Critic consensus:The dance sequences are exhilarating, but everything else about this movie is sloppy and generic.

Numbered reviews:1. Before shooting began, the dancers rehearsed for eight weeks to develop off-the-hook new dance moves, which begs the question: Who was working on the script during that time?
2. We actually begin to laugh at the inanity of it all, wanting to yell at the screen: 'Just shut up and dance!'
3. Nothing but an exploitative piece of garbage...
4. Dubious plot and characters, good dancing.
5. Just in time for their feature film debut, the enormously popular B2K has disbanded.
6. You Got Served is about dancing. Street dancing. The sort of make-believe dancing that inner-city youths participate in instead of having sex or joining a gang.
7. A spirited, guilty pleasure of a dance movie.
8. You Got Served is, to quote Simon Cowell, absolutely dreadful.
9. Lacks the old-school charm of films like Wild Style and Breakin'.
10. ...monotonous and predictable.


Critic consensus:Funny, moving, and beautifully acted, The Descendants captures the unpredictable messiness of life with eloquence and uncommon grace.

Numbered reviews:1. A beautifully touching, tragic and amusing follow-up film from the director of Sideways.
2. The Descendants manages to even surpass those stratospheric expectations most fans will have walking into the theatre.
3. The Descendants is humane, decent, and close to real quality.
4. People looking for a good lei would be wise to say aloha to 'The Descendants,' Alexander Payne's Hawaiian-set luau in which laughter and tears combine for a cinematic feast.
5. The Descendants is an exercise in why women are such horrible, despicable shrews. When this film isn't demonising its female characters for daring to be unhappy in their marriage, it's condescending them for showing too much emotion...
6. A truthful, warm-hearted, deeply moving film about loss, about death, about legacies and, yeah, family.
7. Mr. Payne's undeniable knack for naturalism makes "The Descendants" a wholly persuasive and heartfelt experience.
8. I enjoyed Clooney's performance enormously without ever buying it for a second.
9. (Clooney) is at the top of his game in his scenes alone with the comatose Elizabeth. Asking questions that are unable to be answered, his pain at his loss and her betrayal is heartbreaking.
10. Here's where I am right now: The Descendants is the best movie of 2011. It is the movie of the year, in many ways beyond its simple superlative overall excellence.


Critic consensus:Ocean's Thirteen reverts to the formula of the first installment, and the result is another slick and entertaining heist film.

Numbered reviews:
1. Though "Ocean's Thirteen" sticks to Las Vegas, rather than the lush palazzos of European cities, the atmosphere is still a privileged one where our heroes carry out another ultra-hip caper.
2. The gang's back in Vegas, and back in top form.
3. Clooney, Pitt and Damon have now worked together long enough that they've found a delightful sense of synchronicity that makes even the throwaway lines worth catching.
4. There is one small bit of good news about Ocean's Thirteen: it's not as bad as Ocean's Twelve. But when you consider just how dismal the latter was, this nugget will hardly be cause for rejoicing.
5. Steven Soderbergh's film is smooth, pleasing and lively. It's also completely devoid of genuine dramatic tension.
6. Why put so much sheen on a movie that warrants and provokes nothing more than mild diversion? It's like serving sloppy joes on fine china.
7. Acknowledging that service employees and factory workers make casinos tick - and factoring them into the plan - is a welcome wrinkle in pressed-suit professionalism that's on display in this thrillingly exciting franchise revival.
8. This might be the first piece of escapism to have a whiff of public service at its heart.
9. A fast-paced lark of a movie that makes it clear that in this cruel and crafty world, friends have to stick together.
10. Returning to Las Vegas but losing its winning streak, Ocean's Thirteen lets Soderbergh and the boys take a final bow while proving it is possible to have too much of a good thing.