Critic consensus:A poorly scripted history-rewriting exercise with mediocre acting and unconvincing CGI battle scenes.

Numbered reviews:1. With its meticulous attention to detail and superior production values, the film promises much more than its unseasoned cast and thin plotting deliver.
2. Amazing aerial stunts %u2013 they are really are quite a sight to behold.
3. Each air battle has been scripted as a set piece that not only shows off the capabilities of the pilots and their machines, but also advances the plot. Bring your Dramamine!
4. It may indeed be inspired by a true story, but what we see onscreen is simply "Star Wars" set in some fantasy French air base circa 1917.
5. The characters, although based on real life people, are one-dimensional stereotypes that exist for the sole purpose of presenting indistinguishable flesh-and-blood pilots for superabundant air battles.
6. The best of Pearl Harbor meeting the worst of HBO's Band of Brothers.
7. Yearning for a time when warfare seemed so much simpler and more honourable, Flyboys is a thrilling, spectacular ride - but only when its dull characters get off the ground.
8. This well-produced, engaging film somewhat overreaches itself, trying to turn a crackling adventure into a sweeping emotional epic.
9. It's as family-friendly as a war movie can be these days, relying on the daring of its amazing aerial sequences rather than carnage or vulgarity to promote its authenticity.
10. Flyboys doesn't just use cliches - it wallows in them, feeling more like a film based on old war movies than actual history.


Critic consensus:Offering a unique look at modern fears and our fascination with film, The Wolfpack is a fascinating -- and ultimately haunting -- urban fable.

Numbered reviews:1. The sheltered world of the Angulos, informed by cinema more than the teeming city right outside their apartment windows, is a haunting and utterly unique one.
2. What a sad, strange, intoxicating movie.
3. At its best, The Wolfpack helps us to see the cinema in the world, and not the other way around.
4. [It] has to be seen to be believed.
5. [VIDEO ESSAY] You can't help but root for these highly articulate and reserved kids to make good in the real world. You just might be hearing more from the "Wolfpack" as filmmakers in their own right.
6. The dysfunctional Duggars of Arkansas have nothing on the Angulos of New York's Lower East Side.
7. It's a deeply strange success story, but it's self-aware and humorous, and full of frankly amazing revelations.
8. The Wolfpack is a reminder that much of the "crap" we decry has the potential to liberate, offering a bridge off the island of terror we call the nuclear family.
9. It's partially a story of the role cinema can play in helping connect viewers to the world, of helping people get find and hold hope, but it's also a capturing and catalyst for developing hope.
10. Tender, funny, heartbreaking and gloriously gritty, The Wolfpack is a must for any movie connoisseur, while it's also a reminder of just how powerful the medium can be.


Critic consensus:Dreamgirls' simple characters and plot hardly detract from the movie's real feats: the electrifying performances and the dazzling musical numbers.

Numbered reviews:
1. Jennifer Hudson's coming out party!
2. Yes, Virginia, there is a holiday movie worth taking your parents to that won't bore you silly or give you sugar shock.
3. Dreamgirls is a knockout, no two ways about it, a sizzling adaptation of the successful Broadway musical that is bound to leave audiences howling with pleasure.
4. This is the first important movie musical in decades about African-Americans and the first to deal with the revolution in civil rights and the mainstream success of black pop music.
5. Full of strong performances and outsize musical energy, Dreamgirls has all the makings of a big-time holiday hit, and it deserves to become one.
6. Condon has gotten terrific performances from almost everyone here. Knowles lives up to the promise she's shown in her earlier big-screen warm-ups. And Hudson proves to be as good in her dramatic scenes as she is in the musical ones.
7. Dynamic film with great performances, stunning sets, and gorgeous costumes. Now only if the songs were better.
8. As much as I appreciated the performances from the terrifically talented cast -- as much as I liked Dreamgirls -- I didn't love it. Maybe it was just a little too slick and over the top for its own good.
9. It's a laugh-out-loud moment when a hot R&B song is forever entombed as Pat Boone-style fluff. But that same sort of sanitization and sterilization has been applied to this film. Scrubbed clean for a shiny glow, most of the soul is gone from the story.
10. However, most of the great musicals from the 1930s and '40s did too, and it was the music and dancing which saved them. This is the case here, as well.