1. Stands there with a straight face and tells us it's an inspiring, ennobling story of dedication and triumph ... when in fact it's an utterly derivative, 100-percent-recycled, completely forgettable story of dedication and triumph.
2. The story of Akeelah's ascent to the finals of the National Spelling Bee makes an uncommonly good movie, entertaining and actually inspirational, and with a few tears along the way.
3. A Karate Kid-esque story of a intelligent girl that battles against the pressure to 'keep it real'...and wins.
4. Atchison finds a very clever and moving way in the final scene to illustrate the film's "it takes a village" message.
5. This is the kind of movie that makes a great family film. It's inspirational, moving, funny, and gives you a young hero to root for
6. Dramatically jerry-rigged in every possible way.
7. The audience for this slender effort is still in grade school with little new and different to recommend it for anyone older than, say, the age of 12.
8. Akeelah not only embodies her gift and her passion, but she also inspires new ways of thinking about intellectual activities.
9. . . . uniquely thrilling as we watch a young Black girl come alive, not through song or dance but on her own mental steam.
10. Palmer is so good. She's a charmer, bright and talented and sympathetic. And she's only 12.
Consensus: Although predictable in every way, a winning performance from its young star Keke Palmer and the rest of the cast makes it difficult not to cheer for the little heroine of Akeelah and the Bee. Sort of like Rocky for the middle school nerd set, Akeelah is a warm, family-friendly underdog story, featuring terrific supporting performances from Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett.
Q: 1. The story, spiked with gentle humor, moves smoothly through the standard tropes of Iranian art house cinema.
2. While the film incorporates a touch of neo-realism, Iranian director Majid Majidi isn't aiming for miserablism; his beautifully austere morality tale is more a sun-parched version of a different well-known story.
3. A parable of corruption, catastrophe and eventual redemption. Mr. Majidi's tale wasn't meant to be timely, of course, but the shoe fits, and the film wears it well.
4. The film is pleasingly meandering, till the more typically Majidian soulful and teary-eyed climax.
5. a greatly satisfying parable of happenstance
6. If you can look past the almost silent-era sermonizing of The Song of Sparrows, you can see something else at work here, and deeper things on view.
7. [Director] Majidi is a master director of tear-jerkers, and he proves true to form with Sparrows.
8. As unabashedly sentimental as The Song of Sparrows often becomes, this simple fable of a righteous man's relationship to his family, his community and most of all his faith has the force of conviction.
9. Another gem about spiritual renewal by the great and sensitive Iranian director Majid Majidi.
10. Majid Majidi's lyrical, gently comic The Song of Sparrows grounds its low-key humor in the realities of poor, semi-rural Iranian life.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: A heartfelt, affecting parable, The Song of Sparrows is another gem from Iranian director Majid Majidi.
1. Americans love a good villain, and in Enron chairman Kenneth Lay, former CEO Jeffrey Skilling and CFO Andrew Fastow, the movie provides a perfect storm of scoundrels.
2. It's a story of jaw-dropping chutzpah, grim, mostly hindsight-based humor and more stomach-churning drama than you could find in 10 screenplays.
3. Enron quickly settles down, cogently laying out how Ken Lay and other hot-dogging big shots sank the seventh-largest corporation in America.
4. You might expect this film to be mildly informative; coming out you'll feel you've seen the horror movie of the year.
5. An entertaining look at an extremely easy target.
6. The movie does more than entertain and enlighten you. At the end, you also realize you've been watching a classic American tale, one that we can only hope will never be repeated -- though it well might be.
7. Exploring the darker side of human behavior is compelling and entertaining, leaving in its wake an acute sense of moral outrage.
8. ...almost continuously entertaining and frequently funny...
9. Intriguing and infuriating: a civics and ethics lesson for every American citizen.
10. With all its inherent drama, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room seems ripe for feature film treatment.
Consensus: A concise, entertaining documentary about the spectacular failure of Enron.
1. Even featuring an inferior 007, On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a landmark change-of-pace, and an exhilarating and affecting piece of entertainment.
2. Driven by a series of invigorating and breathtaking action sequences and anchored by a Bond of rare emotional depth.
3. Director Peter Hunt manages to inject some life into this 1969 exercise with a wonderful ski chase, but otherwise the film is a bore.
4. Film of break-neck physical excitement and stunning visual attractions in which George Lazenby replaced Sean Connery as James Bond.
5. Artistically, Bond's sixth entry, the only one to star Aussie George Lazenby, is much better than given credit to, though commercially it was one of the weakest.
6. Essential Bond viewing. It should definitely be among the five Bond films to make someone a fan of the series.
7. Besides not being a terribly good Bond entry, it's also a poorly made film.
8. [Concentrates] more on the man than the equipment.
9. Even hobbled as he is by a character he doesn't entirely get, and Peter Hunt's antagonistic direction, and the film's annoying tendency to remind us of Connery... George azenby puts up a good fight.
10. An odd interruption in the Bond canon that's neither an unsung masterpiece nor an unmitigated disaster. It's half terrific, half terrible -the former most often when George Lazenby shuts up and Peter Hunt's masterful action instincts take over.

Consensus: George Lazenby's only appearance as 007 is a fine entry in the series, featuring one of the most intriguing Bond girls in Tracy di Vincenzo (Diana Rigg), breathtaking visuals, and some great ski chases.