Critic consensus:Pocahontas means well, and has moments of startling beauty, but it's largely a bland, uninspired effort, with uneven plotting and an unfortunate lack of fun.

Numbered reviews:1. As for the songs, they're guaranteed to keep your shoes glued to the floor
2. Both resplendent and restrained.
3. Adult viewers, spoiled by what has come before, may feel that this film, which relates the legendary romance between a chief's daughter and English adventurer John Smith in the New World, is more by-the-numbers than inspired.
4. Disney deserves praise for raising the ante on its ambitions in animation. Next time, though, a little less civics lesson and a little more heart.
5. Disney's 33rd animated feature is so good that it deserves to follow in the beautiful footsteps of Beauty and the Beast and earn an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
6. True to the film's idealized spirit, directors Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg similarly fend off history.
7. Imagine a cult Disney cartoon, for this may be it.
8. An animated movie of incredible beauty.
9. Pocahontas is the best-looking of the modern Disney animated features, and one of the more thoughtful: It is about real issues, even if it treats them with naive idealism.
10. As long as Republicans are in power, the line "You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you" will remain relevant.


Critic consensus:In this sharp psychological thriller, Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett give fierce, memorable performances as two schoolteachers locked in a battle of wits.

Numbered reviews:1. Could ... have turned out to be a guilty pleasure were it more uninhibited and less rushed.
2. Note to self: accept no British imports trying to be American trash.
3. Its sleazy, low-down content guarantees few, if any awards, but it also provides a far more entertaining film.
4. Not perfect and meant to be disturbing for its take on complex moral issues, this British film is so well acted that it is Oscar-bound.
5. Stars Judi Dench in one of the cruelest, most isolating roles of her career. She's Barbara Covett, a British school teacher of a certain age who wields a poisonous wit that's so cutting, it tends to draw its share of blood.
6. 'Notes on a Scandal' is a memorable portrait of self-destruction. And, believe me, it's not a pretty sight.
7. Take a note: This is Judi Dench in the performance ofher career as a needy teacher who exploits and almostdestroys a younger woman.
8. A pair of crack performances.
9. It's a shame that such a deliciously twisted story comes across as so pedestrian onscreen.
10. Notes on a Scandal is both dramatic and funny thanks to an incisive script by Patrick Marber (Closer), with Dame Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett delivering performances that are memorable and exhilarating.


Critic consensus:If Ramona and Beezus fails to capture the essence of its classic source material, it's sunny, sweet, and wholesome.

Numbered reviews:
1. Very entertaining and even heartbreaking in some moments...
2. Captures the spirit of the Beverly Cleary books and offers a Ramona who's a believable combination of mischief and innocence.
3. Just try not to smile as you watch the imaginative misfit Ramona make classic childhood mistakes in this ebullient adaptation of Beverly Cleary's timeless series.
4. ...an affable yet forgettable little comedy...
5. Despite everyone's efforts, Ramona comes across as an insufferably spoilt and attention-seeking little horror.
6. Performances are perfectly pleasant, but more of Ramona's flights of fancy and less lingering on the adult romance would've added some oomph.
7. Only a twisted, seriously sad individual could have a problem with this sunny tween comedy, which I hated.
8. This sitcom-bright film doesn't come close to the quality of the Beverly Cleary book series, but it's a sweet, frequently charming effort that doesn't betray its G rating.
9. In this vision of Ramona, sincerity is decency and no mores, politics or creeds define those bounds. Screw irony, it's a temp trend anyway.
10. Nothing to frighten the horses, as they say, or interest or entertain them much, either.