1. Little more than a gilded trifle, though it offers its share of light enjoyments.
2. A lovely quicksilver version of literary history, with the accent on young love that emerges unbidden, and old love that endures.
3. Plummer is just fantastic overall, and easily the best reason to sit through the film's two-hour running time.
4. Plummer and Mirren find theatrical sparks; they enliven Hoffman's thesis about Tolstoy's beliefs and his contradictory, actual love life.
5. Just as you're settled into thinking it's going to be college-lit-class comedic throughout, the game changes and everybody puts on their serious faces for the final act.
6. There's room for both drama and fun in director Michael Hoffman's staid script, but he doesn't find much of either. And the key problem seems to be: not enough Tolstoy.
7. Turning a fabulously operatic, thematically replete true-life tale into a frosted slice of dinner theatrics, The Last Station conveys nothing more convincingly than its own self-regard.
8. Helen Mirren outdoes even her Oscar-winning performance in The Queen.
9. The movie has its evocative moments, but it's so rigged on the side of anti-intellectualism that you'd never guess that Tolstoy's late work inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
10. The script falls a little flat but all those hordes of Leo Tolstoy fans out there will have a hoot.
Consensus: Michael Hoffman's script doesn't quite live up to its famous subject, but this Tolstoy biopic benefits from a spellbinding tour de force performance by Helen Mirren.
Q: 1. The tone and tenor of Waititi's effort are quieter, gentler [than Napoleon Dynamite]. This is low-key stuff, but strangely, goofily endearing.
2. It becomes apparent early on that excessive teenage eccentricity and terminal self-delusion isn't quite as cute in the adult male and absent father.
3. ...a perfect example of manufactured tweeness, a film desperate to be quirky and offbeat but which just doesn't get it...
4. [Director] Waititi's obviously a talent, but here he seems to be trying too hard to not try too hard; he's undermining the cleverness of the writing with the thudding hulk of its delivery.
5. Sorely lacks is a genuine sense of humanity.
6. As pure character study, it's a keeper.
7. A disturbing film trying to diguise itself as a quirky romantic comedy. There are indeed some laugh-out-loud moments; unfortunately most of the laughs are aimed at -- not with -- the misfits.
8. If you just can't get enough of watching a waif being mistreated for comic effect, by all means go see Eagle vs. Shark.
9. ...will either leave you beaming or give you hives. I itched a bit at first, but the movie eventually won me over.
10. Floats by on a mood of concerned and puckish good will.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Though there are frequent moments of wit and mordant humor, Eagle vs Shark needs more to distinguish itself from other precious, Napoleon Dynamite-ish comedies.
1. Gilliam shows that there is something appealing about drug highs. It wouldn't be honest to say otherwise. And, yes, they'll destroy you. It's honest about that too.
2. There is not enough of the drug dementia and too much philosophizing by Gilliam.
3. It is Gilliam fastening his lance to a Chevrolet convertible and charging at the windmills with his foot to the floor
4. Darn funny, but those moments of seemingly-inspired humor are more than offset by the rest of the movie, which is nearly unwatchable.
5. This big-screen adaptation of the 1971 cult classic is a sure candidate for many worst ten film lists.
6. This movie inspires no fear in me, but loathing? Yes. Oh yes.
7. It's a scattershot rendering of a scattershot story told with scattershot effectiveness.
8. To actually see the images instead of imagining them changes the dynamic and the whole affair lurches into seediness, sleaze and too much vomit on screen.
9. It may start off as a lighthearted, excess-filled, party-road-trip movie, but Depp is reigned in a little towards the end as his character (a stand-in for Thompson) poetically bemoans the sad failure of the late-60s ideals and values.
10. A beautiful cinematic showcase for Thompson at the peak of his writing skills.
Consensus: Visually creative, but also aimless, repetitve, and devoid of character development.
Q: 1. Ruthless, inventive and surprisingly lyrical.
2. A wonderful little vampire movie. Most enjoyable.
3. a perverse, penetrating vision of modern vampirism in which the word vampire is never mentioned
4. [A]n intense film, an eerie depiction of the isolated, empty middle of America... surprisingly haunting...
5. Southern-fried vampire-noir romance action horror tragedy. I love this movie.
6. Kathryn Bigelow took on the big boys and won.
7. The great Kathryn Bigelow made her solo directorial debut, and managed to emphasize the relationships between the characters while using the gory showstoppers as support.
8. You might call this the scattershot school of film making.
9. Cool little vampire flick
10. It's a smart, creepy, violent, funny, and modern vampire movie that benefits from some wonderful performances, a stunning visual texture, and music by Tangerine Dream.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Near Dark is at once a creepy vampire film, a thrilling western, and a poignant family tale, with humor and scares in abundance.
1. Direct hit!
2. A sophomoric, broad-strokes farce, one with likeable characters and an abundance of heart, not to mentions wrenches to the head and balls to the groin.
3. Zoolander fans will love every minute of this movie. The rest of us can wait until it comes out on video.
4. ...silly, illogical and downright brainless fluff that, for one reason or another, manages to be both funny and charismatic all the way through.
5. A non-stop gagfest around a subject that has no right to be funny.
6. Dodgeball ducks most filmmaking no-nos and manages to serve up a light-hearted treat.
7. Entertaining and funny, despite being loaded with clichés and groin humor.
8. Dodgeball, I am shocked to say, rewards you for paying attention. It also rewards you for having totally juvenile sensibility, so it's really win win.
9. A comedy with a crazy bounce, but only if you're willing to dodge the dumb, dodgy jokes.
10. a pretty hilarious movie thanks to Stiller's willingness to let himself look like a complete idiot just for laughs

Consensus: Proudly profane and splendidly silly, Dodgeball is a worthy spiritual successor to the goofball comedies of the 1980s.