Critic consensus:Emma Roberts is bubbly and charming as Nancy Drew, the junior detective. But despite her best efforts, Nancy Drew still lacks excitement, surprise, and compelling secondary characters.

Numbered reviews:1. Could show a lot of 12-year-olds how much fun movies once were when they weren't compelled to prove their cool.
2. A refreshingly kind and calm PG film that no one will be ashamed to see.
3. An awkward mixture of send-up and formula kid's comedy that's only marginally better than the Olsen twins direct-to-video detective series.
4. Hardly heart-racing stuff.
5. Anyone tired of taking their children to summer blockbusters (or Big Tired Crap Part III as they're referred to 'round here) will be happy to have a look at Nancy Drew.
6. Fleming's movie doesn't fuss much with originality or storytelling logic but it does play nice from beginning to end, its positive messages bundled up with self-aware humor and empowered feminine pep.
7. Tedious interpretation of the famous girl detective's adventures. Nancy Drew falls somewhere between The Haunted Mansion and the live-action Scooby Doo movies in terms of quality but is more irritating than either.
8. The threadbare, uninteresting plot could be overlooked were it not for the lifelessness surrounding it. The filmmakers mix tones and eras without purpose or effect. The appealing Roberts struggles to carry the burden. Wholesomeness shouldn't be so hard.
9. [Roberts is] a natural in front of the camera, so warm and cute you're instantly charmed. Nancy Drew works largely because of Ms. Roberts.
10. A cheerful diversion for the younger set, and Nancy's innocence plays as a welcome diversion to the ongoing Spears-Hilton-Lohan debacles.


Critic consensus:With ample laughs and sharp performances, Forgetting Sarah Marshall finds just the right mix of romantic and raunchy comedy.

Numbered reviews:1. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a refreshingly tender treatment of love gone wrong -- we mean, for a movie that's got enough lowdown sexual content to start its own Kinsey Report.
2. [Jason] Segel embraces the destiny of male anatomy in yet another clever creation from the Judd Apatow Alumni Association; this one, too, speaks from the male heart (and other parts) in a language accessible to females.
3. Features some very big laughs and is considerably sweeter than the trailers would make it seem.
4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall gives another Apatow player a much-deserved day in the sun. Maybe Jay Baruchel or Martin Starr will soon get turns in the rotation.
5. Forgetting Sarah Marshall has a workable if unoriginal setup, but as a story it's like one of those hotel guests lounging in an inner tube and drifting in lazy circles. It doesn't really go anywhere.
6. Segel and Stoller make the formula fun and entertaining, with great performances and an entirely relatable lead character.
7. While it's hardly unforgettable, the latest raunchy rom-com from prolific producer Judd Apatow is a genial timewaster.
8. Was the movie entertaining? Yes. Did it quite consistently earn some big laughs and small chuckles? Yes. Was the audience's intelligence insulted? Thankfully, no.
9. A romantic comedy both men and women can fall in love with ... the kind of movie you could watch all day.
10. Congrats, Jason Segel, the latest lucky graduate of the Judd Apatow School of Movie Stardom.


Critic consensus:Brazil, Terry Gilliam's visionary Orwellian fantasy, is an audacious dark comedy, filled with strange, imaginative visuals.

Numbered reviews:
1. An energetically quirky social metaphor, political commentary and action/sci-fi farce all balled up into one outrageously enjoyable experience, provided you like the work of Terry Gilliam.
2. Gilliam crams the screen with such a proliferation of bizarre and comic details that you'll want to revisit this particular nightmare again and again.
3. Inventive, prophetic black comedy; lots of violence, mayhem.
4. Brazil is this unique amalgamation of ideas straight out of Terry Gilliam's head that results in something so strange and so unique that it's just genius with a conclusion that is undeniably haunting.
5. Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape.
6. Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.
7. [A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy.
8. Influenced by Kafka, Orwell, and Kubrick, Gilliam's darkly humorous futuristic satire is narratively flawed and excessive in many ways, but it displays its creator's wildly vivid imagination and is intermittently witty.
9. Brazil -- a black comedy that remains ahead of its time -- is one of the most audacious fantasies ever made.
10. Brazil offers a chillingly hilarious vision of the near-future.