Q: 1. Takes the other side of the bullied high-school outcast story and shows us a teen who discovers the fun of belonging.
2. Stephen Chbosky's script is insightful about the exhilaration of soul-piercing first love, and the misery of being swept into a relationship with someone who's forceful, determined and utterly wrong for you.
3. Chbosky plays this CW serial stuff for maximum earnestness, stressing the teenage tendency to assume that every new thing they're feeling is unprecedented in human history, keeping the tone just-moist-eyed throughout.
4. If [it] doesn't explore any new territory, it covers familiar ground engagingly, and sometimes touchingly.
5. It deserves to be regarded as a modern classic.
6. It has a sense of timelessness.
7. One of the truest coming-of-age films in recent memory.
8. The most pleasant and accomplished surprise of the year, a delightful, sweet, funny, and moving examination of teenage life that merits comparison to John Hughes and Cameron Crowe.
9. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" finds an unexpectedly moving freshness in the old clichés by remaining attentive to the nuances of what happens within and between unhappy teenagers.
10. As a director, Chbosky mirrors his central character's emotional state.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a heartfelt and sincere adaptation that's bolstered by strong lead performances.
1. Howard slowly escalates the tension to an unexpected but deeply satisfying pay-off, and the film's final scenes demonstrate yet again that he is one of the few mainstream directors who can make dramatic symbolism work on a big canvas.
2. The true dilemma of this misguided seriocomedy lies in the filmmakers' confusion as to whether they're making a side-splitting bromance (nope) or an unsparing, warts-and-all look at screwed-up relationships (sort of).
3. Even though The Dilemma fails as a whole, there's enough ethical brain teasing and character-based conflict to warrant an unenthusiastic recommendation.
4. "The Dilemma" is never dull, but it's also a mess.
5. Suffers from the mistaken impression that it's a comedy. Instead, it's merely a template for comedy, handed to a group of people who obviously had no idea what to do with it.
6. The latest comedy to explore the ethics of male friendships, The Dilemma relies on the enthusiastic performances of its unique cast to see it through.
7. The problem is that, like its primary characters, the film itself is emotionally damaged, trying too hard to be likeable and coming across too serious and dysfunctional for its own good.
8. A dark spirit pervades this Vince Vaughn/Kevin James buddy movie that stifles laughter.
9. The Dilemma is quite enjoyable until its characters stop behaving like rational adults and start acting like they've just realised they've got a film to finish.
10. It deals with a serious issue of problems in a marriage, but it does so in such an ignorant, clumsy, sophomoric way with a sexist point of view that it loses any value, either morally or in terms of entertainment.
Consensus: It boasts a likable cast and an interesting premise, but The Dilemma can't decide what to do with them; the result is an uneven blend of cheesy slapstick and surprisingly dark comedy.
Q: 1. This would be passable enough fare for a throwaway comedy had the two stars bothered to bring their A-game.
2. Phillips squeezes a lot of comedy juice from the odd couple pairing and, even with a few flat moments, the film shows a remarkable ability to keep hitting its sweet spot.
3. The actors are fine: It's their long, arduous trek that lets the movie down.
4. The ride in Due Date is not only the usual raucous escapade, with car crashes and run-ins with authorities, but also takes a turn toward what might be called Peter's dark side.
5. With a strange sense of 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles', but missing the magic, this one would be a great buddy film!
6. As an overall journey, the movie disappoints, but as a collection of scenes, it's funnier than most comedies. When Todd Phillips' picture slows down, its character-driven moments are usually a winning mixture of the absurd, insensitive and poignant.
7. The initial setup is a bit of a stretch and the ending feels unfinished but most of the stuff in between - bog standard as it is - works pretty well.
8. It's bad enough that it took four screenwriters to ineptly rehash Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but it's even worse that they've only managed to come up with one new joke each.
9. Todd Phillip's lack of restraint in The Hangover brought a wild, yet funny energy. Unfortunately, that same approach makes Due Date a chaotic, humourless mess.
10. I Think the Movie Lost me When Robert Downey Jr punched out a ten-year old.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Shamelessly derivative and only sporadically funny, Due Date doesn't live up to the possibilities suggested by its talented director and marvelously mismatched stars.
Q: 1. You can see what they are striving for, but Georgia Rule is so artificial, it feels like more of a flow chart than a slice of life.
2. No wonder Lindsay Lohan got scolded for missing work during this production; I'd also try to stay away as long as I could from a project that's this confused.
3. Georgia Rule stars Jane Fonda in the story of what her life would be like if Lindsay Lohan were her granddaughter. Here's a hint: It would suck.
4. Georgia Rule veers back and forth awkwardly between humour and drama, getting both wrong. The various family secrets and plot twisties in the tale are painfully, psych 101 obvious.
5. Not to excuse her apparent lack of professionalism, but can you blame Lohan for showing up to work in bad shape?
6. If there is a 'What Were They Thinking?' Hall of Shame, there's a whole wall preserved for Georgia Rule, a feel-good, mothers-and-daughters comedy about child sexual abuse.
7. There's little gussied up in this surprisingly tart mother-child-grandchild reunion picture, written by Mark Andrus.
8. Georgia Rule is not just a bad movie, it's a creepy one.
9. It's a shame Lohan's best work to date is bogged down in a film that wants to be in the same league as Terms of Endearment but is only marginally better than Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
10. Georgia Rule is a bad idea dreadfully executed -- On Golden Pond with fellatio jokes and whimsical incest melodrama and Fonda playing her dad (who, more and more, she eerily resembles).
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Comedic and dramatic in all the wrong places, Georgia Rule is a confused dramedy that wastes the talents of its fine cast.