1. Rahim, with only a few film and TV roles behind him, gives a performance of startling force and subtlety.
2. Gritty, accomplished take on the genre, but falls into rote patterns that are only slightly disrupted by a brief foray into the supernatural.
3. Although these aren't characters with whom filmgoers will have an instinctive rooting interest, Rahim and Arestrup imbue them with fascinating nuances and, in Rahim's case, surprising vulnerability.
4. Writer/director Jacques Audiard is an intensely focused filmmaker with a gift for getting us inside the heads of ambivalent young men.
5. French director Jacques Audiard's grim, disturbing prison picture slices through gangster clichés to hit raw nerve.
6. In Jacques Audiard's haunting prison drama A Prophet, we watch a young man transformed by life behind bars.
7. A really satisfying, meaty film.
8. Jacques Audiard's tense, brutal crime pic is a triumph of writing, acting (by a mostly amateur cast salted in just the right spots by professionals), and scene-setting.
9. A Prophet solidifies director Jacques Audiard's standing as a criminal mastermind whose work leaves genre classifications in the dust.
10. A well-made gangster tale with parallels to Brian De Palma's Scarface.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Featuring an impressive star turn by newcomer Tahar Rahim, A Prophet is a French gangster film filled with arresting, immediate details.

1. Daddy Day Camp is a recruiting poster for kids, insisting that there's no domestic problem that military values can't solve.
2. Poison ivy would be less painful.
3. Daddy Day Camp suffers all the near-classic sequel handicaps.
4. Memo to Cuba: if you're offered the lead in a sequel to Murphy's Pluto Nash, say no.
5. The minstrelsy of Gooding Jr.'s performance is abhorrent but no more offensive than the showboating that won him the Oscar.
6. A lazy, juvenile, starkly unfunny and consistently unrelatable family film.
7. The actors obviously see the movie only as a paycheck, but the check should have a note at the bottom that says, 'Shame on you!'
8. By now you've seen most of the visual gags. A bus drives into a building. An outhouse explodes.
9. Gates and Rae are game, but not funny in the least. The kids are stereotypes, and not particularly amusing ones.
10. A Cuba Gooding, Jr. kind of boyz in the woods career trajectory switch.
What is the critic consensus?
A: A mirthless, fairly desperate family film, Daddy Day Camp relies too heavily on bodily functions for comedic effect, resulting in plenty of cheap gags but no laughs.

1. From the opening moments it is clear that we have the nearest modern equivalent to a Western: men of quiet virtue going skyward, leaving the tawdry world of log-rolling politicians behind.
2. Consistently compelling, capturing all the ambiguity and tension of the book.
3. The Right Stuff is a humdinger. Full of beauty, intelligence and excitement, this big-scale look at the development of the US space program and its pioneering aviators provides a fresh, entertaining look back at the recent past.
4. Educational, exciting action, great acting.
5. Historical drama as well as vastly entertaining adventure.
6. Though critically acclaimed, Philip Kaufman's superbly realized adventure about the early Space Age was a commercial flop, due to its satirical tone and unfortunately close association with the presidential candidacy of John Glenn.
7. History, melodrama, comedy and satire are skilfully combined in this consistently exciting adventure. Visually and dramatically it rarely sags, there's a vivid array of characters and though it's a film with issues, these never eclipse the human drama.
8. A great movie that unfortunately failed to attract audiences back in '83, this adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book about astronauts pays tribute to what we would like to believe represents the American spirit: hard work, perseverance, camaraderie and vision.
9. One of the scattered handful of truly great American movies in the first half of the 1980s.
10. Moviegoers seeking a grand yet edifying entertainment, right-stuffed with what Kaufman calls "seriousness of subject matter and a wild humor that comes out of left field," now know where to look...
What is the critic consensus?
A: The Right Stuff packs a lot of movie into its hefty running time, spinning a colorful, fact-based story out of consistently engaging characters in the midst of epochal events.

1. Lee is sensational on all counts in a final performance that brims over with athleticism and ardor.
2. Follows an entirely predictable path, but does so with style and intensity.
3. One of the most stunning, yet haunting, films ever made
4. Visually, it's a treat; characterisation is sharp, particularly the nicely defined villains; and the action scenes, though soft-pedalled, still pack a satisfying crunch.
5. Everything you ever wanted in a mindless revenge flick.
6. Bursting with startling images, eclectic staging, and gorgeous neo-gothic set design...it looks and feels truer to its roots than any dozen Batmans or Dick Tracys.
7. It is a stunning work of visual style - the best version of a comic book universe I've seen - and Brandon Lee clearly demonstrates in it that he might have become an action star, had he lived.
8. If he had to die so soon, this movie is the best and most appropriate sendoff Lee could have hoped for.
9. If The Crow is forgettable entertainment, it can stand as an eerie epitaph for an actor who looked like he was on the way to better things.
10. [Features] a heartfelt romantic core and some handsome, acrobatic action sequences that do justice to Lee's undoubted martial mastery.
What is the critic consensus?
A:
Filled with style and dark, lurid energy, The Crow is an action-packed visual feast that also has a soul in the performance of the late Brandon Lee.