there's less to this murky psycho-thriller than meets the eye.
6. What kills 23 are any number of bad choices that render the movie tone-deaf, sometimes hilariously so.
7. If you kept at it, you could probably think of 23 other similar movies you'd rather be watching.
8. Pages turn, knives plunge, rain patters and the camera rarely holds steady. No amount of quick cuts and twitchy shots, however, can compensate for the lack of narrative momentum.
9. That I got so much enjoyment from the movie's flamboyant style made the inanity of the plot all the more irritating.
10. There are more than 23 reasons why Joel Schumacher's The Number 23 is not very good; but in keeping with the theme, I'll stick to the titular sum:
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Jim Carrey has been sharp in a number of non-comedic roles, but this lurid, overheated, and self-serious potboiler is not one of them. The Number 23 is clumsy, unengaging, and mostly confusing.
1. It's a sticky-suave erotic portrait of a man swaggering his way to the bottom of the proverbial barrel.
2. There's a sad, compulsive, edge-of-the-abyss desperation to Nick Nolte's intuitive and informed performance...
3. This is a movie for which you want to give an award to the casting director, Susie Figgis.
4. We came, we saw, we forgot. Plenty of smoke but no fire in 'The Good Thief'
5. With his haggard good looks and bearish presence, Nolte is the main event in this colorful three-ring circus of a heist picture.
6. [Nolte] could not be cast more perfectly.
7. A stunning intro for a Georgian (Russia) beauty whose tantalizing assuredness is a major contribution to the movie. Men will swoon (and write rhapsodically) for this engaging seductress...
8. The South of France has rarely looked so grim and inviting as it does in Neil Jordan's new film, The Good Thief.
9. If director Neil Jordan was going for criminal cool, he hit the jackpot with The Good Thief.
10. Jordan has made a film that is both traditional enough to hold those moviegoers who don't catch its kickiness, and cinematic enough to hook those in thrall of 'camera art.'
Consensus: Bolstered by Nolte's strong performance, The Good Thief brims with seductive style.
Q: 1. Scene by scene, the movie is clunky and laughable, but it's certainly never dull.
2. If Liam Neeson is now typecast as an aging action hero, he would be better off finding better scripts.
3. Collet-Serra generates plenty of suspense and keeps the action flowing. There is even, of all things, an imaginative car chase.
4. If this all sounds rather like déjŕ vu, then consider yourself one step ahead of the game.
5. So extensive is Unknown's pilfering of ideas from existing films that it has left itself exposed as a meagre mishmash that fails to excel in any particular department.
6. As action thrillers go Unknown is not a bad one, and it has real ambitions to character and theme ... on the other hand it's not quite a good one either as the filmmakers can never quite decide what time of film they want to make.
7. A nifty final twist, but it is so joyless and heavy-handed I found it impossible to like.
8. This is fun for an hour before plumbing hitherto unknown depths of silliness.
9. Unravelling the jigsaw clues is a lot of fun, while the changes rung during the familiar ticking-bomb countdown finale marks Collet-Serra as a genuinely gifted genre specialist.
10. What's so great about the casting of Aidan Quinn is that he's like Neeson's shorter, less charming, less attractive, bitter stand-in. It's like a coup for all those neglected stand-ins who we only see from behind in wigs and oversized clothing.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Liam Neeson elevates the proceedings considerably, but Unknown is ultimately too derivative -- and implausible -- to take advantage of its intriguing premise.
1. A powerfully bleak family drama that leaves its characters' offenses largely offscreen but lingers with agonizing, drawn-out deliberation on the consequences.
2. It is accomplished, but overdetermined. Its dramatic force can't its equal its visual impact, resulting in a clear indication of where Ceylan's strengths as a director lie.
3. It's certainly worth catching.
4. Those willing to think for themselves, not in a rush for the dénouement and appreciate cinematographic narrative techniques will surely savour nearly every frame of director/co-writer Nuri Bilge Ceylan's ... exceptionally crafted tale of crime, corruption
5. Patience will be required to appreciate this brilliant, gorgeously visual film.
6. Three Monkeys, could be reduced to a simple moral - never do a dodgy politician a favour - though its layering of ironies and wrong turnings render it more subtly disturbing than that précis might suggest.
7. This is a fascinating transitional film from an intriguing director at the top of his game.
8. A grim, slow-burning exploration of guilt, grief and murder that keeps the audience at arm's length through its cold, intermittently misanthropic, vision of humanity but which is filled with ravishing images and a powerfully brooding atmosphere.
9. This is a fascinating film that, once seen, is hard to dislodge from your imagination.
10. A subtly persuasive drama steeped in a strangely beautiful pallor, thanks to superb HD cinematography.

Consensus: Exploring the effects of a family's dealings with an underhanded politician, this crime drama avoids showing the violent outcomes of its characters' misdeeds, resulting in a lingeringly potent film.