Critic consensus:Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a good yarn thanks to its well-matched leading men but overall stumbles duplicating the well-oiled thrills of the original.

Numbered reviews:1. Game of Shadows makes better use of director Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes on steroids" concept.
2. More Rambo than Miss Marple ... Audiences will flock to see a dizzying swirl of furious fisticuffs, blazing gunfights, and theater-rocking explosions. Me, I'll be home watching my Columbo box sets.
3. Fantastical, furious and really funny -- even better than the 2009 film which revived the Holmes franchise.
4. It's all bigger and louder and so much less.
5. There's no fun quite as shallow as the fun of watching actors goof with one another, which is pretty much the single card that A Game of Shadows has to play.
6. Same Victorian clutter, same overstuffed frames, same Guy Ritchie directorial hyperactivity.
7. If you liked the first film, you should like this one as well. It plays almost like a second half of a four-hour movie, after all.
8. You don't need a deerstalker and a magnifying glass to track the subtext of this fatiguing Arthur Conan Don't Ask-Don't Tell 'bromance.'
9. In an act of criminal negligence, Ritchie has wasted Robert Downey Jr. in a sequel that eliminates smarts in favor of relentless headbanging.
10. ... a singularly joyless endeavor, a murky mishmash of skullduggery, ho-hum CG and formulaic cliff-hanger escapes that would have been old hat around the time of 'The Great Train Robbery.'


Critic consensus:Juvenile even by Scary Movie standards, this fifth installment offers stale pop culture gags that generate few laughs.

Numbered reviews:1. A pitiful grab bag of awful with a torturous sense of humor, crash landing a formerly inoffensive franchise into hostile Friedberg/Seltzer territory.
2. If AIRPLANE! was Mad Magazine at its absolute best, a real genius work of insanity, SCARY MOVIE V is an issue you don't bother trying to get back after the teacher confiscates it.
3. The "Scary Movie" franchise has never been known for its highbrow comedy, but this latest installment feels especially juvenile and pointless.
4. There are opportunities to have a good time with this film, if you are a forgiving sort.
5. Spoofing movies ranging from Black Swan to Mama to Paranormal Activity, this installment of the profitable series is woefully, painfully unfunny.
6. Spoofs always break the rule of half-mocking something stale, but I had no idea we needed a minimum amount of time needed before a reference.
7. These movies grow shorter and less funny by the year.
8. When you find yourself wishing there was more Lindsay Lohan in a movie, you know it's bad. SCARY MOVIE 5 is so bad that a DJ spinning a pizza instead of a record is what passes for a sight gag. Or a woman having sex with a microwave...
9. If it's even possible, Scary Movie 5 is worse than its predecessors, reaching all new heights of stupidity and fall-flat comedy.
10. The best part of Scary Movie 5 -- not counting the part when it's over -- comes near the beginning.


Critic consensus:This latest Adam Sandler vehicle borrows shamelessly from It's A Wonderful Life and Back To The Future, and fails to produce the necessary laughs that would forgive such imitation.

Numbered reviews:
1. It is basically a lowbrow and secular rehash of A Christmas Carol, although Sandler creates a character more hateful than Ebenezer Scrooge.
2. The comic genius is evolving toward Bill Murray territory - that of a bright soul beaten and worn down by life, with a humorous shine tantalizingly repressed.
3. The only thing about this movie I didn't hate was Hasselhoff.
4. Those going in expecting Happy Gilmore Gets A Remote will be gravely disappointed.
5. There were times when I wanted a universal remote to fast-forward through repeated jokes about a dog having sex with a stuffed animal or children using four-letter words.
6. It's an unimaginative, mean-spirited affair that makes you hate yourself for laughing at it, and it's so devoid of anything close to wit, subtlety or sophistication.
7. Click sells itself as an Adam Sandler comedy full of immature humor (and it is), but the last 30 minutes are brilliant, heartbreaking and emotional.
8. Frank Capra is rolling over in his grave at the worthless gimmick that's needed to retell his classic story.
9. Sandler's fans may find some of his antics entertaining, but once the film turns on the waterworks, even they'll want to click away.
10. Instead of high concept turning into comedy gold with a touch of sentiment, we get a childish load of staleness that farts in the face of its Capraesque pursuit.