Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. (Director) Nichols creates the kind of quiet malevolence that Roman Polanski used to excel at.
2. There's a strong, unsettling sense of disease that runs through Take Shelter, the best drama of the year so far.
3. Shannon wonderfully modulates Nichols' portrait of a man whose mind and life seem to unravel before our eyes.
4. On rare occasions, a movie comes along that does genuine honor to Alfred Hitchcock. Take Shelter is such a movie. It could be subtitled "Take Shelter with Hitch."
5. Are his dreams a sign of things to come or are they simply the creation of an individual who is teetering on the brink of insanity?
6. In an era of empty entertainments, "Take Shelter" is built to last.
7. Take Shelter is a deeply unsettling movie.
8. Michael Shannon's spectacular performance grounds Take Shelter with a haunting realism.
9. Life is a double-edged sword. Be careful how you hold it.
10. Shannon is astounding, playing a good man pushed to the brink of sanity, maybe beyond. He portrays a sense of quiet desperation -- a feeling recognizable to many.

Here is the consensus of critics:Michael Shannon gives a powerhouse performance and the purposefully subtle filmmaking creates a perfect blend of drama, terror, and dread.

Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. It's a quasi-religious fable about a man haunted by the past and facing a profound moral and existential crisis in the present, and it's a dazzling display of virtuoso cinematic technique and showboat performances.
2. Lubezki's cinematography, paired with Antonio Sanchez's jazzy, percussion-heavy score, creates an atmosphere of explosive tension that lingers strongly, even throughout Birdman's more satirical and fantastical beats.
3. Birdman, more than most, seems a film that deserves a second viewing, not only to admire the work of Keaton and his co-stars, but to delve into its many layers.
4. Birdman is a tour de force, a heady mix of dark comedy and psychic meltdown with energy vibrating from every frame.
5. Iырrritu serves up a truly fanciful production that is long on characterization but woefully short in the realities of the theatre.
6. Birdman has wings, for certain, even if you find the feathers sticking in your throat now and then.
7. Michael Keaton's performance as ex-leading man Riggan Thomson sees this former star reborn.
8. It's a film no one expected but one for which we're utterly grateful.
9. While Keaton is a tour-de-force, Fight Club star Ed Norton is similarly rejuvenated as co-star Mike.
10. Even if you don't like Birdman, you will be unable to forget its unique ability to disguise meticulous, well-rehearsed craftsmanship as irresistible improvisation.

Here is the consensus of critics:A thrilling leap forward for director Alejandro Gonzрlez Iырrritu, Birdman is an ambitious technical showcase powered by a layered story and outstanding performances from Michael Keaton and Edward Norton.

Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Hypnotically dull, relentlessly downbeat, laughably predictable wail pitched to the cadence of a depressed fifteen-year-old's suicidal poetry.
2. Rarely does such high-profile talent serve such literate material.
3. A film whose cumulative emotional power takes viewers by surprise, capturing us unawares in its ability to move us as deeply as it does.
4. One of the best films of the year with its exquisite acting, inventive screenplay, mesmerizing music, and many inimitable scenes of tenderness, loss, discontent, and yearning.
5. Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain.
6. For all the pervasive tone of sadness in 'The Hours,' it is an uplifting film. Daldry keeps the sentiment dry and avoids clichés.
7. For all of its weaknesses, The Hours remains a seductive, haunting drama.
8. Like the best literature, it stays with you long after its conclusion.
9. It's super slow-moving to be sure, but that just makes soaking it up all that much more enjoyable ... like, well, a good book.
10. Hare manages to 'open up' the book by dramatizing the characters' inner turmoil exactly as he would have to on stage.

Here is the consensus of critics:The movie may be a downer, but it packs an emotional wallop. Some fine acting on display here.

Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. [A] compelling film.
2. The directors have assembled a veritable sonic museum of the band.
3. Dee Dee is the most humorous band member, as he remembers the halcyon days of pre-fame Forest Hills: 'We would hang out, sniff glue or smoke pot... listen to the Stooges...'
4. There is little in this film to interest those who are not groupies of the Ramones.
5. As fascinating as it is flawed.
6. For music fanatics and for Ramones fans, there's a sad story and a peek behind the creative process that made the band's trademark music.
7. A rough-hewn jewel of a documentary that chronicles the rise, demise and troublesome personal lives of the loud, fast New York City quartet synonymous with the term punk rock.
8. Offers a fascinating chronicle of the birth, glory days and waning years of a motorcycle-jacketed, bowl-haircutted quartet of middle-class geeks who unwittingly spawned the punk movement.
9. What audiences will want to talk about is the way the film reveals the quixotic human dynamic between the band members, the personal neuroses that simultaneously kept the group together and pulled it apart.
10. Gramaglia and Fields have uncovered plenty of good historical footage, and the interviews with band members, managers, friends and peer fans confirm not only how influential, but how beloved the Ramones were, particularly the ever-visible Joey.

Here is the consensus of critics:
Gabba gabba hey! With its focus on the groundbreaking work of the 1970s punk band The Ramones End of the Century makes a solid entry into the growing canon of documentaries that capture Punkology.