Critic consensus:Chweneyagae's powerful performance carries this simple yet searing tale of a shantytown teenager's redemption.

Numbered reviews:1. At the heart is a breathtaking performance by South African actor Presley Chweneyagae.
2. The violence makes Tsotsi's character a little more challenging to embrace and makes the transformation tougher to achieve, but it's more rewarding in the long run.
3. This remarkable movie means to shake you, and boy does it ever.
4. The story's lame, condesending objective dictates that bringing-up-baby histrionics will melt the savage beast.
5. While some of the scenes are a bit melodramatic ... [Director] Hood does a terrific job drawing the audience into Tsotsi's world of violence, anger and, eventually, growth and maturation.
6. ...a thug-rehabilitation movie that goes to exaggerated lengths to redeem its criminal antihero.
7. What a simple and yet profound story this is.
8. Tsotsi does more than illustrate African hardships. It's a powerful appeal for us to appreciate the value of every human life, from infants to hardened of criminals.
9. If Hood's direction were anything more than blatantly cruel and crushingly obvious -- or if Chweneyagae were capable of more than one expression -- the film might have a reason for existing.
10. A mixture of thrilling documentary-style realism and Hollywood hokum, Tsotsi leaves you all but tasting the orange dust of Joburg's shantytowns and moved by the harrowing journey Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae) is forced to take.


Critic consensus:Despite its promising pedigree and a titillating premise, Chloe ultimately fails to deliver the heat -- or the thrills -- expected of a sexual thriller.

Numbered reviews:1. Yeah, it's kinda kinky. But given that Moore and Seyfried are terribly attractive women, watching their little dance of desire has its pleasures.
2. This is a high-toned erotic thriller, handled with style and some emotionally raw scenes, aiming for an effect that's pleasingly unnerving, if not outright arousing.
3. The only Verhoeven element that's missing is deliberate camp, a healthy ladling of which might have made Chloe worth watching for some reason other than the prospect of glimpsing Seyfried's and Moore's admirably formed torsos.
4. A seductive and mostly intriguing erotic thriller that eventually loses steam and veers toward silliness while failing to trust the audience's intelligence. Amanda Seyfried sizzles.
5. There are certainly moments in the film where you won't want to make eye contact with anybody else in the theater. But that may be because your eyes are glued to the screen, kept there by a film so seductive and profound.
6. Nearly too stupid to be considered misogynistic (although not quite), Chloe would be straight-to-video if it starred lesser actors and bore the name of a director considered trashier like Paul Verhoeven or Adrian Lyne.
7. This sleazy and cheap imitation of the original takes a silly and ridiculous turn in the third act. It becomes a kinky lesbian imitation of "Fatal Attraction." The tawdry sexploitation will be titillating for dirty old men.
8. The movie is entertaining and undeniably sexy, filled with an atmosphere charged by lust and desire.
9. Chloe's aesthetic is both distancing and, largely on the strength of Moore's translucent performance and Seyfried's boldness, forcibly intimate.
10. A mature, adult experience.


Critic consensus:A competent, but routine police thriller.

Numbered reviews:
1. Satisfying fare and worthy of a sequel.
2. It's not a particularly original movie.
3. ... another film franchise based on an aging property because Hollywood would rather spend a few bucks on a barely-remembered property instead of a lot of bucks developing something new themselves.
4. Why not just make an action film without pretending to be something more?
5. I was very disappointed in this movie. Not because it was bad, but because it was good. I had all these lines made up to make fun of it and now I can't use them.
6. SWAT is a pale replica of the 1970s cop adventure show with only some of the panache and only slightly better acting.
7. Forgettable Friday night thriller that's short on action set-pieces but compensates with decent characters and performances.
8. The fast pace robs the characters of depth, but there's never time to be bored. S.W.A.T. is an arresting good time.
9. Its assertion that realism is more serious than abstraction caters to literal-mindedness at the expense of interest.
10. The script is tight and lean.