Critic consensus:Thirteen Days offers a compelling look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, and its talented cast deftly portrays the real-life people who were involved.

Numbered reviews:1. Thirteen Days will make you shudder, but only in ways the filmmakers intended.
2. It's a slick, efficient thriller that keeps driving forward lucidly and relentlessly.
3. Thirteen Days is like TV writ large, but not large enough to freshly illuminate history.
4. People will be watching Thirteen Days long after journalism's junkyard dogs have gone snapping after other prey.
5. I call the movie a thriller, even though the outcome is known, because it plays like one.
6. Though the outcome is a foregone conclusion, this movie still delivers a thrilling ride.
7. Despite its problems, Thirteen Days offers a chilling look at how close to destruction our world came in 1962.
8. Thirteen Days is a tribute to the moment when John F. Kennedy developed a legacy worth remembering, a moment in Washington when wisdom prevailed.
9. Thirteen Days sustains a pretty good boil for a movie that's basically a series of scenes of middle-aged white guys shouting at each other.
10. A sober and sobering film.


Critic consensus:Witty and restrained but still taut and funny, this Pontypool is a different breed of low-budget zombie film.

Numbered reviews:1. Tight as a drum and the most inventive spin on a zombie-plague premise in years.
2. With any luck, it will develop the cult it deserves because while its urgency makes it an easy target, Pontypool's new ideas are commendably gripping.
3. As a horror fan, this high-minded Talk Radio of the Living Dead left me as cold as a Pontypool winter.
4. Pontypool at least manages to amuse (a spur-of-the-moment on-air obituary is priceless) as well as consistently intrigue, right up to a bizarro post-credits epilogue that seems beamed in from Sin City.
5. A a genre-busting maverick of a movie, guarenteed to infuriate and astonish in equal numbers ... if you like your shocks laced with brain-teasing creepiness, Pontypool is the way to go.
6. Hemmed in by theatrically bound staging, "Pontypool" is an overly inflated zombie flick that makes overtures to a weighty theme of social consciousness that the screenwriters are ill-prepared to fulfill.
7. Think of this witty, economically gory little tour de force as 28 Days Later written by  linguist Noam Chomsky.
8. This is the sort of film that warrants a second viewing.
9. 'Pontypool' succeeds where many a less intelligent, purely visceral-visual movie leaves us cold.
10. McDonald propels things at a velocity that keeps you watching long after it's stopped making sense.


Critic consensus:There's a good chance you'll be laughing hysterically at one stunt, but getting grossed out by the next one in this big screen version of the controversial MTV show.

Numbered reviews:
1. My face still hurts from laughing.
2. Too often, the viewer isn't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance.
3. Where Tom Green stages his gags as assaults on America's knee-jerk moral sanctimony, Jackass lacks aspirations of social upheaval.
4. Strictly for shallow-end-of-the-gene-pool types who find professional wrestling and monster truck shows too sophisticated for their simple-minded tastes.
5. Belongs in the too-hot-for-TV direct-to-video/DVD category, and this is why I have given it a one-star rating.
6. To say that this vapid vehicle is downright doltish and uneventful is just as obvious as telling a country skunk that he has severe body odor.
7. An inflated and excruciating 85 minutes with barely enough laughs to sustain 10.
8. I felt like a donkey laughing so hard at such stupidity and I feel like even more of a donkey admitting it in print.
9. Grotesque, stupid, pointless, and funny as hell.
10. There's something wrong with the cast of Jackass, and the simple fact of the matter is that watching people satisfy their masochistic tendencies isn't fun or funny.