1. It would have been nice to have some heat in the kitchen.
2. A sumptuous celebration of the joy of food. Scene after scene is punctuated with tantalizing glimpses of haut-cuisine delicacies and mouth-watering talk of food. My stomach growled all through the movie.
3. No amount of chemistry or comedy could make what's always bound to happen next seem any less predictable.
4. All involved, in fact, hit their marks on the way to the picture's warm, fuzzy, complacent denouement.
5. No Reservations is diverting because of all the gleaming food on display. For those of us who can't stand the heat and so stay out of the kitchen, the intricate preparation of quail with truffle sauce is a wonder to behold.
6. Carol Fuchs's silly, mushy script has her character swerve without warning between obtuse rigidity and sweet normality.
7. Alas, not even Eckhart and Breslin can get Zeta-Jones to simmer.
8. One of the few movies out there that doesn't stoop to low-brow humor and bad-taste elements. The film's humor and drama is sweeter and comes from believable character and story development.
9. No Reservations succeeds as well as it does (kinda sorta) by virtue of Zeta-Jones' performance
10. The movie gives a modest level of pleasure, mainly because of Stuart Dryburgh's handsome, varied cinematography and the performances of the leads.
What is the critic consensus?
A: This romantic comedy may look good on paper, but it's too predictable and melancholy for the genre.

1. A drama about the capacities of some individuals to bounce back and survive in the face of ordeals, setbacks, and suffering.
2. Cotillard and Schoenaert both give award worthy performances, in a film that grips from the very outset without the need for vulgar spectacle.
3. Rust and Bone, Audiard's latest study in physical weathering and emotional repression, only further confirms his ongoing obsession with surfaces.
4. Audiard's film is shot and acted in such a down-to-earth, naturalistic manner that the story and characters convince you of their emotional truth. Restrained rather than overblown, this is melodrama that isn't melodramatic.
5. The entire picture feels like a poetic-grunge generality, with a penchant for jacked-up tension that feels applied to the situation, not pulled from within the people on screen.
6. Rust And Bone is a standout, a towering picture we can't wait to see again and that, this early in the year, is a no-brainer favorite for the awards season.
7. Yet again, Marion Cotillard is riveting.
8. A tender yet heavily de-romanticized love story between a boxer with broken hands and an orca trainer with missing legs, "Rust and Bone" serves as an impressive if somewhat overblown exercise in contrasts.
9. [A] sometimes engrossing, sometimes exasperating romance.
10. Rust And Bone is a big film in every sense, sure-footed, stylish and confident, that mainlines emotion into its audience.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Surging on strong performances from Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts, Rust and Bone is as vibrant and messily unpredictable as life itself.

1. Without passing moral judgments on either group, "Cartel Land" provides a vivid illustration of the dangers inherent whenever a government fails to meet its citizens' needs to the extent that they take matters into their own hands.
2. As a documentary, it's pretty damned depressing. As a parable of human nature, it's vital.
3. As the film demonstrates, this is far from a black-and-white situation.
4. Although the film has its shortcomings and simplifications, it's a bleakly persuasive view of a decades-long combat that respects no boundaries, and seems to hold no prospect of surcease.
5. The overall impact is harrowing and, considering the subject matter, appropriately hopeless.
6. Heineman earns major props for his courage under fire while also capturing striking and indelible images.
7. Not really an immediate, you-are-there experience. It's a patient, detached but cryptically horrified study of a true quagmire, and the well-meaning but temperamental gun friends trying to force a straight line out of total chaos.
8. A jaw-dropping documentary about two vigilante groups, on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, trying to stave off Mexican drug cartels.
9. All vigilante groups are not created equal; here, the nuances sometimes get lost.
10. If the key to price in real estate is "location, location, location," the key to success in vérité-style documentaries is "access, access, access." Which is what "Cartel Land" has in compelling amounts.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Raw, brutal, and bitter, Cartel Land offers a ground-level look at vigilante efforts to thwart organized crime at the Mexican-American border.

1. In real life, Elizabeth Shue was quite the activist, the first person in her New Jersey community to break the gender barrier in soccer: this is her charming(fictionalized)story.
2. Why is Gracie as processed as an after-school special? You miss the knockabout edge of Bend It Like Beckham -- though the ending, in its Pavlovian sports-flick way, pumps you up.
3. It's not without well-observed moments, and in the title role, Carly Schroeder makes an agreeably flawed and feisty rooting interest.
4. Gracie strives to be G.I. Jane in shin guards, but it ends up as She's the Man without the comedy.
5. How often do you see a film that's not only interested in girls' lives but equally honest about their tribulations and their potential?
6. Not a terrible movie...but it's awfully familiar--so much so that it probably should have been called Trudy.
7. Gracie's only achievement is technical, yet it has nothing to do with creative merit: Prints for the film, Davis Guggenheim's first feature-length fiction, will be carbon neutral.
8. An unbelievable mix of sports movie clichés and girl-power attitude
9. Firing on all formulaic cylinders, Gracie is heavy with tidy meaning and mealy morality.
10. For anyone who's ever had an adolescent girl in the house, Gracie will be both eerily familiar and a bit scary.
What is the critic consensus?
A:
Gracie can be rousing and touching in spots, but is ultimately undone by its predictable story arc and a lack of nuance.