1. The Grudge, a slump-in-your-seat, would-be thriller, is a shockless shocker.
2. The archetypal haunted house story might be more effective as a campfire story which takes ten minutes to tell...as a 90-minute movie, it's a crushing bore.
3. a more successful reinterpretation than "The Ring."
4. The Grudge is a perfect Halloween feature, a frightening ghost story that will have you flinching and screaming.
5. Way beyond a good, stiff Halloween Thrill.
6. I eventually lost all patience. The movie may have some subterranean level on which the story strands connect and make sense, but it eluded me.
7. The trouble with Shimizu's impressionistic approach is that it doesn't entrench you deep enough inside anybody's head or put you far enough behind anyone's point of view for the scares to really work.
8. ... features some of the most unnerving imagery and soundscapes to be found on the screen...
9. Finally, the key to making an Americanized version of a Japanese film is revealed: Let the original director call the shots.
10. It's the ominous, mystical stuff of nightmares - a real spook-fest!
Consensus: There's some creepy imagery to be found, but not much in the way of logic or truly jarring scares.
Q: 1. Leconte seems at last to have anchored his cinematic gifts to a story worth caring about.
2. Leconte is turning hackneyed devices inside out -- and getting wonderful performances out of his actors.
3. Frankly, if it doesn't make you cry, we don't want to know you.
4. It's not badly made, but it's a drag.
5. The promise of its beautiful opening is beautifully kept.
6. Melds cushy, humanist-to-the-bone politics with a captivating, if somewhat discordant, cast.
7. An occasionally powerful and often thought provoking period piece that is characterized by strong acting and an effective visual style.
8. Granted, a heavy period drama about an impending execution doesn't sound like your typical date movie. But it doesn't get much more romantic than this.
9. Patrice Leconte offers a profound study of sincerity and hypocrisy.
10. It's an intriguing tale.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Critics are impressed with The Widow of St. Pierre's intriguing story and beautiful cinematography.
1. [Austin] Powers (coming again July 26) now has competition in pure silliness.
2. A joyful mix of high and low humor, pulled off with style and an eye for glamour.
3. One can't help but feel that either the filmmakers missed some golden opportunities or that the source material simply ran dry before the picture could run its course.
4. "It's all just an advertisement for the funkadelic soundtrack."
5. It combines relentless energy with an aura of good nature for a formula that works.
6. Like any one of a number of Saturday Night Live movies, Undercover Brother is fifteen funny minutes of material stretched thin over two hours.
7. The smartest bonehead comedy of the summer.
8. It's about keeping it funny, and on that score Undercover Brother is right on.
9. The enjoyable Undercover Brother, a zany mix of Saturday Night Live-style parody, '70s Blaxploitation films and goofball action comedy gone wild, dishes out a ton of laughs that everyone can enjoy.
10. A colorful, cool and completely hilarious ride that'll have you rolling through the outtakes.
Consensus: Fast-paced and filled with racial gags, Undercover Brother serves up plenty of laughs and sharp satire.
Q: 1. Genuine empathy and inquisitive humanity cast a spiritual cinematic spell.
2. Absolutely captivating... stimulating even though it really does seem like it ought to be sedative.
3. This is a small film. It is also a great one. "Great" is a word I don't use often.
4. Mija, at the center, is perhaps determined to not fill her remaining memories with despair, and to avoid adding to the sum of the world's misery. Maybe it's as simple as that.
5. About guilt and responsibility, about loss, about the terrible things human beings do, and the moments of serenity and spiritual succor to be gleaned from the natural world.
6. Now is the time to bestow on yourself the gift of one of the most, well, poetic films of 2010. And by "poetic," we mean rich with soulful pauses that are at once visual and aural and deeply observant of the dance of routine and quiet surprise.
7. Lee Chang-dong's perceptive drama about a woman facing the onset of Alzheimer's as well as a torrid family crisis is keenly acted but meandering.
8. Sometimes you don't fully appreciate what a movie's doing to your heart until it's been shattered.
9. Completely engrossing.
10. A captivating film, as observant and nuanced as a sonnet.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Poetry is an absorbing, poignant drama because it offers no easy answers to its complex central conflict.
1. Good cast chemistry and a wonderfully colorful 60's styled backdrop makes this retroactive romantic comedy the best madcap sex romp around so far in this hyper-techno movie year.
2. Whaddaya know -- here's a Doris Day movie starring Renée Zellweger.
3. A finger-snapping, knowingly artificial romantic comedy romp with a wink in its eye and a spring in its step... easily the most unabashedly mirthful film in ages.
4. I love this film.
5. Amazingly simple and breezy stuff but how completely and unexpectedly refreshing it is.
6. I'm not sure I can retrieve the words required to describe how colossally awful this movie is.
7. What's refreshing is that Down with Love neatly sidesteps the superior 'modern' tone that creeps into other notable recent films that depict that era -- think Auto-Focus and Catch Me If You Can.
8. Both Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger do better than expected - but nothing will ever make us forget Doris Day.
9. "There won't be a dry panty in the house!"
10. ...bubbly and cute, but instantly forgettable.
Consensus: Looks great, but Zellweger and McGregor have no chemistry together, and the self-satisfied, knowing tone grates.
1. An energetically quirky social metaphor, political commentary and action/sci-fi farce all balled up into one outrageously enjoyable experience, provided you like the work of Terry Gilliam.
2. Gilliam crams the screen with such a proliferation of bizarre and comic details that you'll want to revisit this particular nightmare again and again.
3. Inventive, prophetic black comedy; lots of violence, mayhem.
4. Brazil is this unique amalgamation of ideas straight out of Terry Gilliam's head that results in something so strange and so unique that it's just genius with a conclusion that is undeniably haunting.
5. Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape.
6. Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.
7. [A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy.
8. Influenced by Kafka, Orwell, and Kubrick, Gilliam's darkly humorous futuristic satire is narratively flawed and excessive in many ways, but it displays its creator's wildly vivid imagination and is intermittently witty.
9. Brazil -- a black comedy that remains ahead of its time -- is one of the most audacious fantasies ever made.
10. Brazil offers a chillingly hilarious vision of the near-future.

Consensus: Brazil, Terry Gilliam's visionary Orwellian fantasy, is an audacious dark comedy, filled with strange, imaginative visuals.