Q: 1. It probably doesn't appeal to its audience's loftiest instincts, but it certainly is appealing: Watching an eminently deserving egomaniac get his comeuppance.
2. A hilarious and harrowing cautionary tale.
3. Cautionary tales about the pitfalls of indie filmmaking don't come more searingly truthful or sober-minded than Overnight.
4. It exerts a certain train-wreck fascination.
5. This documentary tells the story of Troy Duffy, a bartender in Los Angeles who became a minor celebrity when Miramax offered him $1 million for a screenplay.
6. A morbidly compelling cautionary tale about the negative side of instant sensation.
7. It's like watching a runaway train race down a mountain: We know that a crash is coming; we just don't know how many casualties there will be.
8. If you're curious, you can rent The Boondock Saints on video, without stirring the embers of Duffy's ego.
9. In their rush to give Duffy his comeuppance, the filmmakers barrel past their movie's real potential, which could have been a blistering exposé of Hollywood's bandwagon mentality.
10. The story of the neither late nor great Troy Duffy would make the perfect film-school graduation gift.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: This absorbing but wince-inducing documentary is a cautionary tale about the costs of hubris in the world of indie film.
1. A fun summer flick, but it's certainly not God's gift to comedy.
2. Often quite funny.
3. At the end of the day, Carrey is far more palatable and sincere under a devil's mask than a cardboard halo.
4. Like his early work, it's not a particularly good film -- insipidly staged, inanely plotted, too weak to withstand the weight of any inquiries into logic or continuity -- but Carrey's energetic mugging, particularly early on, makes it relatively painless.
5. When Carrey is using his power to make a pompous news anchor break wind while on air, God's in his heaven, and all's right with the world.
6. Your tolerance for Bruce will depend on the sensitivity of your cinematic sweet tooth. Sweet to one viewer is sappy to another.
7. The script became as gooey as the bounteous torso of Marlon Brando.
8. When Carrey is doing his thing as the Almighty, histrionically whipping up one miracle after another and relishing the power, Bruce has you spring-cleaning your lungs with laughter.
9. Rambunctiously funny.
10. Although the movie never quite explores all the heavenly possibilities, it does provide some wicked chuckles.
Consensus: Carrey is hilarious in the slapstick scenes, but Bruce Almighty gets bogged down in treacle.
Q: 1. Much of the film is banal or pretentious, or both -- vacuous vignettes about emptiness. Occasionally, though, those vignettes burst into life and burn with consuming fire.
2. The wisdom of Shame is that it offers no easy exit for this prison of the mind.
3. ... about as unblinkingly candid as any above-ground film now making the rounds ... Director McQueen is a talent to watch, nurture; Mulligan makes off with this film and very possibly an Oscar nomination.
4. The sexual furies that roil the movie are poundingly, startlingly graphic for a mainstream release.
5. This sleek-looking but curiously unfocused character study never quite gets down to the business of showing us who Brandon is, but boy, does Fassbender make him into a captivating enigma.
6. These characters are stripped bare in every sense, reflecting an extreme degree of inner confusion, vulnerability and fear. Betrayed and broken as children, they now have to define and rebuild themselves as adults.
7. This is a psychologically claustrophobic film that strips its characters bare literally and figuratively, leaving them, and us, nowhere to hide.
8. It's a soulless, distancing portrait set against a bland elite Manhattan universe of sleek high-rises and glamorous bars.
9. Good, but maybe not the ideal choice for a first-date movie. . .
10. "Shame" is uncompromising, no doubt, but the picture doesn't add up to as much as the viewer hopes based on the clear talent involved.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Boasting stellar performances by Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, Shame is a powerful plunge into the mania of addiction affliction.
Q: 1. The movie also hints that it's OK to be a hypocrite as long as you point out the hypocrisy of others.
2. Abramoff offers Spacey his most distinct and galvanic character since his highly entertaining take on Lex Luthor in Superman Returns
3. Great fun and strong filmmaking, encapsulating the hubris and self-aggrandizement that marked the career of uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
4. If being trapped in the dark with a pair of hopped-up con-artists... for an hour or so is your idea of fun times, then [this] might be the perfect unreality show for you.
5. Hickenlooper and Snider are wise to stage Abramoff's story as political satire, but Casino Jack gets so bogged down trying to explain everything that the jokes, when they come, have no snap.
6. The Abramoff affair reads like a Hollywood screenplay, but this feature rarely fulfills its promise. Kevin Spacey is fun to watch playing a man by turns cunning, corny and crazy.
7. Though the film is peppered with one-liners tailor-made for Spacey to sling with stinging effect, it doesn't so much leave you laughing as just weary, and wishing this weren't a true story at all.
8. Anyone who's seen Gibney's superior version will immediately be struck by how false this fictionalized account feels.
9. Spacey is the reason to see Casino Jack. This movie will stand alongside The Usual Suspects and American Beauty as examples of what the actor is capable of accomplishing when he is properly motivated.
10. [T]his year's non-fiction treatment of the Jack Abramoff story, Alex Gibney's Casino Jack and the United States of Money, crackles and engages where this docudrama falls flat.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Kevin Spacey turns in one of his stronger performances, but Casino Jack is a disappointingly uneven fictionalized account of a fascinating true story.