1. It's as if the Scarecrow and the Tin Man got lost and wandered down the Mississippi River, drinking and gambling and stumbling into and out of various troubles, not worrying about their brains or their hearts, just wishing for a little bit of luck.
2. The combination of Reynolds and Mendelsohn makes this a sure bet...
3. Boden and Fleck understand that these two characters feed off of each other's personalities, while fueling the addiction that unifies them.
4. I've never hated one of their movies. They don't elicit that kind of emotion.
5. Edging close to greatness, this is a very good -- albeit rather sad -- character study about friendship, addiction and the hope for redemption -- or the next closest thing.
6. A captivating, contemporary, sometimes comic spin on the antebellum allure of a downriver gambling odyssey - soaking in the sights of the trip and soaring on unexpectedly excellent juju of the odd-couple casting for the two low-rollers at its center.
7. The actors flaunt craft, the script lays on the folksiness with a trowel, and scenes of local color seem to come straight from a guidebook.
8. A two-handed portrait of addiction, desperation and regret that both narratively and stylistically harks back to the gritty character plays of the 1960s and early 1970s.
9. it should allow audiences to see a different side of Mendelsohn, and fully appreciate how effective Reynolds can be in the right role
10. Mississippi Grind is a filmed series of lies, bad choices, and shaky attempts to get paid, all told through the texture, the soundtrack choices, and interesting casting.
Consensus: Well-acted and steeped in Southern atmosphere, Mississippi Grind is a road movie and addiction drama that transcends each of its well-worn genres.
1. What a lovely way to spend an afternoon.
2. This modest story works because of committed performances from both actors.
3. A parochial French time-passer which waddles along amiably and then ends unforgivably.
4. A movie that parts the clouds to reveal a surprising sunniness.
5. An affable reminder that the French are just as capable of making cornball cinema as any Hollywood studio.
6. This sentimental tale of a barely literate man's awakening at the hands of an elderly bibliophile is generally as painless as it is hackneyed.
7. That so many of the colossal yokel's mental states are literalized, as when the screen fills with thousands of rats while Margueritte reads Camus's The Plague aloud to her new pal, typifies the movie's antipathy to nuance.
8. It rarely rises above the pedestrian.
9. This little gem is all about the nature of chance encounters and how they can change us in unexpected ways.
10. A tender and touching love story in a small French town where two unlikely people connect in an appealing and magical way.
Consensus: It's sentimental and treacly, but that's not enough to prevent My Afternoons with Margueritte from being truly affecting.
1. It's a shame that "Superman" had to leave the eighties in such a disgraceful fashion.
2. Even at 91 minutes, the film seems truncated.
3. It`s hard to summon much wonder when Superman goes mano-a-mano with Nuclear Man, a Lex Luthor creation with a static electricity problem.
4. It's hard to escape the conclusion that all the originality and excitement have been drained from the series.
5. Tthe enthusiastic hamming can't hide the clunking direction by Sidney J Furie and the sub-standard special effects.
6. Superman IV is cinematic kryptonite. Not only could it kill the Superman series, it might also leave filmgoers feeling weak.
7. Fortunately, the regular Superman performers all do their jobs well.
8. Of course, Superman saves the world, but the real news is that there's still some life in the series.
9. The overall effect is of a story atomized and dying before our eyes, collapsing into smashed pulp, ground down into big-budget Kryptonite ash.
10. The impoverishment here is not merely of means, but of spirit.

Consensus: The Superman series bottoms out here: the action is boring, the special effects look cheaper, and none of the actors appear interested in where the plot's going.