1. An electrifying time-travel thriller worthy of comparison to THE TERMINATOR.
2. Spectacular. Packed with intelligence and feeling. The year's most excitingly original movie.
3. The smartest movie of the year and the best action movie of the year.
4. A mishmash of futuristic conventions and clichés cobbled together as something we have never quite seen before.
5. A disappointment from an ingenious and intelligent filmmaker
6. An outlandish vision of the near-future which may defy credibility but is bracingly entertaining.
7. Looper is a classic piece of sci-fi cinema, riddled with brilliant ideas, a complex and satisfying narrative and, most importantly, a heartbeat.
8. There's a bit of Twelve Monkeys, more than a dash of Terminator 2.
9. Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is one of the year's best films... a huge jump forward for a filmmaker whose first two films both exhibited a strong, clear voice.
10. Nothing quite excites and disturbs us as the prospect of time travel. Looper exploits that tension for all its worth.
Consensus: As thought-provoking as it is thrilling, Looper delivers an uncommonly smart, bravely original blend of futuristic sci-fi and good old-fashioned action.
1. Should have stayed in the funny pages.
2. A ground-breaking and striking comic-based movie, though the villains are too easily vanquished
3. Summer hasn't officially arrived yet, but it's unlikely to offer a big-budget commercial movie as thoroughly entertaining as this stylish real-life cartoon.
4. No other movie ever made looks like this. ...But the design doesn't overwhelm the actors. Director Beatty knows how to bring out the brightest in his cast...
5. This has an appealing two-dimensional comic-book look, but lacks the vision to go with it, not to mention an interesting hero or a feeling for action.
6. In sheer visual terms, this is the most convincing of the comic book movies that have been popular for the last decade or so.
7. A spectacular movie whose technical achievements -- notably the sharp editing -- will surely provide a gauge by which subsequent comic strip films are judged.
8. One of the most entertaining and creative event movies of the Reagan-era
9. This is a unique movie experience, well conceived and executed.
10. Lame and tedious comic book film. Try THE SHADOW or THE ROCKETEER instead.
Consensus: Dick Tracy is stylish, unique, and an undeniable technical triumph, but it ultimately struggles to rise above its two-dimensional artificiality.
1. I've Loved You So Long is a heart-rending movie that takes the audience by surprise.
2. A haunting and redemptive film experience.
3. Locked into a scheme of formal rigor and peek-a-boo screenwriting, the film is too busy calling attention to its own cleverness to allow any room for emotional connection.
4. If this movie is as patient, delicate, and introspective as it pretends, what to make of all the bludgeoning, obvious tactics that keep serving to remind us of its impeccable tact?
5. It's certainly a good film, but its merits seem relatively inconsequential next to the knockout performance by its lead, Scott Thomas ... who uses minimal expressions to convey so much.
6. Without Kristin Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long would be a watchable but hardly a memorable movie.
7. I've Loved You So Long is a love letter to family. It's an homage to the restorative power of love. It's a gift of forgiveness.
8. An uneven new French film that plays like a companion piece to the recent British drama Boy A.
9. Like a good book, I've Loved You So Long unfolds in chapters. And when it ends, you close the cover with emotion and reluctance.
10. Anchored by Kristin Scott Thomas' searing, downright engrossing performance...

Consensus: I've Loved You So Long is a sublimely acted family drama as well as a noteworthy directorial debut from Phillipe Claudel.