1. Room 237 evokes the appeal of conspiracy theories while refusing to endorse or completely disavow them.
2. I don't necessarily buy any of these alternate readings, but the passion these people bring to their theories is such that you're at least willing to meet them halfway.
3. It works like a Kubrickian Da Vinci Code, and it lures you into seeing The Shining as a kind of feature-length Zapruder film.
4. The rapturous responses seem over-the-top for this modest, entertaining,visually clever film. The fun is arguing with its subjects' looney theories; rewatch The Shining first.
5. ...theory-drunk ... hydra-headed exposition of the joys of deep reading and a boundary-pushing experiment in fair usage of copyrighted material.
6. I found myself torn between wanting to see The Shining again immediately and never, ever wanting to see it again.
7. The effect of Room 237 is intense. It's a deep dive into the rabbit hole of semiotics, designed to train viewers to become alert to what they're really seeing.
8. For film buffs who love to debate cinematic subtext, the documentary is both exciting and riveting. It's also just plain fun.
9. Ascher's unique and unforgettable film is a tribute to movie love. I couldn't have liked it more.
10. Maybe they're all right. Or wrong. It can't be settled. What matters is that people are still crazy about the beauty of a beautiful movie about going crazy.
Consensus: Mysterious and provocative, Room 237 is a fascinating journey into the world of obsessive cinephilles.
Q: 1. It is a broody psychological Western, a lot of peering out into endless prairie landscapes, as much Ingmar Bergman as John Ford, with a little bit of Heathcliff thrown in.
2. This is the year's epic western, and one wonders why it took so long to get out of the cutting room. See it.
3. As this old and twisted Jesse, Brad Pitt is quite good. But the movie really belongs to Casey Affleck as Robert Ford.
4. The oddest major studio release of the year, and one of the most admirable.
5. Breathes vibrant, murderous life into a Western that's a welcome change from the usual group of guys wandering across the desert.
6. Sustained passages of eerie, Malickian beauty (an early sequence involving a train robbery feels like one of the reasons that film was invented), mixed with increasing stretches of self-conscious artiness ... It casts a spell, but only intermittently.
7. The mosaic of moods conjures something that feels both ancient and startlingly contemporary -- with the same doom-laden DNA as great druggy, fatalistic 1970s anti-Westerns like McCabe & Mrs. Miller and Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid.
8. One of the most cinematically assured works of the year. Blows most tried-and-true westerns out of the water.
9. A simple, clean, smart idea for a story turned into an agonizingly pretentious mess with world class cinematography and some good performances.
10. Fact is, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford should have been better. It should have followed the real focus on the story and done away with at least an hour of subplotting.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: On the strength of its two lead performances Assassination is an expertly crafted period piece, and an insightful look at one of the enduring figures of American lore.
1. the whole shebang plays out like a twisted Murder She Wrote episode
2. The movie wants to be a combination film noir and horror comedy, but the timing is all off and the performances are flat across the board.
3. Entirely derivative and utterly wretched.
4. ...a disappointingly lifeless adaptation...
5. Fun performances from Routh and Huntington can't make up for an extremely convoluted and mostly soulless story -- even when there's a giant zombie running around.
6. Dylan Dog: Dead Of Night is a fun comedy/horror whodunnit with a supernatural twist. It delivers plenty of movie fun too, just like those campy 80's monster flicks.
7. Dylan Dog works best when it has fun with P.I. conventions; when the monsters take over, it goes downhill.
8. A pointless, very loose adaptation of the popular Italian comic that plays like a bad episode of Buffy.
9. There's one fight scene involving a rope and a pulley that briefly lifts the general torpor, but as soon as that's over, it's back to snoozeville.
10. Isn't awful, but it is awfully familiar,...coming across as something that might appear on the SciFi Network on a Saturday night.
Consensus: An uninspired, feebly-acted horror/comedy that produces little scares and laughs.
1. A movie so addicted to the crack pipe of delirious cinematic badness that it has real potential as a camp classic.
2. Is Saldana the new Schwarzenegger, only leaner, meaner and much better looking in spandex? I think so.
3. Genre action at its most generic, a thick pudding of all the usual rooftop chases, martial-artsy slap-ups, and improbably huge weaponry.
4. All killers should look this good doing their dirty work. It'd be a better world.
5. As a solidly entertaining piece of trashy exploitation its only drawback is a PG-13 rating.
6. Despite its borderline campiness and arrested adolescent mentality, Colombiana succeeds in delivering the goods as a fun albeit formulaic action flick that's most notable for Zoe Saldana's stone-cold yet still sexy performance.
7. Along with a spectacularly physical performance by Zaldana, Colombiana features some of the best frame-for-frame shots you will see this year.
8. Nothing in Colombiana feels remotely original, from the initial, unexplained killings to the string of bad supporting actors with indeterminate accents who are periodically shot, knifed, garroted, run over, blown up and eaten alive.
9. The results are so clumsy and over-the-top that they should have just called the movie Panty Assassin and played the whole thing for laughs.
10. While most action films fall apart because they succumb to stupidity, Colombiana suffers most because it tries to be too smart.

Consensus: Zoe Saldana has the chops but she's taken out by erratic and sloppy filmmaking.