question: A well-acted and thrilling coming-of-age tale that captures a child awakening to the frightening world of adults.

numbered reviews: 1. [I'm Not Scared] is a nicely crafted coming of age film by Salvatores and he deftly shapes the story into an appealing package.
2. Connects everything in a lovely and terrifying way.
3. Salvatores' classically illustrative treatment should open arthouse doors for the visually sumptuous production.
4. It offers a fresh, stylish, and considerably more intelligent treatment of familiar genre material.
5. I'm Not Scared isn't a perfect film, but Petriccione's cinematography and Cristiani's performance make it well worth seeing.
6. Odd coming-of-age movie is gorgeously shot and emotionally involving, and features some truly exceptional performances from its young cast.
7. A well-crafted cross-breed that utilizes cruel power-plays of both youngsters and adults to support the ominous mood of a first-rate thriller.
8. A beautiful, exciting and challenging film about survival and a child's cold realization that adults don't always have the right answers.
9. Haunting and suspenseful.
10. Rana's anxiety, stacked on top of that of the politically tense region, creates a pitched emotional drama made more gripping by its real-world setting.


question: Funny, moving, and beautifully acted, The Descendants captures the unpredictable messiness of life with eloquence and uncommon grace.

numbered reviews: 1. A beautifully touching, tragic and amusing follow-up film from the director of Sideways.
2. The Descendants manages to even surpass those stratospheric expectations most fans will have walking into the theatre.
3. The Descendants is humane, decent, and close to real quality.
4. People looking for a good lei would be wise to say aloha to 'The Descendants,' Alexander Payne's Hawaiian-set luau in which laughter and tears combine for a cinematic feast.
5. The Descendants is an exercise in why women are such horrible, despicable shrews. When this film isn't demonising its female characters for daring to be unhappy in their marriage, it's condescending them for showing too much emotion...
6. A truthful, warm-hearted, deeply moving film about loss, about death, about legacies and, yeah, family.
7. Mr. Payne's undeniable knack for naturalism makes "The Descendants" a wholly persuasive and heartfelt experience.
8. I enjoyed Clooney's performance enormously without ever buying it for a second.
9. (Clooney) is at the top of his game in his scenes alone with the comatose Elizabeth. Asking questions that are unable to be answered, his pain at his loss and her betrayal is heartbreaking.
10. Here's where I am right now: The Descendants is the best movie of 2011. It is the movie of the year, in many ways beyond its simple superlative overall excellence.


question: Waste of a good cast. For a movie about bike racing, it never gets up to speed.

numbered reviews: 1. Biker Boyz leaves The Fast and the Furious eating its dust.
2. "Biker Boyz" is not a pretty picture.
3. As films go, it's as bad as an Elvis movie some of the time and better than an Elvis movie, but not by much, the rest of the time.
4. An endurance-testing racing drama, Biker Boyz is wildly overdirected, and its slight story feels more padded than a rubber room.
5. The jolting stunts and competitive races deliver all the excitement you'd want. You'll be disappointed only if you insist on a plot and complex characters.
6. It's too long and self-consciously progressive to be entertaining, but it's too well-intentioned to be dismissed altogether.
7. Biker Boyz is the kind of movie Howard Hawks would have made if he'd lived long enough to feel the heat of hip-hop's impact on the culture at large.
8. A dreary, overlong, unfocused bore that tries to make up in restless, hand-held camera work for what it lacks in drama, humor or any semblance of psychological truth.
9. It isn't good, certainly, but despite its numerous faults, it's a surprisingly entertaining mishmash of genres and cliches.
10. Though the bikes are fast, the drama idles, with corny characters taking themselves more seriously than heads of state negotiating arms treaties.


question: A crueler, darker, raunchier carbon copy of the first installment, The Hangover Part II lacks the element of surprise -- and most of the joy -- that helped make the original a hit.

numbered reviews:
1. It feels a little bit like that fourth dirty martini - not a good idea at the time, and probably to be regretted later.
2. Oh, what a headache-inducing, unapologetic money grab we have in "The Hangover Part II."
3. This is a faded copy of its predecessor, only raunchier (if you can imagine) and with better scenery.
4. Somebody must have roofied me. I left The Hangover Part II feeling dazed and abused, wondering how bad things happened to such a good comedy.
5. Sluggish, erratic attempt to duplicate the first, better movie.
6. "The Hangover Part II" is such a complete copy of the original 2009 hit comedy that I'd be surprised if the writers even bothered to create a new Microsoft Word file when they wrote it.
7. If there's such thing as plagiarizing your own work, Hangover Part II is the best example. Also, for those folks who drink to get plastered, fist pump at the club, splurge on a hooker and say racial epithets for fun - you've finally found your franchise!
8. We all enjoyed ourselves during that first movie. But now ... well, the hangover has begun.
9. According to Phillips, the 'Part II' in the title is a nod to the second Godfather, which matched the genius of its forerunner. Ironically, his own sequel offer is one you should refuse.
10. Loud, dumb, occasionally obnoxious but truly, unashamedly hilarious.