1. Peosay appears to have taken the Dalai Lama's non-violent philosophy to heart. Rather than rage, his film radiates sadness over a singular way of life in danger of imminent obliteration.
2. Part political thriller, part National Geographic travelogue, Tom Peosay's documentary is a distressing look at China's 50-year repression of the people of Tibet.
3. Each revelation seems more disturbing than the next.
4. ...a damning indictment of one of the world's dirtiest open secrets.
5. A sobering examination of a land in turmoil and a people that have faced what former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Jeanne Kirkpatrick cites as 20 years of ethnic cleansing.
6. Haunting documentary.
7. A colorful but grimly efficient documentary about a culture under siege.
8. So thorough is the cinematic journalism that you'll swiftly forget what a challenge it must have been to document or simulate all of the key moments in a story that spans thousands of years of history.
9. A passionate work of advocacy documentary.
10. Makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of a people that the world must never be allowed to forget, no matter how much their oppressors would prefer us to do just that.
Consensus: Makes no effort to do more than present one side of its story, but does it so passionately and persuasively that the viewer almost cannot help but be moved.
Q: 1. Sadly, much like an SNL sketch, Mean Girls starts off sharp and juicy, then runs out of gas halfway through.
2. High school girls are "mean" but not in the biting "SNL" way you expect
3. Steers toward familiar teen-movie hyperbole, but it's the way the girls plot their sabotage while doling out empty compliments that keeps things real.
4. There's a precision and an uncanny sense of insider knowledge at work that causes Mean Girls to be very funny and a startlingly perceptive look at life in high school.
5. Mean Girls" is a rich and raunchy laugh riot.
6. High school social hierarchy gets a bright and funny treatment.
7. I sense the movie is payback time for Fey: She's just as bitchy as the Plastics are, and at least the Plastics don't push their rivals in front of trucks.
8. Mean Girls dips itself into the acidity of the 1989 cult favorite Heathers just long enough to give this smart teen comedy a delicious bite.
9. Not as consistently funny as 'Heathers' or corrosive as 'Election,' but usually hilarious and occasionally chilling in its observations of 'Girl World.'
10. Perhaps the meanness of the girls at Evanstown HS reflects the maliciousness of the U.S. presidential campaign!
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Funnier and more smartly written than the average teen comedy.
1. When Ms. Sangare sings a heartbreaking lament of "a worried songbird" searching for her father, you don't need to know the language to be gripped by the force of her cry.
2. If Fleck weren't such a gracious soul chasing the spirit of Sankofa, this could have been an exercise in exploitation of Graceland-ian proportions. But that's hardly the case on his magical musical mystery tour.
3. Roll up, roll up, for Béla Fleck's harmonious heritage tour, satisfaction (more or less) guaranteed.
4. A musical adventure that follows an American banjo player to Africa where he discovers the power of music to bring people of very different cultures together.
5. Fans of world music will enjoy the vibrant and spontaneous performances gathered here.
6. It's an entertaining journey, and director Sascha Paladino injects humor and pathos into the musical sequences.
7. The movie is at least 20 minutes too long. By the time Fleck gets to the final stop, Mali, the film, directed by Sascha Paladino (a half-brother of Fleck), has worn out its welcome.
8. Musician Bela Fleck brings the banjo back to Africa, where it originated. Overall, the music is terrific and the film's intentions are good. But less would have been more.
9. It's a journey long on affecting songs and musical passages, and short on scholarship -- and that works just fine for Fleck's intentions.
10. This is an honest journey into discovery that reveals the connection music brings between cultures where commonality is not always easy to find.
Consensus: Throw Down Your Heart is an exuberant musical journey with an edge of sadness.
Q: 1. There's brilliance in there, that's undeniable -- and if you're in the right mood, that will be all you need.
2. Something that would have been a bad idea for an Off-Broadway concept show has inexplicably been turned into a bloated two hour and eleven minute movie musical.
3. A Taymor triumph. A mélange of creativity using the Beatles music to express a generation in full. The fresh interpretation of the music is perfection.
4. You could make the same movie using the music of Huey Lewis. And most likely a less embarrassing one.
5. Julie Taymor has delivered an audacious, idiosyncratic creation that plays like a riff on Hair with Fab Four cachet, stretching a thin love story across one tumultuous decade.
6. A lush, interesting mix of media - song, old-school psychedelic effects, acting & dance. It's a musical tribute to Rock's most loved British band that plays out in America.
7. Despite the film's coda, the classic All You Need Is Love, you'll need more than love--like patience and tolerance-- for Taymor's overlong (133 minutes), self-indulgent, excessively stylized musical collage, hampered by generic and banal narrative.
8. After Hair, Hairspray and the mass marketing of tie-dye, can the '60s be shrunk to fit any further? Yes, indeed.
9. Every little thing Julie Taymor does is magic.
10. Julie Taymor's love-it-or-hate-it musical is hugely ambitious but it works brilliantly, thanks to strong performances, a fantastic script, terrifically integrated songs and Taymor's inspired direction.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Psychedelic musical numbers can't mask Across the Universe's clichéd love story and uninteresting characters.
1. The great high-school comedy that spawned a thousand rip-offs.
2. The comedy captured the brutal realism of post-sexual-revolution high school life and has been imitated often, rarely equaled, and surpassed only once.
3. The movie is sublimely funny. And interesting.
4. Lacks the frenzied energy which allowed Porky's to beat all competitors in its field.
5. A brashly funny yet sensitive comedy that has become a cult favorite.
6. Was never all it was cracked up to be.
7. Sean Penn's calling never left Mr. Hand's classroom.
8. overrated
9. [Penn] sets the tone of fun for the whole movie.
10. This R-rated comedy captured the natural humor of high school life, while also addressing serious topics.

Consensus: While Fast Times at Ridgemont High features Sean Penn's legendary performance, the film endures because it accurately captured the small details of school, work, and teenage life.