1. Demonstrates why nowadays the best thing you can say about an American movie is that it plays like a French film.
2. Fontaine indulges her signature style, creating a carefully measured film -- the kind whose impact slowly sneaks up on its audience and haunts them long after leaving the theatre.
3. Chillingly prosaic.
4. How I Killed My Father is one of those art house films that makes you feel like you're watching an iceberg melt -- only it never melts.
5. What makes How I Killed My Father compelling, besides its terrific performances, is Fontaine's willingness to wander into the dark areas of parent-child relationships without flinching.
6. A compelling French psychological drama examining the encounter of an aloof father and his chilly son after 20 years apart.
7. It's a tour de force, written and directed so quietly that it's implosion rather than explosion you fear.
8. Exquisitely nuanced in mood tics and dialogue, this chamber drama is superbly acted by the deeply appealing veteran Bouquet and the chilling but quite human Berling.
9. Fontaine's direction, especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera, creates sheerly cinematic appeal.
10. Bouquet gives a performance that is masterly.
Consensus: How I Killed My Father is a penetrating character study of father-son ties.
1. Worthy, handsomely mounted, but highly conventional and ultimately dull.
2. The film opens with an acknowledgment that it can't do justice to an entire life but that it will content itself with capturing the spirit of the man.
3. [The world] really needs this film.
4. An epic biopic, over three hours in length, Gandhi captures the spirit of the man and his struggles.
5. Ben Kingsley is nothing short of mesmerizing in the title role.
6. Both script and camera serve only as a canvas upon which the masterful Ben Kingsley paints a touchingly lifelike picture of one of the greatest men in history.
7. An informative and enjoyable movie.
8. In playing Gandhi, an actor must be less concerned with physical verisimilitude than with spiritual presence, and here Kingsley is nothing short of astonishing.
9. Attenborough's crowning achievement as a director.
10. Richard Attenborough's Gandhi is every bit as sumptuous as everyone had expected.
Consensus: Director Richard Attenborough is typically sympathetic and sure-handed, but it's Ben Kingsley's magnetic performance that acts as the linchpin for this sprawling, lengthy biopic.
1. You won't want to wait an hour after eating your popcorn to jump into this surfing-culture doc. But you may have to hang on to your seat as board-riding daredevils tackle the humongous waves of Hawaii's North Shore and other dangerous places.
2. The waves get progressively higher in Stacy Peralta's overlong but entertaining historical surfing documentary.
3. While the movie might not have as much social context as its predecessor, it's just as fun.
4. Magnificent if overlong.
5. Even those who've never waxed a board will be engaged and amazed.
6. This is vicarious daredevilry at its best.
7. [T]his film ranks right up there with last year's Step Into Liquid as a top surf doc.
8. While not quite as exuberant as his previous feature documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys, skater-turned-filmmaker Stacy Peralta brings the same level of respect and enthusiasm to the subject of surfing.
9. Surfing's seeming purity was spoiled by pop phenomena that suggested all the cute guys and gals rode rear-projection waves without mussing their hair-dos.
10. Peralta shows himself to be something of a big-wave challenger here by breathing in bigger gulps of geography, history and culture.

Consensus: A great addition to the existing surfing documentaries.