1. This enjoyable mixture of wit, low voltage intrigue and highly charged attraction is really about the appeal of its two great stars and the beauty of its seaside setting.
2. To Catch A Thief (1955) is a Hitchcock-directed, lush, entertaining comedy/thriller concerning jewel heists on the French Riviera. Although the polished caper film
3. The heart of the film hinges on the enjoyable Côte d'Azur romance between Kelly and Grant.
4. Fluff, but made of spun gold, with Grant and Kelly at their glittering best.
5. One of the most lightweight (and not even particularly deceptively so) of Hitchcock's comedy-thrillers; a retreat from the implications of Rear Window into the realm of private jokes and sunny innuendo.
6. It's one of Hitchcock's lightest and most purely enjoyable exercises.
7. Hitchcock and screenwriter John Michael Hayes posited voyeuristic spectacle as the essence of cinema in Rear Window; in To Catch a Thief they validate their thesis with plenty of spectacle to be voyeuristic over.
8. A collection of VistaVision postcards.
9. Colorful, fun Hitchcock pairing Grant and Kelly.
10. ...has the feel of being made while on a getaway vacation.
Consensus: It may occasionally be guilty of coasting on pure charm, but To Catch a Thief has it in spades -- as well as a pair of perfectly matched stars in Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.
1. Viewers who come to see a football movie likely will leave satisfied. But those who want to see an Adam Sandler movie would do better to rent The Waterboy.
2. A quickly paced, slickly filmed entertainment that's also as crude and rude as the PG-13 rating will allow.
3. Sexist, homophobic, pointless and overloaded with brain-crushing bigotry...has an evil and putrid secret agenda that couldn't have less to do with football if it tried.
4. The Longest Yard scores big laughs.
5. Does Chris Rock even know what year it is? His tired-for-a-decade references bog down a remake that would be unwatchable were it not for a jazzed-up climactic game.
6. Plagued with product placement.
7. When Adam Sandler isn't interesting enough to hold your attention in an Adam Sandler movie, something is certainly amiss.
8. The product placement cluttering professional sports also taints ... an otherwise faithful remake.
9. What's missing is any real sense of drama.
10. If only the ethnic-reassigned Burt Reynolds had stayed naked on that bear rug.
Consensus: This Yard has some laughs but missing from this remake is the edginess of the original.
1. In the final analysis, this Holiday is a so-so late summer diversion, unlikely to reignite Beanmania -- or repeat the previous film's boffo box office.
2. Things break, food is inappropriately disposed of and a silly man in a brown suit makes bug-eyed faces. Just the thing your inner toddler might like, assuming he can stay awake.
3. If Brit comic Rowan Atkinson really is retiring his greatest creation, he's certainly kissing him off in style with this glossy, often charming road picture that has none of the coarse or crass tone of the Hollywood hit Bean of 10 years ago.
4. It turns out to be far better than you'd imagine, especially with Willem Dafoe cheesing things up as a pretentious auteur.
5. Mr. Bean's Holiday is sporadically funny.
6. The movie's pure good will can only carry it so far, and by the third act it has already exhausted all avenues of amusement.
7. Given its sense of quiet and penchant for harmless slapstick, a breath of fresh air in today's sea of raunchy, foul-mouthed sex comedies.
8. Do you Bean? If you do Bean, rejoice. Bean is back. If you don't Bean, here's a chance to start. Bean now, or forever hold your peace.
9. Among the pluses: Atkinson is a gifted physical comedian. And the film is a rarity: a kid-friendly movie that was clearly not produced as a vehicle for selling toys and video games.
10. Anyone wanting a family-friendly flick with lots of goofy facial expressions and mugging for the camera may as well just watch footage of dogs wearing funny hats.

Consensus: Mr. Bean's Holiday means well, but good intentions can't withstand the 90 minutes of monotonous slapstick and tired, obvious gags.