Critic consensus:Though the film may not delve as deep as some would prefer, More Than a Game is an inspiring documentary featuring likable youngsters, a positive message, and some exciting in-game footage.

Numbered reviews:1. There's no "I" in team. But there are two in stultifying.
2. Belman doesn't look into the bigger problems of James' team jet-setting across the country during the school year, or the spectacle allowed to build up around him.
3. keeps the hype at bay long enough to create a story about real characters, rather than indulging in glorified player profiles.
4. It's an inspiring tale not just for lovers of basketball, although the games featured are so thrilling and tense that it's a challenge to remain sitting placidly in one's seat.
5. Deeply inspiring. That said, for every young kid who sees More Than a Game and thinks they are the next LeBron James -- it should be mandatory to watch 1994's Hoop Dreams.
6. Sometimes the narrative suffers from a surfeit of hindsight -- earnest sermonizing on the importance of friendship, family and dedication in the boys' development. The sermons are worthy ones, though, and Mr. Belman's film dramatizes what it preaches.
7. 'More Than a Game' is a riveting, emotional and inspirational documentary that captures the ups and downs of five young men who bonded as friends and teammates.
8. Somewhat engaging and well-edited with stylish cinematography and great music, but it ultimately falls short in terms of offering insightful and provocative revelations.
9. The footage is terrific, and all the guys make for charismatic heroes. But Belman barely addresses the stories happening off the court.
10. Teamwork, not victory: That's the message of More Than a Game and it's a worthy one that makes for exciting filmmaking.


Critic consensus:Funny, informative, and occasionally sad, Good Hair is a provocative look at the complex relationship between African Americans and their hair.

Numbered reviews:1. Who defines good? This doc never quite finds the source, but it sure shows us the damage it's done to wallets, egos and follicles.
2. The subject matter would still be fairly interesting without Rock's involvement, but the comedian brings a accessibility to the material that no amount of facts and figures can replace.
3. Chris keep the action rocking, the beautiful women and not so handsome men in the cast sometimes matching his humor, joke for joke.
4. Rock never misses a beat and here's hoping he continues the documentary chapter of his career. There's nothing wrong with a little competition for Michael Moore.
5. Good Hair is a raucous and rigorous inquiry into the subject of African-American hair -- the stigmas, the secrets, the shocking price of maintenance -- that gets at universal but rarely discussed truths about black femininity.
6. A wise and wacky dye-laughing doc about black female high maintenance hair that is no laughing matter, the movie finds a PG-13 Rock channeling Michael Moore, while nearly tumbling into a jumbo vat of processor goo.
7. That many of these hairstyles derive from standards of beauty laid down by white tastemakers is a question that hangs over Good Hair.
8. [A] breezy, superficial doc.
9. Whether you have good hair or not, there's plenty to appreciate in Chris Rock's rollicking documentary about what goes on when African-American women hit the salon.
10. Rock takes aim at the truth and humor of this potent cultural question with a sharp wit and lively curiousity, even if he doesn't pursue vigorously enough its uglier side.


Critic consensus:In spite of a promising concept and a charmingly brazen performance from Cameron Diaz, Bad Teacher is never as funny as it should be.

Numbered reviews:
1. Diaz's game charms are semi-squandered on a script that's two-thirds filler. Not quite detention, but on thin ice.
2. It's brisk, puerile fun with added charm thanks to the game cast. A bit like watching your teachers make twits of themselves.
3. Where the screenplay mostly falters is populating the school with unproductive supporting characters.
4. Screenwriters Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg fare better here than with their first film, "Year One." But like I said in my review of that film, if these guys are truly penning "Ghostbusters III," they have a lot to learn.
5. Diaz has a girlish charm that means she gets away with a series of cynical pranks, even though she's not quite as big and clever as she thinks she is.
6. Cameron Diaz eats the screen in Bad Teacher and the screen says "thank you".
7. Kasdan bundles together a mishmash of high-school movie clichés and off-colour toilet humour, with the flimsy plot and faltering pace providing far too few laughs.
8. Broader than Bad Santa and less consistently funny, it's still gleefully rude, crude and often a lot of fun.
9. "Bad Teacher" immediately brings "Bad Santa" to mind and suffers by the comparison.
10. Bad Teacher is more like a rebellious teen acting out against her parents than a truly rotten to the core degenerate kid. I guess you could say it's Kim Kardashian instead of being Lindsay Lohan.