Critic consensus:Beautifully drawn and refreshingly calm, The Secret of Kells hearkens back to animation's golden age with an enchanting tale inspired by Irish mythology.

Numbered reviews:1. Concludes in a wholly unpredictable way and emphasizes such lessons as the retainment of knowledge, art, and spirit as perhaps the most valuable act for any surviving society.
2. The film's final image is a poetic paean to the Book's living power—a power that The Secret of Kells, like Aisling, recognizes without, perhaps, fully understanding.
3. Just a couple of minutes into this beautifully drawn, intricately rendered Irish import, you understand why the movie earned the Academy's attention.
4. This is a feast for the eyes. Characters look like expressive, paper cut figures, Celtic knots provide "frames" for the images and there are lush, watercolor-like backgrounds.
5. ... a must-see for animation fans, particularly those who are wearying of the computer animation look.
6. The Secret of Kells is a magical adventure unlike anything we've seen on screen before.
7. A glorious throwback to the more stylized, painterly work of decades past, the kind of vividly colored, fanciful pictorials that are usually confined to the small-scale realm of animated shorts.
8. Before long the magic that enchanted the Academy voters enchanted me too.
9. No, this isn't a great film, but it is a unique visual experience.
10. Colorful and imaginative, it's a visual treat. Where the story comes in, however, it loses it's footing.


Critic consensus:Hilary Swank's acclaimed performance pays fitting tribute to the tragic life of Brandon Teena.

Numbered reviews:1. Powerful and unpretentious.
2. Director Pierce and Bienen and the expert cast engage us in the actuality of these rootless, hopeless, stoned-out lives without sentimentalizing or romanticizing them.
3. Rather than being moved, you just feel sick.
4. It's the kind of movie that manages to shake viewers at the very foundations of their expectations for what kind of power film holds.
5. The movie lets down the material. It's too cool: all attitude, no sizzle--horror under glass.
6. Fine acting and a sincere, realistic approach to the its morbid subject matter, but somehow the pieces do not coalesce into an engaging film.
7. A devastating critique of the hatred, intolerance and bravado that lead to violence in America.
8. In other, less capable hands, "Boys" could easily have become either a sleazy piece of exploitation or a sanctimonious look at how awful the Bible Belt can be towards people who don't follow the straight and narrow path.
9. Es una película difícil y por momentos amarga, pero retrata una parte de la vida y la sociedad que es muy compleja de entender y de aceptar
10. ...a gut-wrenching performance. I can't imagine an actor throwing herself into a role any more completely than this.


Critic consensus:Its titillating title promises ribald laughs, but the lazily written, indifferently acted, and only sporadically funny A Good Old Fashioned Orgy fails to consummate.

Numbered reviews:
1. [VIDEO] "A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy" is tame to the point of boredom. If you're curious about how a sex farce can be neither sexy nor funny, this movie will eradicate any such questions.
2. Jason Sudeikis completes his 2011 dude-comedy trilogy with A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, a genial film of good old-fashioned humorlessness.
3. There are occasional big laughs, albeit not enough to qualify this as a must-see comedy.
4. Screenwriters Alex Gregory and Pete Huyck have devised a merely sophomoric reason to get these actors to take their clothes off to have sex.
5. Fast, fun, raunchy.
6. These immature, fairly pitiable protagonists go about their absurd project in all the wrong ways. But you just keep rooting for them.
7. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice meets a considerably tamed Van Wilder for a mediocre romp in the Hamptons.
8. Unable to decide whether to pitch their story as chastely sweet or ridiculously raunchy, filmmakers Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck end up with something that just lays there flacid.
9. Sex-themed comedy has some heart amid all the raunch.
10. 'Orgy' None Too Exciting