1. A Wall Street version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' in which the weak are whisked aside and the alpha dogs stick around long enough to fill their pockets with millions of other people's money.
2. Gets the little details right, the way everyone is one bad week away from being homeless, the way you can have a conversation with a colleague with the cleaning lady standing in between you and no one will ever even acknowledge that she's there.
3. A well-told and credible look at the economic collapse from the perspective of one company's employees.
4. Margin Call is Wall Street for now. That a sexy Gordon Gekko-type villain is no longer anywhere to be found shows just how much worse things really are today.
5. At times, the film becomes just a series of static, over-determined conversations held in lofty offices and gleaming toilets.
6. Wily humor and sly observations about the lives of these high rollers are the highlights... It's when those give way to issues of morality that the film disappoints, just a little...
7. Maybe the financial collapse went down something like this...
8. In Margin Call, first time writer-director JC Chandor creates a humanizing insight into the lives of the bankers who discovered the fall of the economy.
9. Es casi imposible identificarse con alguno de los personajes. Y el director y guionista lo sabe, por eso dota a su ópera prima de una tensión propia de un thriller, y de una mirada cínica y desencantada.
10. Margin Call can't beat the street, missing the mark in a major way given the massive expectations.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Smart, tightly wound, and solidly acted, Margin Call turns the convoluted financial meltdown of '08 into gripping, thought-provoking drama.

1. A charming, inventive, ambitious, surreal mess.
2. Un spectacle extravagant dont męme les quelques imperfections respirent la grandeur d'un cinéaste qui se trouve toujours en pleine possession de ses moyens.
3. A sweet, charming, stylish movie that reflects well on the magnificent career of Michel Gondry
4. Instinctively and ecstatically captures the freeflowing, stream-of-association nature of the cluttered unconscious mind.
5. Suffers from weak character development and mashed plot continuity, but offers a handfull of beautiful, fresh imagery to make up for it.
6. THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP has some magical moments, butjust as the protagonist struggles with finding a place that can integrate his dream life with reality, the movie fights against itself and eventually leaves the audience as the loser.
7. Although it has its moments to delight the eye, in the end the movie is neither very cerebral nor very charming but more like weird and wayward.
8. I'm not sure I would have recommended it in the theater %u2013 where you're paying full ticket price and therefore expect a cohesive experience %u2013 but on DVD it's worth a look.
9. Credit should be shared with the leads; together they're silly, giddy, irrepressibly inventive - a lot like the film itself.
10. It suffers occasionally from self-consciousness and over-indulgence in its own oddity, but Gondry's grasp of emotion and visuals is enchanting. Even if he seems several sandwiches short of a picnic.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Lovely and diffuse, Sleep isn't as immediately absorbing as Gondry's previous work, but its messy beauty is its own reward.

1. A subtle, spooky movie with teeth becomes a subtlety-bashing war movie.
2. Scene to scene, encounter to encounter, its tension builds unrelentingly. So, fasten your seat belts. It`s a blast.
3. The first of these movies remains one of the great sci-fi horror achievements of the modern cinema, but its sequel, "Aliens," is that rare instance where a follow-up deviates from the formula and finds an effective rhythm in propelling the story
4. [Aliens] is a spectacular example of state-of-the-art science fiction simply because it never tries to be overtly spectacular.
5. It's blaster action, not Gothic future-horror. Fortunately, director-screenwriter James Cameron has shaped his film around the defiant intelligence and sensual athleticism of Weaver, and that's where Aliens works best.
6. The idea behind Aliens remains the scariest, dirtiest, most perversely funny one for a monster film, and the Rambo action further gooses us.
7. The result is a film that not only answers many questions raised by the original story, but also expands production values, amplifies special effects and weaves a new plot that is even more exciting than the first.
8. This film is also the best monster movie of the year and the best picture of any kind to open so far this summer. Put it another way: Aliens is the Jaws of the '80s.
9. Surpassing its predecessor in terms of sheer spectacle, this sequel to Ridley Scott's outer-space nightmare from director James Cameron is an outstanding science-fiction thriller.
10. So much for the theory that sequels never equal the original.
What is the critic consensus?
A: While Alien was a marvel of slow-building, atmospheric tension, Aliens packs a much more visceral punch, and features a typically strong performance from Sigourney Weaver.

1. Shaun's dark journey into an English heartland where ultra-right, National Front thugs successfully tap into the growing alienation of working-class youth is a frighteningly accurate depiction of the seductive power of hate.
2. This is England is a vile exercise in nihilism that goes nowhere fast.
3. Even if the story is misty in its didacticism: No matter how tough the times, just say no to racism and hatred.
4. It's only a half-great film, which is to say that its best moments are more perceptive and powerful than any other movie this summer.
5. Like all of Shane Meadows' work to date, his latest captures the simple pleasures of hanging out with a big group of friends, laughing at nothing. And it shows how easily that camaraderie can shade into hooliganism.
6. Strong performances and powerful sense of time and place are almost enough to make a convincing argument for spending 98 minutes squirming with dread.
7. It's a thoroughly exhaustive, hand-wringing emotional stick of provincial dynamite that viciously grabs the audience by the collar and drags them through the gummy muck of lives gone horribly wrong.
8. explosive
9. The best British film of the year. You'll be floored.
10. It's part western, part pornographic money shot.
What is the critic consensus?
A:
A moving coming-of-age tale that captures the despair among England's working-class youth in the 1980s.