Critic consensus:It isn't quite as compelling as the earlier trilogy, but The Bourne Legacy proves the franchise has stories left to tell -- and benefits from Jeremy Renner's magnetic work in the starring role.

Numbered reviews:1. The Gilroys --co-writer/director Tony, writer Dan -- don't kill or wreck "The Bourne Legacy." But this Treadstone retread just treads water, and that's no way to make it Bourne again.
2. He won't erase any memories of Damon, but Renner's turn is strong enough to stand on its own.
3. It's chaotic, but still kind of fun.
4. The Bourne Legacy is dwarfed by the three smash Bourne movies that preceded it. But for summer movie night escapsim, you could do worse.
5. It struggles (ironically) to establish its own identity. Bourne himself, it turns out, casts too great a shadow.
6. 'Legacy' has to dig deeper to find new ground to cover, introducing elements of sci-fi into the equation. The result is surprisingly limp and even more incomprehensible.
7. A momentum-driven thriller that depends less on star power than on epic action sequences.
8. Will come as a major disappointment for those who enjoyed the earlier trilogy, a mostly plodding chase movie that revs up too infrequently and then not always excitingly.
9. By the time Rachel Weisz, as a scientist called Dr. Marta Shearing, showed up in a lab coat, I stopped trying to parse every plot twist and just went with the action flow.
10. The best thing that can be said about "The Bourne Legacy" is that Renner will survive it.


Critic consensus:Brilliantly bizarre and overflowing with ideas, Beetlejuice offers some of Michael Keaton's most deliciously manic work - and creepy, funny fun for the whole family.

Numbered reviews:1. An excellent, twisted, funny film back when Burton didn't get in the way of his own filmmaking.
2. One of Tim Burton's earliest works, and quite possibly his best, when his eager energy wasn't completely swamped by his self-indulgence.
3. One of the all-time great ghost movies, and certainly the funniest.
4. Coasts by like a rocket, thanks to Keaton's inspired performance and Burton's dark-carnival lunacy.
5. Burton's breakthrough film. Marred by boring leads.
6. [The] actors, not surprisingly, are limited by the stupidity of their material.
7. This comic spook tale borrows a page from the Topper storyline, but does it with imaginative fun and style.
8. Tim Burton's freshest work, and perhaps the purest embodiment of his funky world view. Count the number of people whose careers were made here; that's no fluke.
9. Burton makes good use of all the possibilities offered by the plot and gives us some wildly original creatures, most notably Michael Keaton as the terrible Beetlejuice.
10. Not since Ghostbusters have the spirits been so uplifting.


Critic consensus:A boozy depiction of a struggling writer, Big Bad Love is too messy and self-indulgent.

Numbered reviews:
1. The draw [for "Big Bad Love"] is a solid performance by Arliss Howard.
2. Howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a Buńuel retrospective.
3. Brown's saga, like many before his, makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie.
4. Arliss Howard's ambitious, moving, and adventurous directorial debut, Big Bad Love, meets so many of the challenges it poses for itself that one can forgive the film its flaws.
5. there's enough meat on the bones of Big Bad Love ... to keep it from being dismissable.
6. In the end, this is a story about a hard-to-know guy who loves his typewriter most of all. Everything else is just dust-jacket photography.
7. Though Howard demonstrates a great eye as a director, this Southern Gothic drama is sadly a tough sit, with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least slow him down to a canter.
8. ... alternately charming and annoying.
9. [F]rom the performances and the cinematography to the outstanding soundtrack and unconventional narrative, the film is blazingly alive and admirable on many levels.
10. Far too clever by half, Howard's film is really a series of strung-together moments, with all the spaces in between filled with fantasies, daydreams, memories and one fantastic visual trope after another.