Critic consensus:Refreshingly sweet and undeniably funny, Big is a showcase for Tom Hanks, who dives into his role and infuses it with charm and surprising poignancy.

Numbered reviews:1. ...an agreeable yet unremarkable piece of work.
2. A disarmingly sweet movie.
3. If "Splash" was the film that gave the 'Bosom Buddies' star his first big movie role, "Big" was the one that showed the industry and audiences that this guy Hanks can act.
4. A funny, bittersweet film that opens as a cautionary tale about growing up too fast, but deepens into a movie about the unplumbable gulf between childhood and adulthood.
5. Tom Hanks is marvellously child-like as Josh, all restless energy, innocence and real pleasure in the liberation that being grown-up allows him.
6. The film succeeds largely because of the splendid performance of Tom Hanks -- who is irresistibly funny as "big" Josh.
7. Joyously entertaining, escapist stuff.
8. Big may well be a formula fantasy movie, but Penny Marshall's polished direction combined with Hanks's gauche charm make it the best of the spate of body-swap movies turned out by Hollywood in the late 1980s.
9. There's also one absolutely charming moment when Hanks and Loggia leap from key to key to tap out the melody and harmony to "Heart and Soul" on a giant piano in the F.A.O. Schwarz toy store.
10. A delightful comedy-fantasy.


Critic consensus:A touching, uplifting and inspirational rockumentary about an aging metal band, both hilarious and heart-warming in equal measure.

Numbered reviews:1. I'm still not 100 percent convinced that this wonderfully bittersweet documentary isn't entirely a put-on.
2. A complicated portrait of complicated men, an adeptly assembled character study that shows how limitless fame and fortune might not be the real recipe for happiness.
3. Gervasi misses a few beats that would elevate this from enjoyable to resonant, but he's the only filmmaker for the job
4. Anvil! is one of the sweetest, funniest films I've seen this year. Also the loudest and most foulmouthed.
5. There's just something utterly winning about the way the guys of Anvil hang on to their dream -- and when, in the movie's final scenes, they find it for a moment, it creates some genuine, headbanging joy.
6. Anvil! The Story of Anvil is a documentary about the moderate rise and long, long fall of their band, where musicians in the two other slots came and went, but Lips and Robb rocked on.
7. The movie is a small wonder, because it's not the work of a practiced filmmaker - Sacha Gervasi is a writer and Anvil fan who shot the movie on a whim, but he has a great eye, and is evidently an editing whiz.
8. Anvil! The Story of Anvil can't help but evoke This Is Spinal Tap, the classic 1984 mockumentary directed by the other Rob Reiner, in terms of both sheer hair-metal ludicrousness and indignities suffered by a not-so-successful rock band on the road.
9. The most stirring release of the year thus far.
10. An outstanding rock documentary that is as funny/sad as it is revealing.


Critic consensus:WWJB is an eye opening doc about consumerism that manages to be both funny and informative.

Numbered reviews:
1. Seeing WWJB? in a theater is not necessary, although seeing him and the choir hijacking a mall in person would be better than Beowulf in IMAX.
2. Reverend Billy is a charismatic presence, even if his shtick is too silly and the documentary too unfocused to motivate any serious change in the nation's holiday spending habits.
3. These bits of information could have been shocking in about 1940, 1980 and 1990. But by now, Americans who don't know couldn't care less.
4. Talen runs the risk of losing his purpose amid his performance.
5. This funny, yet thought provoking film asks many questions that have plagued consumerism for decades. While much of the ground tracked over is old, it fits perfectly into the modern economic situation.
6. In WWJB, we don't really feel like we get to know anyone that well, not even the primary subjects of the film: Billy and his choir.
7. The shopaholic wages of sin are...the Shopocalypse!
8. So we need a better movie about this subject. As usual.
9. Having illuminated the many dimensions in that vast universe between the flat affect of creative depression and the modish affectation of emo posing, Corbijn manages Control with elegant, understated veneration.
10. The good reverend and his crew do their best to get busted at assorted corporate shrines (Disneyland, the Mall of America), but their media-driven antics serve only to underline Spurlock's add-water-and-stir approach to political documentary.