Critic consensus:Narratively bold and visually striking, The Seventh Seal brought Ingmar Bergman to the world stage -- and remains every bit as compelling today.

Numbered reviews:1. This is a film which absolutely deserves its status as a cinematic masterpiece and an opportunity to see it on a big screen should not be missed.
2. so densely packed with both visual and verbal images that it is a cinematic equivalent of poetry
3. Haunting and beautiful.
4. It manages some powerful images, but it feels a bit too calculated to really get under the skin.
5. Essentially intellectual, yet emotionally stimulating, too, it is as tough -- and rewarding -- a screen challenge as the moviegoer has had to face this year.
6. Jons and Plog converse about how Lisa should be killed, as all women, for their deception, harking back to the garden of Eden.
7. Almost hypnotic in its power, it's a film that washes away all the parodying it has received over the years, emerging as fresh and startling today as it did nearly 50 years ago.
8. Starkly existential, boldly poetic, slow and grim has haunted film aficionados, baffled and bored college students, inspired innumerable parodists, and challenged both believers and unbelievers for nearly half a century.
9. Easily, one of the greatest films ever made.
10. Great existentialism and morbid humor. Fantastic performances.


Critic consensus:Mr. Holmes focuses on the man behind the mysteries, and while it may lack Baker Street thrills, it more than compensates with tenderly wrought, well-acted drama.

Numbered reviews:1. The ponderous pace and initial lack of focus will prove testing to some but this is a slow, steady film that builds in power almost imperceptibly, working its way deep under your skin.
2. A scintillatingly humane drama that's structured cleverly using the tropes of the traditional Holmes story yet taking the character in directions where he can rue his lack of imagination in a world where he functioned so ably as a coldly logical thinker.
3. None of this is edge-of-the-seat stuff, but Bill Condon (whose own father was a detective) directs with a sure feel for period and mood, and while it's very much McKellen's show, he is surrounded by a terrific supporting cast.
4. Holmes has been exhumed once again, in a long, slightly dull, tasteful British-Sunday-afternoon adaptation.
5. Mr. Holmes may not feature virtuoso displays of deductive prowess. Its elegiac ode to aging, however, is no less compelling than the more youthful reimaginings of Holmes, of which there have been so many of late.
6. Although sitting through this seems a good cure for insomnia, it has its moments. 12 year old Parker comes through with a sparkling performance, upstaging 75 year old McKellen, who expertly captures what Sherlock would probably have been like.
7. McKellen dazzles...Mr. Holmes spins a tale about the falsely drawn lines between stories and our perceptions of real life, between celebrity image and genuine persona, and between upper and lower classes.
8. Honors the Arthur Conan Doyle legacy as much as the engrossing BBC series starring Benedict Cumberbatch -- and certainly more than those daft action romps featuring Robert Downey Jr. as Indiana Holmes.
9. Mr. Holmes is a slow-moving film, but it's beautiful in its movement.
10. A story about an old man striving to make the best of the remains of the day, 'Mr. Holmes' succeeds most of all through forceful performances by Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada and spunky junior cast member Milo Parker.


Critic consensus:Aside from its clichéd resolution, Disturbia is a tense, subtle thriller with a noteworthy performance from Shia LaBeouf.

Numbered reviews:
1. LaBeouf, a soulful-eyed wiseguy with a complex emotional repertoire, keeps the movie interesting even after utter predictability sets in.
2. Okay, so DreamWorks has remade Rear Window with teens, but could it actually be good? Welcome back to the edge of your seat.
3. as an homage to old-fashioned suspense films, you could do a lot worse
4. ...what the director gets right - very right in the move's first two acts - is the ways kids relate and interact in a modern world where iPods and laptops are ubiquitous, where a lot of the world is reducible to digital blips.
5. Rear Window gets a facelift for the iPod generation.
6. Disturbia isn't your first choice this weekend if you're in your 20s or older, but for the crowd who are about the same age as Shia and the gang, this is great Friday night material.
7. If not perfection, "Disturbia" achieves something more than most modern thrillers - the right to describe itself in that genre and a few others. This hodgepodge homage becomes stupid and shrill in its final reel, but it's a nifty good time.
8. LaBeouf and Roemer have a frisky chemistry, and the always-reliable Morse is a delicious devil.
9. Rear Window redone for a more paranoid age, an age that embraces its paranoia as The New Normal, and not something to be disturbiaed about at all.
10. Crisp performances, a creepy bad guy, absorbing plot twists, capable direction, and a script that has some telling points to make about the way we saturate ourselves with media make this thriller, like Kale's neighbors, very watchable.