Critic consensus:Visually dazzling and emotionally resonant, Slumdog Millionaire is a film that's both entertaining and powerful.

Numbered reviews:1. There's currently plenty of Oscar buzz and it's richly deserved, as Slumdog Millionaire ranks alongside The Wrestler as the two latest masterpieces of the 21st Century.
2. What a difference a good screenplay makes.
3. Jets along on a rocket-fuel cocktail of blood-pumping adrenaline, powerful secrets, searing heartache and rousing uplift.
4. It's a big, exuberant film that revels in the joy of a good story.
5. Features a striking hero named Jamal Malik, who is as intrepid, indomitable and pure of heart as an idealized medieval knight.
6. Like a director from Hollywood's golden age, Boyle has a particular talent for putting a realistic spin on the outlandish.
7. Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, the older Jamal and Latika, will make you smile and cry and happy you saw Slumdog Millionaire, which will certainly be in the Oscar hunt.
8. I have tried, but I cannot imagine the person who would not have a fantastic time at Slumdog Millionaire.
9. Shows how a critic-pleasing film can be every bit as overbearing as a crowd-pleasing one
10. Slumdog Millionaire immerses the audience in an alien landscape and shows it through the eyes of a young man fighting against history and his own culture's expectations.


Critic consensus:The Last Castle is well acted and rousing for the most part, but the story can't stand up to close scrutiny.

Numbered reviews:1. A mundane and predictable amalgam of prison movie cliches and archetypes.
2. The story is a stirring vehicle for serious themes embodied by sharply drawn characters.
3. The Last Castle is not as simple as it looks, though its appeal is simple.
4. The Last Castle, while engrossing in parts, might have benefited from more pre-shooting talk about what makes an intriguing character -- and what makes a star performance.
5. A heavy-handed military prison melodrama.
6. Devolves into a mundane warden-versus-inmate conclusion.
7. An intermittently witty script and Rod Lurie's assured direction triumph over the cornball factor.
8. Once you strip away the red, white and blue bunting, the film we're left with is one swell action sequence -- a prison riot -- and every prison movie cliche in the (1940s vintage) book.
9. Thanks to Redford and Gandolfini, you might be able to forgive The Last Castle's prison-movie cliches, as well as the rash of improbabilities that undermine the film's extended final prison-yard battle.
10. Obvious but involving.


Critic consensus:Smart, tightly wound, and solidly acted, Margin Call turns the convoluted financial meltdown of '08 into gripping, thought-provoking drama.

Numbered reviews:
1. A Wall Street version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' in which the weak are whisked aside and the alpha dogs stick around long enough to fill their pockets with millions of other people's money.
2. Gets the little details right, the way everyone is one bad week away from being homeless, the way you can have a conversation with a colleague with the cleaning lady standing in between you and no one will ever even acknowledge that she's there.
3. A well-told and credible look at the economic collapse from the perspective of one company's employees.
4. Margin Call is Wall Street for now. That a sexy Gordon Gekko-type villain is no longer anywhere to be found shows just how much worse things really are today.
5. At times, the film becomes just a series of static, over-determined conversations held in lofty offices and gleaming toilets.
6. Wily humor and sly observations about the lives of these high rollers are the highlights... It's when those give way to issues of morality that the film disappoints, just a little...
7. Maybe the financial collapse went down something like this...
8. In Margin Call, first time writer-director JC Chandor creates a humanizing insight into the lives of the bankers who discovered the fall of the economy.
9. Es casi imposible identificarse con alguno de los personajes. Y el director y guionista lo sabe, por eso dota a su ópera prima de una tensión propia de un thriller, y de una mirada cínica y desencantada.
10. Margin Call can't beat the street, missing the mark in a major way given the massive expectations.