Critic consensus:Displaying Joe Strummer warts and all, The Future is Unwritten succeeds as both an engrossing documentary and a comprehensive examination of one of music's most legendary figures.

Numbered reviews:1. Suffused with clear-eyed affection for its subject and times, this is not your little brother's punk documentary.
2. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten is a film for fans -- really big fans. More-casual admirers, perhaps those whose only Strummer CD is the Clash's "London Calling," should probably stay away.
3. A remarkably well-detailed doc that proves 'Rock The Casbah' is not just that song from the cell phone commercials.
4. The end result is a documentary that feels very insider and exclusive... it's probably best suited to those who are already fans.
5. Julien Temple has assembled a complex portrait of a human being and the times in which he lived.
6. Temple's film offers a rich, detailed portrait of a commanding but idealistic Strummer against the backdrop of the do-it-yourself punk ethos of the late '70s.
7. The Future Is Unwritten does an ample job of capturing the many facets of Strummer, who was simultaneously self-effacing and and heroic, devoted and calculating, sensitive and brazen.
8. The Future Is Written is a loving testimonial to one of rock's true originals.
9. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten is that rarest of movie biographies: a warts-and-all exploration of the life and times of its subject.
10. Julian Temple has done cinematic justice to the punk humanist born John Graham Mellor.


Critic consensus:Trumbo celebrates the life and work of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo with measures of humor and sadness.

Numbered reviews:1. unimaginative ... rendering a film that should have been impassioned and full of life and humor into something static and dull.
2. Trumbo emerges as a son's bittersweet valentine to his old man, and a tribute to the senior Trumbo's resilience, wit, and outrage in the face of a national disgrace.
3. Peter Askin's stirring documentary Trumbo gives you reasons to cheer but also to weep.
4. More successful at evoking sympathy for Dalton Trumbo than offering a detailed study of the Red Scare vis-ŕ-vis the screenwriters known as the "Hollywood Ten," it nevertheless provides a fascinating introduction to the always-relevant topic.
5. The film only comes alive with archival footage of the HUAC hearings and interviews with Trumbo himself. When the letter-readers come on, it slows to a snails-pace.
6. The best way to learn about Trumbo is through his writing, which is spirited, dry, and utterly convinced of its truth
7. Family home movies and photos and archival clips round out the film, which holds its hero-worshiping to fairly tolerable levels.
8. It's Trumbo's words -- unfiltered and often unhinged -- that make this doc worth seeing.
9. What could have been a human- and Hollywood-interest film turns out to be a not very successful experiment.
10. Reflects the fun of crafting zesty prose and the pain of not being able to attach your real name to it.


Critic consensus:The Tunnel is both a tension-filled thriller and a riveting history lesson.

Numbered reviews:
1. Either as history at its most inspiring or moviemaking at its most exciting, The Tunnel is a trip.
2. It's so well told that you'll be biting your nails until the film's final few minutes.
3. It's a gripping great-escape yarn of the sort we don't see much anymore.
4. The Tunnel proved to be too exciting for mere broadcast
5. Richter gives a raw, frank but sophisticated account of the excruciating logistics of this great escape, and the appalling, inspiring blend of betrayal and courage that attended the group's herculean efforts.
6. A true story few people will know, and it's told with a warm, crafty efficiency that makes for wonderful entertainment.
7. Well-cast and sporadically gripping.
8. It is the kind of superbly crafted, intelligent entertainment -- a classic suspense thriller -- that nowadays is as welcome as it is rare.
9. This true story about one of the many tunnel escape attempts under the Berlin wall in the 60s provides all the excitement of an escape movie, given extra depth and resonance by its real life genesis... a superb film
10. Richter makes wonderful if obvious use of the wall and the tunnel as built-in metaphors for our struggle for human connection and dread of helplessness and change.