Critic consensus:Asger Leth risked his life to bring audiences this rare and gritty glimpse at Haitian gangs, poverty and politics.

Numbered reviews:1. Consistently riveting thanks to the sense of sheer terror that infuses its best moments.
2. Fascinating stuff, but this portrait of these scary 'altar boys' is probably the last thing that Haiti's Board of Tourism wants to see in circulation.
3. Gripping, powerful documentary with a terrific soundtrack and a compelling narrative that resonates on both a personal and political level.
4. The tone of the movie is excessively in thrall to its admittedly charismatic subjects.
5. Raw authenticity makes this a strong contender for a Haitian City of God, but it seems too staged and narrow in its focus to properly convince as a documentary.
6. Leth's gritty, haphazardly edited film plays like a music video, with jagged rap sequences interlaced with urgent handheld Super 8-style footage and a stonking shanty-blues soundtrack.
7. When it comes to depicting hell on Earth, Ghosts of Cite Soleil burns right through the eyeballs and straight into the soul.
8. Arguably the film romanticises its morally challenged protagonists, but there's little hint of rose-tint in the fear, peril and hopelessness that seem to soak every frame like a cold sweat.
9. Cité Soleil is the scariest and most captivating ghost story you'll see this year.
10. An expressionistic portrait of a society in violent chaos, the film blends cinĂ (C)ma vĂ (C)ritĂ (C) and newsreel footage to capture a modern-day tragedy with Shakespearean overtones.


Critic consensus:The music, the performances, the precision in capturing the post-college malaise -- The Graduate's coming-of-age story is indeed one for the ages.

Numbered reviews:1. Few movies have communicated with such dark hilarity all the anxiety and flamboyant misery of youthful sexual initiation
2. It's smart, witty, and troubling all at the same time.
3. Lovely Katharine Ross couldn't be more appealing as the daughter.
4. It is a good topical movie whose time has passed, leaving it stranded in an earlier age. I give it three stars out of delight for the material it contains; to watch it today is like opening a time capsule.
5. The most engaging thing about Mike Nichols is his awareness, strong enough to remind you of the late, great Preston Sturges, of how to use bland and idiotic exaggeration as a comic safety-valve.
6. It isn't often one gets even half a film as funny as this.
7. The Graduate gives some substance to the contention that American films are coming of age -- of our age.
8. Anne Bancroft is the stand-out. She brings depth, subtlety, and a melancholy sadness to the part that goes far beyond what is in the script.
9. Be agog at Anne Bancroft's Mrs. Robinson in some of the most hilariously icky seduction scenes ever filmed. See Mike Nichols (with help from Simon & Garfunkel) take control of the Zeitgeist. See the mood go dark -- darker than you remember.
10. Robert Surtees's stunning, innovative camerawork contributes telling visual ironies and the Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack perfectly captures the mood of disaffected youth seething beneath the laid-back exterior of 1960s California.


Critic consensus:Mixed reviews for Guy Ritchie's return to his London-based cockney wideboy gangster movie roots, but most agree, it's a step in the right direction following two major turkeys.

Numbered reviews:
1. Welcome back, Guy. Give our regards to the Missus.
2. [Ritchie's] latest effort has the sprawling cast of characters and all the convolutions you'd expect, but none of the wit or joy necessary to distract from its shallowness.
3. Even the rock music just seems immature. It's clearly a crutch, because none of these scenes would be cool without a pounding score... This is all the kind of abrasive rock that kids like to annoy their parents.
4. Guy Ritchie's latest is an exercise in substance-less style.
5. Ritchie's main interest is trying to reignite his stalled career by cribbing shamelessly from Tarantino, Danny Boyle and many other far more talented filmmakers.
6. The denizens of Guy Ritchie's now-familiar London underworld milieu seem second-string here, even though the writer/director has recruited some new faces.
7. The actual plot is so uselessly convoluted you'd get a headache just reading it -- but you might want to pull out the Advil anyway, given Ritchie's reliance on flashy editing, a blasting soundtrack and fetishized gunplay.
8. Ritchie whisks you along on a whirlwind tour, but he's not averse to putting on the brakes long enough to admire some of his favorite attractions.
9. Sometimes it amounts to a laugh or two.
10. Great title for a gangster flick. Too bad that writer-director Guy Ritchie only partially realizes the sizzling potential.