Critic consensus:Though Pollock does not really allow audiences a glimpse of the painter as a person, it does powerfully depict the creative process. Harris throws himself into the role and turns in a compelling performance.

Numbered reviews:1. Jackson Pollock may have been the wild beast who broke through the ice, but Ed Harris proves to be a tame animal indeed.
2. Most of Pollock, save for the last act, feels refreshingly different from most other bio-pics. Outstanding.
3. Only seems straightforward because the complexity of its relationships and intelligence of its details have been handled with such ease.
4. Harden deserves recognition more than her co-stars, if only because she creates the sole sympathetic character.
5. Harris spent most of the past 10 years trying to bring Pollock's story to the screen, and his passion is evident in nearly every scene of the film.
6. ...can't ever seem to find its way out of Denis Leary's all-purpose tortured artist biopic template: 'I'm drunk, I'm nobody. I'm drunk, I'm famous. I'm drunk, I'm dead.'
7. It tracks a mythology of creativity which runs from Caravaggio to Patti Smith, and is running still, unended.
8. Harris as an actor does justice to his long-term passion to play Pollock.
9. A highly personal, rigorous, and thoughtful analysis of a truly troubled genius.
10. The honesty and integrity that have always distinguished Harris' acting are reflected in every element of this extraordinary film.


Critic consensus:Unlike its bestselling source material, Diary of a Wimpy Kid fails to place a likable protagonist at the center of its middle-school humor -- and its underlying message is drowned out as a result.

Numbered reviews:1. [L]ike a rejected pilot for a Nickelodeon sitcom... downright distasteful...
2. What the movie gets right, sometimes in agonizing detail, are the humiliations and horrors of school...
3. Adorable comedy about middle-school anxieties...and farts.
4. What sets this kid comedy apart is how well it resists the temptation to clobber the bullies and crown the underdog.
5. The friendship message that comes wrapped in the world of Wimpy Kid gives the movie its centre and its heart, along with a reminder that there is no greater act of devotion than a kid who will submit himself to the cheese touch for a pal.
6. An above-average and sometimes surprising kid movie based on the first of a popular series of cartoon books by Jeff Kinney.
7. Not much will shock kids, especially those who have read the books, but I have to think there are better choices out there.
8. The film encourages urine, fart, and booger humor, which reeks of nosepicker pandering, compounded by a message of personal worth that never comes through clearly enough.
9. Kids who realize they're fully ordinary -- that is, pretty much all of them -- will be pleased to see a world they recognize on the big screen.
10. It's also a heartfelt film, with nice messages about friendship and responsibility...


Critic consensus:There's not much dancing, but what's there is great. The rest of the time, Footloose is a nice hunk of trashy teenage cheese.

Numbered reviews:
1. A lively and entertaining youth drama about the coming of change in a repressive small town.
2. An 80s milestone, for better or for worse... and a key link to any game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
3. OK teen flick that time has treated kindly.
4. Footloose is a seriously confused movie that tries to do three things, and does all of them badly.
5. I know it's a classic, but I wanted more dancing. Great hair though.
6. Only the most cynical would never admit to tapping their toes to Loggins' title track.
7. Like the rest of today's video-happy teen-age entertainments, Footloose doesn't expect to be watched closely or taken seriously. It wants to fill the screen with catchy music and pretty kids, and this it certainly accomplishes.
8. One could take it as a quaint little throwback, if the movie weren't so tedious.
9. A '50s B-movie very awkwardly translated to the '80s.
10. The kids fight for their right to party in this hokey song-and-dance story.