Critic consensus:Forsaking narrative structure for pure visceral power, Restrepo plunges viewers into the experiences of soldiers on the front lines of the Afghan War.

Numbered reviews:1. By keeping the focus solely upon the outpost and the soldiers who lived and fought there, the co-directors effectively seal the film off from any external influence.
2. The relative formlessness of Restrepo is, in itself, a kind of dramatic structure. It reflects the stop-start waywardness of war in general, and of this war in particular.
3. The reaction of a soldier to the death of another - unvarnished, disbelieving grief so raw it's difficult to watch - is among the most moving footage of war and its cost imaginable.
4. Sebastian Junger's chronicle of a fourteen-month mission in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley isn't much of a documentary, but the undeniably harrowing footage should be required viewing.
5. The past few years have brought a lot of war documentaries, but Restrepo is the rare one that adds something new.
6. Valuable ... but misses a golden opportunity to intersect access and art.
7. After the recent avalanche of pundit-filled advocacy documentaries about health care, failing schools and environmental collapse, it's a bracing experience to be trusted to think for oneself.
8. You can't help but share the feelings, many of them subrational, that coarse through the soldiers as they live a hellish year in a hellish place. That human element transcends politics, and it is the core of this vividly immediate film.
9. Chilling in its immersion.
10. The directors push no agendas, but they also pull no punches. They show the soldiers in their bravest moments, most vulnerable and frightened moments, and even their most frighteningly bloodthirsty moments.


Critic consensus:Chasing Amy explores gender roles, sexual mores, and the limits of friendship with a mixture of sensitivity, raw honesty, and director/screenwriter Kevin Smith's signature raunchy humor.

Numbered reviews:1. Instead of cool twenty-something irony, Smith startles us with raw emotional honesty.
2. Funny, fearless... and profoundly moving. Never did I ever think I'd come away from a Smith film with a lump in my throat.
3. ...rivals a 1930s screwball comedy -- although the subject matter certainly does not.
4. tackles issues and explores situations that many other filmmakers have shied away from
5. Even when its young, uncertain characters appear to be in danger of talking (and whining) themselves to death, there's something genuine and charmingly naive about their attempts to make sense of their feelings.
6. Although [Smith's] dialogue is often witty, he still relies on blunt sexual humor to get his point across.
7. Work of such fierce intelligence and emotional honesty that it blows away the competition when it comes to contemporary romantic comedy.
8. With their matching hipster goatees and deadpan cynicism, Affleck and Lee evince the easy rapport of old buds.
9. Slowly, like a latent teen pulled against his will into adulthood, Kevin Smith is growing up. But he's not growing quietly.
10. There is a lot of frank conversation about the technical aspects of sex between women, but Holden and Banky are written more like sniggering eighth graders than inquisitive adults.


Critic consensus:You don't have to be a soccer fan to enjoy this stylish, breezy slice of 1970s sports history.

Numbered reviews:
1. This is not an exercise in fabricated nostalgia, but a raucous chronicle of defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
2. A spot-on goal.
3. Through interviews with former players, coaches, and company officials, as well as archival footage, the film traces the club's amazing rise and ultimate disintegration.
4. Another soccer film? Buy, hey, it's about a NEW YORK soccer team, glorifying the late Steve Ross, the number one corporate viper! For those who believe the world ends at the Hudson River only.
5. Lively, free-wheeling amusement.
6. A slick, gossipy documentary that pulses to the strains of James Brown, Parliament and the Love Unlimited Orchestra as it glosses over facts to make its questionable case for the Cosmos.
7. How that dream was realized and what factors brought it and its league to a horrific crash scarcely a decade later is the intriguing drama that directors Paul Crowder and John Dower are able to reconstruct.
8. An energetic and often enjoyable documentary, particularly for soccer fans.
9. Once in a Lifetime does a wonderful job of showing that this collection of foreigners playing a foreign sport forged one of the great American sports stories.
10. The movie is only so-so, borrowing a little from the VH-1 school of popumentary but lacking the snazzy production values.