1. The great thing about this movie is that it works even if you don't follow or care about baseball.
2. A terrific film that makes a point about winning that is sophisticated and left me with a deep appreciation for anyone who tries to do something revolutionary and is afraid of failure but doesn't let that fear stop them.
3. A smart, subtle and quotable tale that's happy to take that familiar formula and give it frequent, unsentimental, but still satisfying, tweaks.
4. Pitt is outstanding putting his heart and soul into this Oscar-caliber performance. Hill offers comedic relief as the awkward, fish-out-of-water computer nerd. The hearty round of applause at the end of the advance screening indicates the groundswell of..
5. It should be no shock that the film is intelligent and well-made, considering the source material... What's somewhat surprising is how engrossing a story about the business side of baseball can be...
6. What is most maddening about "Moneyball" is that its Hall of Fame potential is squandered on crass sentimentality, a lack of focus and a exasperating refusal to take a hard look at the way the business of baseball is run today.
7. It's the best baseball movie since "Bull Durham."
8. "Moneyball" isn't ultimately about baseball as much as it is an exploration of those who do and don't adapt to change.
9. Coasts along the old-fashioned way: On great performances and a surprisingly engaging script
10. While the screen tells us it's 2002, the struggle to define ourselves within an economic chokehold couldn't be more on the money right now.
Consensus: Director Bennett Miller, along with Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, take a niche subject and turn it into a sharp, funny, and touching portrait worthy of baseball lore.
Q: 1. It's all just so much filler until we separate the toons from the trash and get some all-animated segments that have that old sneaky magic to them. Not to mention imagination
2. Steve Martin saves this from being truly mediocre, he's great!
3. Th-th-th-th-th-th-that's not all, folks! ... the legendary characters remain as endearingly impish as ever, providing a welcome blast of impudence ...
4. Director Joe Dante ... and screenwriter Larry Doyle have achieved the impossible: they've actually managed to drain every last ounce of irreverent wit and joyful silliness out of the classic Warner Bros. cartoon characters.
5. A fitfully funny mix of animation and live action that spoofs Hollywood without offering a story of its own.
6. Lackluster storytelling and tepid punch lines.
7. How can you hate a movie that puts Bugs Bunny in a flooded convertible and lets him say 'Hey, whaddya know -- I found Nemo!'
8. This movie, with all its hopped-up, sugar-rush action, provides plenty of fun for a young audience. And grown-ups with fond memories of Looney Tunes cartoons might find themselves giggling as well.
9. Pleasant but unoriginal.
10. A double-decker: one deck of entertainment for kids (and teens who don't scoff at kids' movies), another for the grown if not greatly more adult viewers hip to Joe Dante's game plan.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: The plot is a nonsensical, hyperactive jumble and the gags are relatively uninspired compared to the classic Looney Tunes cartoons.
1. There is a lot of half-baked soap opera wrapped around the hypnosis scenes.
2. Ultimately, the film's narrative segments are far too glossy and over-stylized, larded with ponderous scoring, obvious melodrama and split-screen visuals that offset the "reenactments" with the "real."
3. A gimmicky, inordinately self-impressed attempt to cash in on the latest tabloid buzzwords. If this was made in the '70s, it'd be narrated by Leonard Nimoy and chock-full of yetis and the Devil's Triangle.
4. I'd love to be at a screening of "The Fourth Kind" in Nome, where it's sure to be greeted as a comedy.
5. Badly acted by everyone (including the director, Olatunde Osunsanmi, who appears onscreen), this insipid jumble's idea of fright is incessant screaming.
6. In the end the film is more desultory than disturbing.
7. Mostly engaging with fleeting scares, stylish cinematography and an initially intriguing premise, but the suspense and chills wane as its script grows increasingly silly, unfocused and dull.
8. The movie begins with what is probably the most laughable opening scene of the year.
9. nothing more than a science fiction version of a Michael Moore movie. It makes wild claims that it's the utter truth, and if you go in with blinders you might like it
10. A cut-rate X-Files rehash cleverly dressed up with the trappings of supposedly "real" footage a la The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity.
Consensus: While it boasts a handful of shocks, The Fourth Kind is hokey and clumsy and makes its close encounters seem eerily mundane.
Q: 1. Offers $200 million in special effects and a script worth about 2 cents. Still, that won't bother the picture's target audience.
2. Sucked me in like a tar pit.
3. One thing is certain: Disney has thrown down the gauntlet to the wave of animated competition coming this summer.
4. Dinosaur labors at meticulous visual details adults will marvel over.
5. Groundbreaking!
6. The characters are terrifically articulated.
7. Dinosaur isn't perfect but, like the creatures it depicts, it is awesome to behold.
8. The script has lines adults will appreciate, mixed with howlers.
9. A quick blast.
10. One Dinosaur that won't soon be forgotten.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: While Dinosaur's plot is generic and dull, its stunning computer animation and detailed backgrounds are enough to make it worth a look.
1. Nobody's on automatic here, least of all the director, who's probably delivered the most impersonal -- but smoothly Hollywood-style professional -- movie of his career.
2. If Inside Man isn't the best movie Lee has done, it's probably the most purely exciting and enjoyable.
3. This is a filmmaker who has something to say, and knows how to say it. As creative rebirths go, it's a lot more fun than you might expect.
4. Viewers may be surprised at the smoothness with which the frequently bombastic Spike Lee navigates the mainstream.
5. The geometric precision with which this clever puzzle is laid out produces a picture whose sum exceeds its sometimes wayward parts.
6. As Inside Man works its way toward its satisfying finale, Lee trusts that we're smart enough to work some things out for ourselves.
7. If any old director-for-hire had made Inside Man it would have been a pretty good thriller. But Spike Lee makes it into something extraordinary.
8. A deft, tense, pure thriller, the movie has great star turns and is brilliantly directed, but it began as an extremely well-crated screenplay by Russell Gewirtz.
9. The climax doesn't just spell out every surprise plot turn, but italicizes and underlines them too, and then puts to use a yellow highlighter for solid measure.
10. [Lee's] most complete picture in over a decade.

Consensus: Spike Lee's energetic and clever bank-heist thriller is a smart genre film that is not only rewarding on its own terms, but manages to subvert its pulpy trappings with wit and skill -- and Denzel Washington is terrific as a brilliant hostage negotiator.