Q: 1. Oranges and Sunshine is a powerful exploration and its subjects should be proud.
2. Jim Loach's feature debut presents the horrific injustice of forced child migration in a calm, measured manner.
3. 'Sunshine' a burning indictment of child abuse.
4. The sincerity of feeling is unmistakable. So's the flat-footedness of the writing.
5. A chilling tale? Not when made into a maudlin, completely predictable, mainstream narrative movie by filmmaker Jim Loach.
6. Earnest, heart-tugging, social problem drama.
7. Yet another reality-based tale of a lone crusader who takes on past injustice, but a fairly good example of this overused genre.
8. Emily Watson, who always brings a special grace to the screen, gives a multilayered performance to the role of Margaret Humphreys, who not only puts her own family dynamic at risk but finds herself physically threatened.
9. The story is a stunner, and the format, propelled by Watson's deepening investigation, gives the movie energy.
10. The result is a problem drama with more problem than drama.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Grounded in a heartwrenching fact-based story, steered by Loach's sensitive direction, and led by a powerful performance from Watson, Oranges and Sunshine sidesteps its pacing problems and occasionally clichéd screenplay.
1. The genuine classic article!
2. This is one of those movies that I loved as a kid that still holds up when I watch it now as an adult.
3. A nine-year-old Natalie Wood puts in a fine performance alongside Edmund Gwenn, who is arguably the best cinematic Santa, ever.
4. The only really good [Santa Claus movie] is this gentle, yet modern tale.
5. You want the spirit of Christmas? It's all right here.
6. A touch labored but lovable.
7. A charmer.
8. Miracle on 34th Street is a great family film that will have kids and adults cackling with glee as Kringle does his best to fight the system.
9. One of a half dozen Christmas movie classics.
10. Formulaic, but charming.
Consensus: Irrefutable proof that gentle sentimentalism can be the chief ingredient in a wonderful film, Miracle on 34th Street delivers a warm holiday message without resorting to treacle.
Q: 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.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: 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.
1. By the time this globe-hopping, movie-star-crammed disaster saga - directed with petrifying efficiency by Steven Soderbergh - comes full circle, you'll never want to touch a subway pole or elevator button or ATM again.
2. All this germ procedural offers is the sight of people behaving badly, willing to do their worst to get first dibs on a vaccine. Sadly, that's no surprise.
3. As ruthlessly effective as the malady at its cool, cool center.
4. Makes unflattering comparisons between the rampaging virus and the toxic spread of unreliable information via the Internet.
5. This may not fit any conventional definition of entertainment, but it certainly keeps your eyes on the screen.
6. the Traffic of outbreak movies
7. An absorbing, nuanced, and intelligent film about a global pandemic in which Soderbergh shows how the battle against a deadly virus draws out the best and the worst in human beings.
8. Soderbergh himself has modestly likened "Contagion" to a '70s-style, star-driven disaster film. But it's smarter than that, and a lot closer to medical thrillers like "The Andromeda Strain."
9. "Contagion" will do for hand sanitizer what "Jaws" did for shark repellent.
10. While it's fleet on its feet and steady in its tension, Contagion is an exceptionally dry-eyed movie about mass death, interested more in how the structures we've built to keep order deal with the disaster than how people handle it emotionally.
Consensus: Tense, tightly plotted, and bolstered by a stellar cast, Contagion is an exceptionally smart -- and scary -- disaster movie.
Q: 1. The film maintains an optimistic tone without succumbing to nostalgia, and as always with Studio Ghibli, the company Miyazaki cofounded in the 80s, the hand-drawn animation is gorgeous.
2. The film has charm but overall is a little slight.
3. Inspiring, romantic coming-of-age tale about '60s teens.
4. it's a gem of classical 2D imagery that stands out in a world turned upside down by the digital revolution.
5. The jury's still out on whether Goro Miyazaki can sustain his father's legacy as storyteller, though with its beautiful visuals and songs, Poppy Hill finds a deserving, if modest, place among its Studio Ghibli peers.
6. Those gorgeous, hand-drawn images bring lightness and grace to a story that might seem drab and pedestrian in the real world.
7. Soft, warm animation and resonant reflections on death, moving on and growing up can't fully overcome slighter plot points and erratic music choices.
8. The artistry is peaceful and comforting to the eyes but not especially stirring. Given the pictorial extremes that Studio Ghibli has gone to in the past, "Up on Poppy Hill" is weak tea.
9. "From Up on Poppy Hill" is frankly stunning, as beautiful a hand-drawn animated feature as you are likely to see.
10. The charming and nostalgic "From Up on Poppy Hill" is as lushly illustrated and vividly realized as memory itself.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: Gentle and nostalgic, From Up on Poppy Hill is one of Studio Ghibli's sweeter efforts -- and if it doesn't push the boundaries of the genre, it remains as engagingly lovely as Ghibli fans have come to expect.