Critic consensus:In its first non-Pixar CGI venture, Disney expends more effort in the technical presentation than in crafting an original storyline.

Numbered reviews:1. There's both a structural randomness and predictablility to 'Chicken Little,' which has no personality or original idea driving it.
2. The undercooked Chicken Little is a strain of cinematic salmonella, riddled with forced fun and forgettable characters.
3. Chicken Little will automatically cluck gleefully for its youthful audience. But for others, this bland bird will take time to roast.
4. By the time the sky really does start 'falling' -- courtesy of an alien invasion -- Chicken Little's frantic efforts to stay farm fresh have started to wear on the nerves.
5. Despite the aspirations of its scrappy hero, it does not stand out among the recent crop of computer-animated features. But it fits in just fine.
6. It's one of the most geekily enchanting things about Chicken Little, how it blends storybook sweetness... with kew-wel science-fiction notions...
7. Apparently, it has significant entertainment value for the intended demographic.
8. Unfortunately, this levity is paired with a truly painful father-son relationship.
9. The film is fine for kiddies who'll get a kick out of all the animal characters farting, burping and falling over each other.
10. The 3-D screenings add little to the experience and feel more like an afterthought than a technological innovation.


Critic consensus:The chemistry between leads David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson do live up to The X-Files' televised legacy, but the roving plot and droning routines make it hard to identify just what we're meant to believe in.

Numbered reviews:1. The truth is, they're boring now.
2. Perhaps they should have called it X and the City.
3. Though the mood of The X Files: I Want to Believe remains consistently funereal, the storytelling is all over the place.
4. Was this stuff always this bad? Or is this simply the fabled 'worst episode ever?'
5. David Duchovny's Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully are still chastely in love, the world is as dark and doomy as ever, and Billy Connolly, as a scurvy priest who may or may not be a visionary, steals the acting honors.
6. This is it?
7. The truth is, indeed, still out there. And when Carter finds it, may he heed its wisdom: Let go.
8. [S]cience fiction drama with the emphasis on the drama... [T]here are no monsters [here] except the all-too-human kind, and no demons except the all-too-familiar ones that plague us all.
9. The X-Files: I Want to Believe resembles those TV-series reunions that bring the cast of a hit together for a not-so-special occasion.
10. A complete waste of theater space.


Critic consensus:As a visually stunning tribute to lives lost in tragedy, World Trade Center succeeds unequivocally, and it is more politically muted than many of Stone's other works.

Numbered reviews:
1. It's a straightforward, respectful, carefully upbeat survival story and tribute to the victims, survivors and rescuers of that day five years ago that changed our world forever.
2. [A] humanist movie of enormous empathy.
3. With this unflinching account of that day, Stone has made the most important film of his long career.
4. Even when Stone is clumsy, he at least seems to recognize that he can't possibly re-create the experience of these policemen: The best he can do is put it onstage, reminding us that this happened to someone else and not to us.
5. The filmmaker and his colleagues have brought the sensibility of an old-fashioned Hollywood disaster movie, and a mediocre one at that.
6. Stone takes one of the most tragic events of this century and focuses on the hope, humanity and determination that also held sway amid the darkness.
7. Stone slyly sneaks virtuoso moments into his story, bringing a modest elegance to a script that frequently feels creakily old-fashioned.
8. The old Stone was not exactly a bargain, but he was never this pious or this conventional.
9. Stone and Berloff give us time to meditate on this disaster, finding optimism in its aftermath. No filmmakers will put together the whole puzzle surrounding that dreadful day, but they've handed us a crucial piece.
10. Weighing in on "World Trade Center" is difficult; it's well-crafted, but it's also sluggish and meek.