1. Skinwalkers may be an attempt to reinvent a myth. But this bloodless dog isn't exactly a life-saving transfusion for a genre that hasn't shown signs of life in years.
2. A hastily-edited-to-a-PG-13 werewolf movie, with acting so dreadful it makes Troll 2 look like a Mercury Theater production.
3. What differentiates Skinwalkers from other bad werewolf movies is just how colossally bad it is: it makes Blood and Chocolate look like Ashes and Diamonds.
4. The only thing more boring than a vampire with moral issues about biting people in the neck is a werewolf who'd rather become fully human than howl at the moon once a month.
5. The problem with most werewolf movies isn't that they're derivative, but that they're badly written, badly acted, or just plain silly. Skinwalkers hits the trifecta: all three apply.
6. Why make a serious, no-holds-barred horror film about werewolves when you can make a PG-13 kiddie show free of all the elements an audience goes to see this kind of movie for?
7. A thoroughly undistinguished addition to a genre that probably reached its peak a quarter-century ago with An American Werewolf in London.
8. Skinwalkers plays more like '70s drive-in fare than a monster mash of recent vintage.
9. A werewolf movie without much bite.
10. You'll laugh and roll your eyes, but at least you won't be annoyed.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Skinwalkers is an atrociously-acted project whose unoriginal and ineptly-staged action sequences remind viewers of far better werewolf and action movies.

1. Responsible for jump-starting Jamie Lee Curtis's career, this one so thoroughly and thoughtfully exploited American angst that it's no wonder we had to sit through a slew of derivative slasher flicks for the better part of the next decade.
2. Considered by many to be a modern horror classic, Halloween succeeds through simplicity.
3. Halloween (1978) is a genuinely scary, stylistic and tasteful, extremely well-crafted slasher/horror classic from young film director John Carpenter
4. Perfect entertainment for the night of October 31st in any year.
5. flawless for what it is: a completely immersive, visceral dynamo of stylistic belly-jiggling and spine-shivering.
6. Halloween remains untouched -- a modern classic of the most horrific kind.
7. One of the first and the flat-out best of that ghetto of the horror film genre, the slasher movie.
8. It's hard to get behind a main character who's so unexciting. But maybe Michael Myers is the real main character. In which case, mission accomplished: I'm freaked out.
9. One of the scariest movies ever made.
10. Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller, a movie so violent and scary that, yes, I would compare it to Psycho.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Scary, suspenseful, and viscerally thrilling, Halloween set the standard for modern horror films.

1. Stephanie Soechtig's potentially life-changing documentary Fed Up has the look and feel of an extended 60 Minutes investigative news segment. Except that it's much, much more.
2. Before "Fed Up," no movie had ever sent me hurrying to my refrigerator to read food labels - but there's always a first time.
3. Fed Up is a workmanlike documentary, as undistinguished in style as a PowerPoint slide show. It nonetheless finds traction in its depiction of the food industry's Montgomery Burns-like practices.
4. A surprisingly in-depth and confrontational examination into the obesity epidemic among Americans, especially children, over the last 30 years.
5. "The government is subsidizing the obesity epidemic," says food writer Michael Pollan. "Fed Up" will make you want to do something about it.
6. It pulls no punches in its informed outrage against the food industry, zeroing in on the rampant use of sugar and its many multisyllabic variations.
7. This new documentary aims for something very difficult: It takes a tired subject -- the obesity epidemic -- and completely reframes the conversation.
8. Some lessons are overfamiliar (almonds good, corn syrup bad), but the section on corporate influence over school lunches is enough to make you spit out that 20-ounce soda from the concession stand.
9. Without being preachy about it, Fed Up flat-out tells us that it is indeed past time to be fed up -- to insist that action be taken, and take it ourselves. This film is a bracing wake-up call.
10. The film gets its point across ably enough using journalism that it doesn't really need four fat teenagers to record video diaries about their unhappiness with their weight and their inability to do anything about it.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Compelling and troubling in equal measure, Fed Up is an advocacy documentary that earns its outrage.

1. Doesn't have a lick of cynicism -- it's as pure of heart as they come. A fine ideal, but it feels as flat as a pizza.
2. Well and truly geared to a female audience who are likely to savour the fanciful plot and neatly wrapped feel-good denouement.
3. Seyfried, whose heart frankly doesn't even seem to be in this movie, has no discernible chemistry with either of the men in her life.
4. I want to live in the alternate universe where Vanessa Redgrave's Claire is the lead of Letters to Juliet and the two vapid dorks who trail her on a journey of lost love can learn a lesson or two but never take the spotlight.
5. Director Gary Winick and screenwriters Jose Rivera and Tim Sullivan deal in genre clichés, sure, yet they let us view them with fresh eyes.
6. Not to be a cynic or anything, but maybe a fictional 13-year-old isn't the best source of advice for the lovelorn.
7. Seyfried is a real beauty and her star is definitely on the rise after adding this definitive chick flick to her resume. Redgrave is still a classy dame and steals every scene that she appears in...
8. [Redgrave's] performance makes the predictable antics of Letters to Juliet worth tolerating.
9. Endless vistas of the lush Italian countryside, some playful banter, and a likable cast make "Letters to Juliet" worthwhile, even if you feel like you've seen it before. Several times before.
10. Super swoony romantic fluff that's fun for tweens.
What is the critic consensus?
A:
Letters to Juliet has a refreshingly earnest romantic charm, but it suffers from limp dialogue and an utter lack of surprises.