Critic consensus:A compelling documentary that humanizes the controversial, polarizing politician.

Numbered reviews:1. A thought-provoking documentary about Ralph Nader as a zealot for justice, consumer rights, and meaningful democracy.
2. An Unreasonable Man, easy on the eyes and stimulating to the mind, is well worth the two hours plus.
3. For liberals, An Unreasonable Man delivers an exciting look back at heady times.
4. An unflinching look at the rise and fall of one of the most influential figures of our times.
5. It does vividly capture the ambitious advocate as not just an outsider, but a stymied and stunned political pariah.
6. The documentary An Unreasonable Man is an admiring but hardly uncritical portrait of Ralph Nader and his 2000 presidential campaign.
7. Ultimately, Mantel and Skrovan achieve the goal of reminding a generation that grew up enjoying the protections that Nader had spearheaded. But they also frankly acknowledge that the very qualities that made him an incorruptible activist also blinded him.
8. If the film shows that few men are as unreasonable as Ralph Nader, it also shows that few have so succeeded in shaping their world: His legacy of progressive legislation will affect generations to come.
9. The film, directed by Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan, does a brilliant job of putting his 2000 run for president in context -- to show how consistent it was with everything he has stood for in his remarkable career.
10. A good mixture, but it all comes back to Nader's disputed sainthood and the debate is heavily stacked. It seems easy to like Nader and that's the problem: There's no serious conflict.


Critic consensus:Roving Mars is a decent thrill ride even when it starts feeling like a commercial plug for NASA's failing space program.

Numbered reviews:1. Unlike most IMAX films, which have a stately, almost static feeling, this movie has moments as immediate and involving as a feature film.
2. [Butler] caught the tense moments at NASA as scientists waited to see whether the robots would land safely. And he got amazing pictures from them of the red surface of Mars pocked with what may be dried-up lake basins and riverbeds.
3. ... a heartfelt tribute to a couple of robots.
4. [P]retty much a big, beautiful ad for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and so what?
5. While it does present a series of stirring images of the Red Planet, far too much of the film's already brief (40-minute) running time is consumed by shots of anxious-looking scientists and engineers peering intently at their computer monitors.
6. If this is the real Mars, we'll stick with the more vivid depiction of the planet from Total Recall, thank you very much.
7. Manages to present scientific inquiry as an emotional journey, during which two exquisitely designed machines go from being gears and hinges to the embodiment of our best hopes and dreams.
8. Read no more if you want to grow up to be an astronaut; here are 40 minutes of nonstop robots, spaceships and bright-eyed NASA geeks enthusing about tangles of circuitry and nifty hydraulics.
9. Placing this 45-minute commercial for the space program on overpriced IMAX screens isn't doing so much a public service as, well, business as usual.
10. The movie is more compelling than exciting with one exception: the kind of rocket blast-off sequence for which IMAX screens were seemingly invented.


Critic consensus:A traditional genre western, Appaloosa sets itself apart with smart psychology, an intriguing love triangle, and good chemistry between the leads.

Numbered reviews:
1. The film is more trenchant character study than thrilling showdown, and it confounds as many generic expectations as it fulfills.
2. It isn't a bad film, but the pacing drags it down to the level of just another horse opera when it could have been so much more.
3. The first hour bored me nearly to tears, but I'm glad I stuck it out, since the last half hour is fresh, diverting and original in the context of a neo-Western. Or a neo anything.
4. A gentle, warmly human and quietly compelling western with a wry sense of humour and some engaging performances from a group of fine actors.
5. Viggo Mortensen's brilliantly cool performance engenders enough good will to see "Appaloosa" through its pokey meandering to an intriguingly philosophical conclusion: a look at modern outsourcing, capitalism and progress through a Western prism.
6. A fine cast produces a surprisingly low-key outing. It sports a plot like a Western from 45 years ago, but pacing familiar from LONESOME DOVE.
7. Ed Harris does it better than anybody.
8. It was at times incredibly slow and even poorly edited, and I've never understood the appeal of Renee Zelwegger.
9. No ordinary oater.
10. The film's subtle humor and detailed character studies reflect careful attention to detail and superb craftsmanship.