1. Lo, how the mighty have fallen. Great classic film homages, though.
2. A desperately unfunny action comedy, mirthless not only in its effect on an audience but in its whole aura.
3. Except for some doubles, Chan performs his fight scenes in this film live on camera while doing his most creative choreography in years.
4. This one seemed longer than before, which might not be the best compliment to the movie, but it gets laughs.
5. One exquisite sequence has Jackie both dancing and fighting to the tune of "Singin' in the Rain." It is a wonderfully entertaining fight scene.
6. Moins réussi que l'original mais tout de męme amusant .
7. Chan and Wilson made and enjoyable team once again.
8. Shanghai Knights is a happy marriage of East and West that makes one long for Shanghai Morn, Shanghai Dawn and Shanghai Midnight.
9. Manages to entertain even as it's floating into the ether.
10. Chan delivers enough fun, eye-popping action sequences to make you overlook any plot contrivances or predictability.
What is the critic consensus?
A: A silly, anachronistic mess, but the pairing of Chan and Wilson makes the movie fun.

1. We know what comic book movies are capable of being. They can have greatness in them. Fantastic Four has nothing more than okay-ness.
2. Before the inevitable and surprisingly anticlimactic battle with Doom, we are treated to two extreme-sports demonstrations, several training montages, [and] an ill-advised love triangle.
3. If I were to put the same amount of effort into my review that the folks behind Fantastic Four expended trying to entertain you, the rest of this page would be blank.
4. Weighted down with a turgid story and utterly middling special effects, The Fantastic Four isn't likely to be Stan Lee's favorite of the nearly dozen Marvel Comics adaptations either out already or on their way.
5. Fantastic Four is left passing off dopey comedy and performances as playfulness.
6. If exposure to cosmic rays made all women look like Jessica Alba, then every Lifetime movie should glow green.
7. Heaven forbid a summer blockbuster embrace its popcorn-munching appeal and rescue the industry from the 2005 box office slump.
8. Superheroes are only as good as the supervillain, so let's get these forces clashing early on and often.
9. Fantastic Four is a special-effects extravaganza, but its plot is mired in issues that only schoolboys care about.
10. Along the lines of such tongue-in-cheek action films as “Sahara” and “National Treasure.”
What is the critic consensus?
A: Marred by goofy attempts at wit, subpar acting, and bland storytelling, Fantastic Four is a mediocre attempt to bring Marvel's oldest hero team to the big screen.

1. The film has some outrageously enjoyable set-pieces, but overall, the convoluted plot and Rodriguez' agenda spoil the fun.
2. Un entretenimiento crudo, básico, con personajes de una sola pieza, algunos diálogos increíbles y generosas dosis de sangre y desmembramientos. Un homenaje de Robert Rodríguez al cine clase B que tanto le gusta.
3. Supremely self-aware and steeped in the aesthetics of vintage exploitation movies,Machete is a loving, blood-spattered homage to the gritty grindhouse action pictures of yesteryear.
4. Robert Rodriguez... brings his A game to the Z-grade, revelling in the cheesiness and over-the-top violence.
5. Yes it's a lot of fun and great to see such an illustrious cast get in on the act of making lowbrow cinema with a smile on their face, shame the cult element remains and only fans of the grindhouse genre will be fully engaged from start to finish.
6. Social commentary, you ask? Quite how can a film centrally preoccupied with Danny Trejo stabbing and shooting people and having sex with lots of women have any sort of pretension to political currency?
7. The lack of subtlety and discipline is what can make Machete a disreputable pleasure and less than a full success.
8. [Robert] Rodriguez's politics are right on the surface and about as complex as the film's revenge plot, a kind-of populist response to the anti-immigration rhetoric...
9. Starts out strong but things get a little wonky toward the finale. Sadly, the film is far too married to the faux trailer footage.
10. While it's riotously entertaining, there's nothing much to it.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Machete is messy, violent, shallow, and tasteless -- and that's precisely the point of one of the summer's most cartoonishly enjoyable films.

1. Passionately humanistic as poetic, an urgent and timely portrait. . .of Sufi Muslim culture and everyday life antithetical to the extreme fundamentalist definition of Islam.
2. A film that deliberately expresses its outrage with religious oppression, offering moments of humour and, at times, startling beauty.
3. Jihadism is perpetually ablaze in the news, but the Mauritanian movie Timbuktu, a nominee for the best foreign film Oscar, gives those who suffer its condemnations a searingly human face.
4. Sissako achieves the daunting task of humanizing the villains by playing on audience expectations and preconceptions.
5. An emerging star in African and world cinema, [Sissako] is a talent every film lover should note.
6. "Timbuktu" is culturally deep, visually ravishing, utterly heartbreaking work.
7. There's no oasis to be found in this film's arid landscape. Peaceful co-existence is just a mirage.
8. Timbuktu is a transfixing meditation on faith, occupation, and man's fallacies in the face of God. Abderrahmane Sissako presents an unnerving situation and elevates it into a fascinating microcosm.
9. Rather than shock, Sissako envelops us in a heavy sadness as beauty and happiness is destroyed by the same species who had created it...
10. A masterful and heartbreaking account of religion trumping humanity.
What is the critic consensus?
A:
Gracefully assembled and ultimately disquieting, Timbuktu is a timely film with a powerful message.