1. It's a shame that "Superman" had to leave the eighties in such a disgraceful fashion.
2. Even at 91 minutes, the film seems truncated.
3. It`s hard to summon much wonder when Superman goes mano-a-mano with Nuclear Man, a Lex Luthor creation with a static electricity problem.
4. It's hard to escape the conclusion that all the originality and excitement have been drained from the series.
5. Tthe enthusiastic hamming can't hide the clunking direction by Sidney J Furie and the sub-standard special effects.
6. Superman IV is cinematic kryptonite. Not only could it kill the Superman series, it might also leave filmgoers feeling weak.
7. Fortunately, the regular Superman performers all do their jobs well.
8. Of course, Superman saves the world, but the real news is that there's still some life in the series.
9. The overall effect is of a story atomized and dying before our eyes, collapsing into smashed pulp, ground down into big-budget Kryptonite ash.
10. The impoverishment here is not merely of means, but of spirit.
The Superman series bottoms out here: the action is boring, the special effects look cheaper, and none of the actors appear interested in where the plot's going.

1. It's a work of art -- crazy, touching and utterly unique.
2. The concept is high, the humor lowbrow and the joy of experimentation evident in every frame of this wonderful picture.
3. Maddin frustrated and self-immolating, forced to toil in a medium he sees only the death of and for an audience he disdains.
4. Bizarre, baroque mix of soap opera, song-craft, sorrow and substance abuse is an unpredictable knockout.
5. The costumes, the sets, the music, the choreography, the dialogue - all are beautiful and from the eye of a genuine vision.
6. The best movie you'll see this month and a contender, with the possible exception of Eternal Sunshine and Kill Bill Vol. 2, for the best film of the year.
7. If I were to recommend one work to someone who had never seen a Maddin movie it would be Saddest Music.
8. an insanely audacious satire
9. Any film where a beer baroness's glass leg (filled with beer) shatters when a high note is struck is okay by me.
10. A perfect entry point for viewers looking to explore the weird world of Maddin, who should be anointed the cinematic poet laureate of Winnipeg, if he hasn't been already.
Guy Maddin perfectly recreates the look and feel of a 1930s in this bizarre picture.

1. Even if it's a bit 'foreign' and arty, it's also consistently gripping, thoughtful, powerful stuff, assembled in an unusual way that catches us off guard and never preaches.
2. Packed with provocative ideas and fragments of provocative ideas.
3. The emotional landscape is observed with detachment; you have to connect the almost hidden dots to empathise with the characters or form the message, and it's hard.
4. Code Unknown is a film that will thrill connoisseurs of alienation and loneliness, and I say that with the utmost sincerity.
5. Despite the film's Bressonian rigours, its emotional force should finally give the lie to Haneke's reputation as a coldly academic film-maker.
6. [Haneke's] socio-political condemnations assume an aggressively hectoring tone.
7. Michael Haneke's only attempt to be emotionally salient.
8. The director toys with the entire idea of unlocking the code of violence, the small and individually insignificant elements that add up to tales of either joy or horror.
9. An interesting concept... [but] one doomed by a lack of characterization, Code Unknown remains a jumble of unknowable elements.
10. Worthy, challenging, heavily art-house-centric feature that explores ideas of immigration, communication, xenophobia and representations of reality within fiction.
Though challengingly cryptic at times, Code Unknown still manages to resonate.

1. Portray(s) the future in a monotone drone, forcing the poor actors to murmur their flat, lifeless dialogue.
2. Cirque du Soleil downloaded into a three-ring video game.
3. It probably looked like a good idea on paper.
4. "Aeon Flux" is thoroughly ridiculous, all but begging to be laughed out of the multiplex and into the second-run theaters.
5. Bad special effects, bad action, bad costumes -- bad everything.
6. The tag line is, 'The Future Is Flux.' Personally, I think they left the 'ed' off that last word, and it's not only the future that's in this state, but the movie itself.
7. Breeds plenty of contempt.
8. An impersonal slab of sci-fi sameness, Aeon Flux wears its lethargy like a badge of honor.
9. It's as if someone just swept up the floor at the Sci-Fi Factory, and instead of tossing the junk into the garbage, they glued it together and called it a movie.
10. The movie should have been called Aeon Sucks.

Aeon Flux lacks the gravity-defying pace of its animated predecessor, and, despite some flash, is largely a dull affair.