Q: 1. Director Chris Noonan ('Babe') gives us a story with the right balance of humor, pathos and romance.
2. Deftly navigating the line between the sublime and the saccharine ...
3. A Beatrix Potter biopic: So much more than just cute and fuzzy bunnies.
4. While it cannot sustain the fairytale enchantment of something like Finding Neverland, Miss Potter is, nonetheless, a worthy and sweet, middle-of-the-road biopic.
5. Miss Potter is too well crafted to actually be bad, but it's too light to be better than good. An entertaining trifle, but a trifle nonetheless.
6. The movie is made to measure for mothers, aunts and grandmothers who would share Potter's books, such as "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," with tikes of any generation.
7. Portraying a real-life hero can be a tough assignment. But Zellweger breezes through the role, flashing her puckish grin, talking in her soft, breathy voice and giving very human face to one of the most beloved figures of English letters.
8. For fans of Potter's work, "Miss Potter" is indispensable. But even viewers with the haziest memories of those unique little books will enjoy spending 90 minutes inside her idyllic world.
9. There's nothing inherently wrong with MISS POTTER. It's just a throwback to the biopics of the 1930s and 40s and in some ways it may seem progressive to contemporary audiences.
10. Much like star Renée Zellweger's portrayal of its famous title character, Miss Potter is a strange, split-personality kind of thing.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: A charming biopic that maintains its sweetness even in sadder moments.
1. A creaky staircase gothic.
2. Becomes a fascinating study of isolation and frustration that successfully recreates both the physical setting and emotional tensions of the Papin sisters.
3. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Murderous Maids is how restrained and sensitive French director Jean-Pierre Denis keeps his film.
4. ... a story, an old and scary one, about the monsters we make, and the vengeance they take.
5. The weight of the piece, the unerring professionalism of the chilly production, and the fascination embedded in the lurid topic prove recommendation enough.
6. Beautifully crafted and cooly unsettling...recreates the atmosphere of the crime expertly.
7. Dark and disturbing, yet compelling to watch.
8. Though far from a feel-good affair, it is never cheap or cynical. Its creepiness is well-earned.
9. Testud is the burning center of a clinically dispassionate film.
10. Murderous Maids pulls no punches in its depiction of the lives of the Papin sister and the events that led to their notorious rise to infamy...
Consensus: A historical account that is equally disturbing and engrossing, with a powerful performance by Sylvie Testud.
Q: 1. A breath of fresh air within this genre...
2. A simple, slow-moving, shaggy-dog story that has enough charm to keep us involved but not enough dramatic tension to rise above the ordinary.
3. [S]mart and sweet but unsentimental and warmly genuine in its portrait of childhood innocence and the adventure of growing up...
4. I wanted to like Winn-Dixie ... I just didn't believe it.
5. There's bad, there's "so bad it's good"... and then there's this moronic film.
6. Because of Winn-Dixie-based on the beloved novel by Kate DiCamillo-turns out to be a modest success for the family crowd.
7. Most of the time, you can't go wrong with kids and dogs. Then there's Because of Winn-Dixie.
8. Sure, there's nothing here that hasn't already been covered in a Hallmark movie, but it's still refreshing to find a well-made, enjoyable film for families.
9. [The script] can never decide whether this is supposed to be an over-the-top comedy or a deeply moving drama -- and doesn't do that well at either.
10. In pace, sensibility, and big, beating heart, this is a child's first indie film, and it's the better for it.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: An old-fashioned, if bland, adaptation of Kate DiCamillo's novel.
1. Payne and Taylor have taken another giant step forward with a mature, adult piece of work that takes a rare and unvarnished look at life as it is.
2. Nicholson's acting sets a new gold standard, making Schmidt a movie you won't forget.
3. While About Schmidt features Jack Nicholson's most impressively controlled performance in many years, the film's mix of bleakness and cheap laughs has to be seen as a disappointment after the sharp satire and moral complexity of Election.
4. I just loved every minute of this film.
5. About Schmidt is about perfect. It has heart, humor and a healthy appreciation for the frailties of human nature.
6. It's an astonishing piece of acting and a really interesting film.
7. On balance, I recommend the movie both for Nicholson's performance and for the opportunity to spend some time with the kind of man that we often meet in real life, but rarely see on screen.
8. This road movie gives you emotional whiplash, and you'll be glad you went along for the ride.
9. More touching and thoughtful than Kathy Bates' fat hoo-hoo, full frontal shot would suggest. But don't worry, ladies: You get to see Jack's naked backside, too.
10. Ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork: an uneasy marriage of Louis Begley's source novel (About Schmidt) and an old Payne screenplay.
Consensus: In this funny, touching character study, Nicholson gives one of the best performances of his career.
Q: 1. It left me itching for something less warped to identify with than a human fly.
2. David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of the sci-fi schlockfest The Fly is celebrated as perhaps the most perfectly balanced of the director's pre-prestige films.
3. As slimy and as grotesque as some of its special effects become, The Fly is a far superior horror film to the top-grossing film in America of late, Aliens.
4. The Fly seizes on our ingrained, instinctive horror of sexuality, the sense of shame that our fundamentally puritanical society can't help but teach us, and by confirming our worst fears, helps us, for a moment, to move beyond them.
5. A masterpiece of tragic science fiction and Gothic horror...
6. What makes The Fly such a stunning piece of obsessive film making is the way Cronenberg deftly allows us to identify with his monstrous creation.
7. Wildly imaginative, gut-wrenchingly scarifying and profoundly primal (not to mention funny), David Cronenberg's The Fly is a movie that whacks you in the solar plexus and leaves you gasping.
8. Any dolt could fill a movie with sickening stuff, and there's nothing scary, funny or interesting about what Cronenberg has done. It is just tedious and insulting. Get the swatter.
9. A classic combination of the romantic and the macabre is about to set moviegoers abuzz the rest of the summer. It`s The Fly, a remake; but it`s accomplished with a brisk and chilling new inspiration.
10. What's good about the film are the strong performances and the ingenious, mostly amusing script. What's ugly, of course, is the grossness. And what's bad is the movie's inability to reconcile its good and ugly aspects.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: David Cronenberg combines his trademark affinity for gore and horror with strongly developed characters, making The Fly a surprisingly affecting tragedy.