1. It's great bubble gum for the eyes.
2. Not as dark as its predecessor but still a great visual feast
3. Minds in neutral, zoning out on the eye candy.
4. Kilmer's good, not surprisingly, but he doesn't get to do a lot.
5. The best to date.
6. Weak plot, complete lack of character development and at least some actors who didn't look particularly interested in their roles.
7. The film ultimately lacks genuine suspense, and Schumacher unwisely moves the film back towards the camp of the 1960s television series.
8. Takes two giant steps backward.
9. As for Kilmer, he gamely steps into the dual Batman/Wayne role but can't get much traction, finding, as Michael Keaton had, that beyond a stern jaw there's not much to be done with it, since the suit does most of the work.
10. The second sequel to Tim Burton's 1989 blockbuster makes its predecessors appear models of subtlety and coherence.
Consensus: Loud, excessively busy, and often boring, Batman Forever nonetheless has the charisma of Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones to offer mild relief.
1. This parody of teen comedies is just teen comedy by the numbers, for those who can only count to three.
2. A film's always in trouble when it has more screenwriters than cast members.
3. With so many gags coming at us so fast and furiously, some of them are bound to misfire. But, hey, that's OK: There's always another gag around the corner, and chances are it'll be funny.
4. Surprisingly funny.
5. Beyond the obligatory sight gags -- and a French-kiss scene that would simply stun the AARP -- much of the film elicits little more than weak giggles.
6. Laugh-out-loud funny at times, comic bits that, no matter how stupid or base, make it virtually impossible to suppress a chuckle.
7. There simply isn't anything to say about it -- good or bad. Maybe that's because it isn't a movie at all, just a string of scenes.
8. While not Oscar-worthy stuff, Not Another Teen Movie does make the laughter grade.
9. Many of the movie's targets are just too big and too obvious to elicit more than a smile of recognition, and the movie quickly degenerates into little more than a game of spot the (generally unfunny) reference for fans of the teen genre.
10. In director Joel Gallen's attempt to spoof the genre, he has merely added another lame entry to it.
Consensus: NATM has some funny moments, but the movie requires the audience to have familiarity with the movies being spoofed and a tolerance for toilet and sexual humor to be truly effective.
1. Ip Man is a highly competent, even slick biopic, but by reshaping its protagonist's life story towards cinematic convention, it ends up being just another martial arts movie.
2. There's a pleasingly old-fashioned air to all the flying drop-kicks and straight-finger jabs, even if it lacks the cinematic agility we have now come to expect from this kind of thing.
3. The movie is clearly hagiographic, but this aspect and its general function as a martial arts movie are supported greatly by Yen.
4. First and foremost, Ip Man is an excuse for Yen to demonstrate his newfound mastery of the Wing Chun style. On that front, the film succeeds brilliantly.
5. The action is enthralling even if the storyline doesn't always have the ring of truth about it.
6. Yip's film benefits from crisp cinematography and an engaging 'Seven Samurai'-style storyline, but it's Sammo Hung's superbly choreographed kick-ass fight scenes that dazzle.
7. Yen's handful of duels do delight; it's everything surrounding them that feels tired and trite.
8. Legend trumps fact in Ip Man, a kickass fictionalized biopic of the titular grandmaster of Wing Chun martial arts and mentor to Bruce Lee.
9. The astonishing fight scenes are some of the most exciting ever filmed in a martial arts movie that raises the bar for the genre. For any martial arts fan, "Ip Man" is mandatory viewing.
10. It's all quite conventional... and nonetheless rousing.

Consensus: At once beholden to the established conventions of the genre and delightfully subversive of them, Ip Man is one of the most exciting -- and refreshingly character-driven -- martial arts films in years.