1. A mordant parable of and about our time as well as a poem of personal urban decay.
2. The film seems pitiless as it records every detail but, as you watch a man who clings to life and an ambulance driver whose search for a hospital becomes a mythic quest, what you're left with is compassion.
3. By recording this all too commonplace and dehumanizing process, Puiu's film shows the sick old man and the strangers who deal with him to be all too human -- extraordinarily so.
4. Think of this Romanian import as the anti-E.R. -- no high drama, no kinetic editing and no caring, camera-ready doctors.
5. ... dark and overlong drama ...
6. A film of universal small human moments and big-system failure.
7. This two-and-half-hour Romanian drama may sound like a trial, but it's oddly, warmly captivating.
8. A tour de force of cinema verite with astonishing performances by a huge cast of small players.
9. Long, but engrossing and frequently enraging drama that not only exposes the flaws in the Romanian health service, but also in modern humanity.
10. Stay with it and you'll discover a devastatingly powerful blast at red tape and an achingly moving examination of what we will all have to face one day.
Consensus: Shot in naturalistic style, this is a powerful indictment of absurdity and indifference in the face of human suffering.
Q: 1. There are two crucial bits of miscasting, one bad, one good, both distracting.
2. A too-familiar tale.
3. Kyle MacLachlan's robust impersonation of Cary Grant is good for a laugh, but its overuse is just one of the crimes against this joyless cross-cultural gay romance.
4. A cute, ineffectual film that breaks absolutely no new ground but enjoys itself as it skips down the familiar paths.
5. Rashid struggles with tone and pacing ... but his characters are so vivid and the romance so sweet that we forgive him.
6. [It's] a blend of trite plot points and obnoxious characters, held together by the notion that you should be watching something else instead.
7. ...more self-congratulatory than genuinely edgy, and the best reason to see it is MacLachlan's tidy impersonation.
8. A mildly amusing gay comedy, with the only novel point of Cary Grant serving as a spiritual mentor; the rest is formula.
9. Color me unconvinced.
10. Its plot is hackneyed and banal.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Kyle MacLachlan does a very good imitation Cary Grant in this forced and contrived tale.
1. In the end, it's the less high-scoring offspring of the 1977 classic Slap Shot, but to even mention it in that movie's company is praise enough.
2. All it wants is slapstick violence and "Slap Shot" profanity. And it delivers both - albeit not much else.
3. What's somewhat surprising is you don't have to give a hoot about hockey to enjoy the movie. This is just a guy living his dream: Hitting people.
4. "Goon" easily takes the title of second-best hockey comedy I've ever seen.
5. While well-intentioned, and Seann William Scott does a bang-up job, the tone of the film swings as wide as a hockey stick.
6. Bloody sports dramedy about brutal life of hockey enforcer
7. A consistently funny and heartfelt tribute to small-town Canadian hockey that shows obvious affection for its subject and characters.
8. Goon is like a hockey enforcer cartoon with heart, over-the-top and brilliant...
9. It's every bit as sharp and funny as Slap Shot.
10. Scott isn't bad: He sells the comedy of his character's ingrained politeness as much as the aggression. But "Goon" feels like a movie starring a gimmick, not a person.
Consensus: Goon is a crude slapstick comedy with well-formed characters and a surprising amount of heart.
Q: 1. A wilderness struggle that will take you to some deep emotional places.
2. The Edge, more of a drama than the action/thriller it's being billed as, exhibits a restrained literateness that's quite effective.
3. Unsuccessfully mixes melodrama with action/adventure and satire.
4. Bart the bear steals the show!
5. A few scattered profanities, a couple of gory accidents and a subplot about suspected adultery are all that separates this story from the grade-school classic "My Side of the Mountain."
6. Mamets and Baldwins and bears. Oh my!
7. A pretty routine B-type action movie with some nice touches.
8. Mamet has always been concerned with primal masculinity...The test of these men is twofold: can they survive the wilderness, and can they survive each other? [Blu-ray]
9. ...not a terrifically memorable piece of filmmaking.
10. A riveting story of survival, and the most rousing and gripping outdoor adventure since the original Jaws. One of 1997's very best films.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: The Edge is an entertaining hybrid of brainy Mamet dialogue with brawny outdoors action -- albeit one that sadly lacks as much bite as its furry antagonist.
1. It may smell awful from a distance, especially if you have low tolerance for lowbrow humor, but up close this yarn about an unlikely golf star is fairly painless.
2. Fluff, but enjoyable fluff.
3. You don't feel that Sandler and director Dennis Dugan are trying for the kind of subversiveness that might just make Happy's brutal anarchy more effective.
4. Happy Gilmore does often make the viewer burst out laughing.
5. To my own surprise, I laughed a lot.
6. It's just a minor little film that you forget until the next Adam Sandler flick comes along.
7. As dumb as Caddyshack was, though, it seems like George Bernard Shaw compared to this poor stepchild. Back to stand-up, Adam Sandler.
8. A lame, unoriginal comedy that may offer a few scattered chuckles, but more often than not, serves up a bewildering series of bizarre non-jokes, supposedly ironic product placement, cheesy music cues, and tired sight gags.
9. The Happy Gilmore character is strange. I guess we are supposed to like him.
10. Sandler's movie is worth a few laughs, but not many of the comic sequences are original, and even fewer are inspired.

Consensus: Those who enjoy Adam Sandler's schtick will find plenty to love in this gleefully juvenile take on professional golf; those who don't, however, will find it unfunny and forgettable.