Critic consensus:A creepy French psychological thriller that commands the audience's attention throughout.

Numbered reviews:1. Although its opening promises a mystery, the question at the core of 'Cache' is not who is responsible for sending the packages; instead, the film asks whether the real danger is outside the Laurents' home or inside it.
2. Un drama intimista e inquietante que esconde una reflexión perturbadora sobre un vergonzoso capítulo de la historia francesa. Brillante dirección y actores.
3. Chillingly reminds us that in life, love, family and politics, we never know the full story. And someone is always watching.
4. Haneke has made a fine study of guilt and betrayal, and tries to convey what is hidden. Perhaps what is best hidden in the film is the claim that lies are conveyed at 24 frames a second.
5. If I have to sit through French small talk in a slow-paced film for two hours, I expect a substantial payoff.
6. The most unsettling part about Michael Haneke's taut, psychological thriller Hidden, is the ever-constantly changing points of view. We are never sure through whose eyes we are watching the events.
7. It's a head-scratcher, and a particularly fine one at that.
8. However valid these themes may be, these are not issues that keep me awake at night. They do not squat on my brain like some fantasticated octopus of guilt.
9. Thrillers often betray their audiences in order to entertain them. In "Cache," it's the footage itself that betrays us.
10. Challenges the audience to get involved in the story


Critic consensus:POTC: AWE provides the thrilling action scenes, but mixes in too many characters with too many incomprehensible plot threads.

Numbered reviews:1. A vastly accomplished bit of commercial filmmaking, with all the payoffs and pitfalls that such faint praise implies.
2. A thrill-a-minute extravaganza.
3. The third Pirates has tender moments and smashing ones, and if you fix on Depp, you'll manage fine.
4. At 15 minutes this side of three hours, it's longer than Spider-Man 3 and the last Pirates entry, which were both long enough. These are supposed to be popcorn movies, not Berlin Alexanderplatz.
5. Ultimately the voyage is so choppy and long that into the third hour I found myself yawning, 'Yo-ho-hum and a very sore bum.'
6. As the filmmakers try to wrap up some story lines while introducing others, At World's End buckles from a decided lack of swash.
7. Even longer and less coherent [than Dead Man's Chest]. Consider it a companion piece to the similarly indulgent Spider-Man 3.
8. From the stunning visual effects and well-paced action sequences to the smartly written story, Pirates closes the book on its trilogy (and opens the book on the next batch) far more elegantly and enjoyably than Spider-Man. Who'da thunk?
9. I like my action movies complicated, but At World's End is less a complexity than it is a high seas bazaar with everyone and everything vying for attention. You end up going home with nothing to show for your adventure.
10. Running nearly three hours in length, it continues the pointless excesses of the second film while again entirely missing the romantic charm of the first.


Critic consensus:Daniel Day-Lewis characteristically delivers in this witty, dignified portrait that immerses the audience in its world and entertains even as it informs.

Numbered reviews:
1. Day-Lewis, an Everest among actors, disappears into his part after the first few scenes. He makes us forget all others who have played the part or could have played it this time while making us think about Abraham Lincoln in a new way.
2. Lincoln is a smart, insightful, emotionally stirring, and highly relevant historical drama with mesmerizing performances and outstanding writing. It is one of the best films of 2012.
3. The true tussle of the movie, however, is between the Spielberg who, like a cinematic Sandburg, is drawn aloft toward legend and the Spielberg who is tugged down by Kushner's intricate screenplay toward documentary grit.
4. Even if the movie is no classic, Day-Lewis' performance belongs to the ages.
5. While I can see some audience members who weren't prepared for this story getting restless or even bored, I was captivated by the performances and see this as another historical win for Steven Spielberg.
6. Thanks to a strong cast and a smart story that's historically, morally and politically rich, Lincoln will go down as one of Spielberg's greatest accomplishments.
7. A bold film that sidesteps the standard sort of hagiography, peering at Lincoln sideways and slantways, trying to get at the man behind the mythology.
8. The most eloquent episode of Schoolhouse Rock ever made.
9. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Lincoln as a true mid-westerner, a wry, twinkle-eyed statesman that understood how conviction and likeability could affect the hearts of men. This man has no equal as an actor.
10. It's not the fast-paced war film some might have expected given the director's history, but "Lincoln" instead triumphs as the definitive portrayal of a man working towards what we would consider one of his finest hours in his too-short life.