Critic consensus:Traditional in form yet effective in execution, this taut thriller updates the "danger on a train" scenario with atmospheric sense.

Numbered reviews:1. Transsiberian has more twists and turns in it than the real-life, extensive train route that gives this independently produced suspense-thriller its name.
2. ...a tight and terse thriller.
3. This is a slow, deliberate and carefully thought out piece for adults who like to savour rather than devour their thrills
4. The limitations of its human characters aside, the movie has a terrific feel for the chilly, remote, attentively portrayed character of its environment.
5. Takes a more cerebral route, toying with your expectations only to give you something else, whispering hints of what fate might have in store for the characters after the credits roll.
6. Paranoia is right on track in this sinister, trapped-on-a-train thriller.
7. Thrilling ice-cold thriller.
8. This diverting effort from writer/director Brad Anderson is a generally satisfying fish-out-of-water thriller in which two squeaky-clean Americans find themselves caught up in a web of death, drugs and disappearances.
9. Transsiberian is a model of audience manipulation, a slow-fuse thriller that builds its suspense gradually, in increments, until it has becomes close to unbearable. Then it pushes things just a little further, until you're squirming in your seat.
10. Doesn't deserve a place among the classic train thrillers, but it offers enough cinematic amenities to be worth booking passage. And you won't need a sleeping compartment.


Critic consensus:Memories of Murder blends the familiar crime genre with social satire and comedy, capturing the all-too human desperation of its key characters.

Numbered reviews:1. For a film about women getting brutally attacked and dispatched, the movie has no sense of urgency or underlying dread.
2. Achieves an unlikely but ultimately successful blend of blunt-force comedy and desperate investigation.
3. The script is as sloppy as Song (Kang-ho)'s unkempt cop, sprinkled with intriguing ideas and imaginative details that, like the investigation, simply get lost in blind alleys.
4. What's most remarkable about it is the way Bong builds real suspense and plays the chilling moments straight while leaving himself room for nonsense and horseplay.
5. These are no gritty 'Dirty Harry' cops, nor are they kooky Keystone Kops. You know what they are? They're Columbo - if Columbo were the schlemiel he always pretends to be.
6. Horribly, gorily fascinating and slightly unfulfilling
7. Manages to transcend the popular and cliched genre by focusing on the emotional toll dealing with such crimes has on the detectives.
8. A refreshingly mature thriller that succeeds in its ambitious attempt to blend quips and killings.
9. Uneven movie has tonal problems.
10. Fledgling director Bong Joon-ho received the best new director award at the San Sebastian Film Festival and he shows a deft, talented hand at the helm.


Critic consensus:The one joke premise is stretched a bit thin in this messy sequel, but a few laughs can be had here and there.

Numbered reviews:
1. Analyze That is successful, thanks almost entirely to the efforts of Crystal and De Niro
2. The film could have deftly skewered the whole sub-genre; instead, it sinks to the level of a marginally classier Mickey Blue Eyes with a smattering of more laughs.
3. "Analyze That" is mildly entertaining and has a few laughs but that's about it.
4. Virtually every joke in this unnecessary sequel is either forced, old, or just unfunny to begin with.
5. About as original as a gangster sweating bullets while worrying about a contract on his life.
6. Fuggetabout It, 'Analyze That' A Fitting Sequel
7. In short, all the bouncing bullets in the world couldn't garner any gunpowder of fresh ideas to lift this gang of rehashed thugs and their sordid activities beyond the stagnation of comical creativity being served on a recycled platter.
8. Analyze That regurgitates and waters down many of the previous film's successes, with a few new swings thrown in.
9. When all is said and done, Analyze That turns out to be the lamest, most unnecessary sequel since...well, since The Santa Clause 2, which came out last month.
10. The first film focused on the relationship between Vitti and Sobel and pulled its humor primarily from it. This one is all over the place.