Critic consensus:Scary, suspenseful, and viscerally thrilling, Halloween set the standard for modern horror films.

Numbered reviews:1. Responsible for jump-starting Jamie Lee Curtis's career, this one so thoroughly and thoughtfully exploited American angst that it's no wonder we had to sit through a slew of derivative slasher flicks for the better part of the next decade.
2. Considered by many to be a modern horror classic, Halloween succeeds through simplicity.
3. Halloween (1978) is a genuinely scary, stylistic and tasteful, extremely well-crafted slasher/horror classic from young film director John Carpenter
4. Perfect entertainment for the night of October 31st in any year.
5. flawless for what it is: a completely immersive, visceral dynamo of stylistic belly-jiggling and spine-shivering.
6. Halloween remains untouched -- a modern classic of the most horrific kind.
7. One of the first and the flat-out best of that ghetto of the horror film genre, the slasher movie.
8. It's hard to get behind a main character who's so unexciting. But maybe Michael Myers is the real main character. In which case, mission accomplished: I'm freaked out.
9. One of the scariest movies ever made.
10. Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller, a movie so violent and scary that, yes, I would compare it to Psycho.


Critic consensus:As simple and authentic as the gritty South Philly invirons in which it's set in, Invincible sends a uplifting and heartfelt message packed with an athletic enthusiasm that shouldn't be missed.

Numbered reviews:1. For all its paint-by-numbers plotting, there's nothing unduly irritating about Invincible, either in execution or in marketing -- it's precisely the film it was meant to be.
2. A conventional Disney story of an ordinary guy striving to achieve his sports dream, full of uplift and warmth. (Think of The Rookie and Miracle.)
3. The genre shows serious signs of wear in this needlessly fictionalized feature about Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender who improbably won a spot on the Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.
4. The most remarkable accomplishment of Invincible is to make a mid-'70s musical soundtrack sound spectacular.
5. [Wahlberg] makes Vince the kind of modest, aw-shucks guy worth rooting for, which is what makes Invincible a winner.
6. If this movie doesn't make you want to stand up and cheer you probably don't have a pulse. A rousing achievement on every level.
7. There's a danger in reducing pictures like this to the sum of their lessons, at the expense of recognizing them as satisfying, if flawed, genre exercises.
8. Wahlberg and the rest of the solid cast sell this ESPN equivalent of a Lifetime movie.
9. There's an air of disbelief onscreen as to what's going on, and everyone is so busy preparing for the fall that we all know is going to come but doesn't, that makes this not seem like the fairy tale it's supposed to be.
10. Invincible does nothing to improve on the already very tired sports underdog theme.


Critic consensus:It isn't quite the breath of fresh air that Iron Man was, but this sequel comes close with solid performances and an action-packed plot.

Numbered reviews:
1. Delivers the visuals that the audience came for.
2. Iron Man 2 is fun, unchallenging and inoffensive entertainment.
3. Iron Man 2 provides more entertainment, guilt-free, than anything you're likely to see this summer.
4. Has it finally happened? Hard as it is to type, Robert Downey Jr. may have reached obnoxiousness.
5. Twice the snark, half the fun. The original's wit and energy shrivel into countless subplots and so little excitement that the sequel barely qualifies as an action movie.
6. A series of carefully-planned, effects-heavy sequences strung together with slapdash storytelling, underdeveloped character ideas and the occasional funny line of dialogue.
7. Big, empty and dying: is it Tony Stark or the Iron Man franchise itself? Director Jon Favreau has taken great pains to insure Justin Theroux's script doesn't get bogged down by silly matters like mortality.
8. If you listen and read closely, the positive reviews will be cloaking their praise of Iron Man 2 in rationalizations, rather than letting it flow unfettered.
9. The big problem with Iron Man 2, maybe, is that it so dutifully gives the people what they want, instead of giving them what they didn't know they wanted.
10. It's the promiscuously talented Downey who adds the grace notes that make Iron Man 2 something to remember.