question: It's a pleasure to see Hollywood produce a romance this refreshingly adult, but Love and Other Drugs struggles to find a balance between its disparate plot elements.

numbered reviews: 1. "Love & Other Drugs" may have one foot in comedy and the other in the sickness-of-the-week genre, but that's the way life plays out sometimes.
2. An overstated (dialogue-wise and visually-the movie's mostly close-ups) and underwhelming trip. And for a movie all about dickishness, its actual masking of Gyllenhaal's dick-twice with a cushion, as if out of a bad British sex farce-is limply dishonest.
3. It isn't bashful at all, incorporating plenty of sex and humour; you'll feel like you're sleeping with them too.
4. For it's hard work, sadly the film's two heartfelt, emotional scenes are wholly undermined by some awful soundtracking.
5. I ended up wondering how a screenplay this messy had ever gone into production, let alone attracted two actors of this quality.
6. A mess, but one of those messes where it's at least fun to debate the different ways in which it got it so wrong and could have been great.
7. Interesting ideas lurk, tantalisingly, underneath the romcom formula and yet every brave move Zwick and his co-writers make is countered by something weak and formulaic, as if in apology.
8. Eight months after health-care reform was signed into law, Universal Pictures courageously weighs in with a watered-down satire of the pharmaceutical industry.
9. At least we now know why Anne Hathaway's co-presenting this year's Oscars. She's not gonna make it to that stage any other way.
10. A redeemed-lout-and-sacrificial-lamb weepie, complete with a shameless revival of the dreaded Ali MacGraw Disease


question: Mickey Rourke gives a performance for the ages in The Wrestler, a richly affecting, heart-wrenching yet ultimately rewarding drama.

numbered reviews: 1. It's a hell of a performance -- and a hellish one -- in a film that isn't entirely sure what to do with it.
2. The balance and nuance of this portrait hold realities that perhaps only Rourke can fully understand.
3. Rourke and Tomei bring a tender, lived-in honesty to their sad roles.
4. Director, Darren Aronofsky, and the writer, Robert D. Siegel, have turned the story of this washed-up faux gladiator into a film of authentic beauty and commanding consequence.
5. The movie feeds off Rourke, who plays a genuinely decent guy who never lets his dawning self-awareness interfere with his responsibility to give the fans a show.
6. The Wrestler is about one thing - Mickey Rourke - and that makes the movie both fascinating and limited.
7. Darren Aronofsky tells a solid character-driven drama with simplicity and impact.
8. Director Aronofsky gets all the details right in a movie that feels like a tribute to so many who were gone too soon: Curt Hennig, Road Warrior Hawk, Rick Rude, et al...this one's for you.
9. The best wrestling movie ever made. I'm sorry, No Holds Barred, you've been topped.
10. Director Darren Aronofsky puts himself up as a major contender with this film, based on a really excellent and uncompromising screenplay by Robert D. Siegel.


question: More than a movie star murder mystery, Hollywoodland takes it slow in order to reveal the intriguing details of the rise and fall of superstar fame.

numbered reviews: 1. Like Ben from Bennifer, George Reeves aspired to be a Great Actor, but was weighed down by audience expectations. Affleck does a terrific job with this role.
2. Tentando evocar a mesma atmosfera sufocante de Los Angeles %u2013 Cidade Proibida, surge como pбlida (literalmente) imitaзгo do excepcional trabalho de Curtis Hanson.
3. Middle-aged angst - and not the mystery of Reeves' unsolved death - lies at the heart of Hollywoodland.
4. It's Affleck's ghost of film future. Watch his hurt-glazed eyes as he sits in the screening of From Here to Eternity while all around him people laugh at 'Superman' pretending to be someone else.
5. It's worth seeing for Affleck alone, deftly communicating the distance between the put-on cardboard debonairness of this hunk-about-town and the gnawing uncertainties beneath his Superman outfit.
6. Outside of the novelty of seeing Ben Affleck assaying a dramatic role, there isn't much in Hollywoodland to keep us hooked.
7. It is not just that people die in the film, its the way their souls get mauled while they are still alive.
8. Stark, probing and beautifully crafted, Hollywoodland is a slow-burning mystery/thriller that intriguingly jumps along with each suspenseful frame.
9. Despite a stellar cast, Coulter and screenwriter Paul Bernbaum can’t decide whether to plumb the depths of 'noir' or tug at the heartstrings of failed ambition.
10. Starts with artful delusions before dribbling into nothingness


question: One of the most compelling and entertaining zombie films ever, Dawn of the Dead perfectly blends pure horror and gore with social commentary on bourgeois society.

numbered reviews:
1. An epic among horror films.
2. This is George A. Romero's best film.
3. As a blend of horror, action, tension, and humour, it stands in a class of its own.
4. An effort which redefines the genre.
5. An unsettling and unforgettable snapshot of life among the zombies.
6. Romero's apocalyptic vision looks more like prophecy than fiction.
7. I still get queasy thinking about the biker and the blood pressure machine!
8. Undoubtedly the zombie movie to end 'em all.
9. Between atrocities the movie has its funny moments and funny lines. It's just difficult to relish the humor when you're dripping in so much gore.
10. Dawn of the Dead's most unsettling aspect is in how it shows us how little we've changed as a culture.