Critic consensus:Featuring strong performances and direction, The Yards is a richly textured crime thriller with an authentic feel.

Numbered reviews:1. It is full of action and unexpected plot turns, and is beautifully acted by three veteran performers and three newer ones.
2. Good enough to make you eager for Mr. Gray's next film.
3. One of The Yards' impressive elements is the way that, while it sometimes strains credibility, it conjures up an entire world -- and an entire world view -- without ever leaving Queens.
4. Beautifully cast and subtly shaded story.
5. The movie's depiction of its characters ... has the depth and complexity of real life, and the actors know how to deliver the goods.
6. An experience that won't startle or surprise you but will satisfy your need to see good actors at work.
7. Even if The Yards is no masterpiece by association, it still features two galvanizing young actors at the top of their game.
8. There's an old-fashioned steadiness that reminds me a bit of the old James Cagney pictures. And that sort of thing still works pretty well.
9. It's filled with compelling performances, steeped in lovely photography, paced with grace and, finally, able to convey gravity and moral ambiguity.
10. It comes perilously close to being something special.


Critic consensus:This anti-romantic comedy lacks both laughs and insight, resulting in an odd and unsatisfying experience.

Numbered reviews:1. It's a checklist of summer-movie elements arranged with enough care to suggest that it should add up to more than a pleasant diversion.
2. A wishy-washy little relationship comedy that's nowhere near as nasty as it evidently wants to be.
3. It's hamhandedly squeezed through the Hollywood rom-com template, resulting in a movie as moribund as the relationship it portrays.
4. It's the movie's wobbly tone and its betrayal of its characters in the name of niceness that dooms The Break-Up into being a film that will satisfy no one -- not even the bottom-line thinkers.
5. For all of its comedic nosedives, the film is frank and uncompromising as a study of the final weeks of a relationship.
6. A sporadically funny comedy about a crisis in the relationship of a smiley couple who seem to think that life should be an endless run of happy days.
7. As anticlimactic as an actual breakup, without any of the passion, the anger or the glimmers of hope that come from gradually parting with someone you love.
8. Terrific supporting cast with eccentric characters lifts this comedy above the norm; Vaughn's rapid fire delivery of witty stream-of-consciousness dialogue really scores.
9. What looks like a raucous frat-boy comedy is really a surprisingly canny depiction of a stagnant relationship.
10. The fun parts of this movie actually occur when the two leads are not with each other but in their respective corners preparing for the next round.


Critic consensus:Offering a wonderfully witty script, spotless direction from George Cukor, and typically excellent lead performances, The Philadelphia Story is an unqualified classic.

Numbered reviews:
1. More of an oddball comedy than a screwball comedy, The Philadelphia Story's gender politics haven't aged exceptionally well even if its laughs have done okay.
2. If ever a production was endowed with an over-abundance of what normally represents the epitome in entertainment it is The Philadelphia Story.
3. It has been a long time since Hollywood has spent itself so extravagantly, and to such entertaining effect, upon a straight upper-crust fable, an unblushing apologia for plutocracy.
4. Its witty dialogue, romantic complications, and class-skewering satire are hallmarks of screwball comedy, but it's a more mature and humanistic social satire, a comedy of manners skewering every kind of snobbery.
5. Everyone is at the top of his game in this sparkling satire.
6. Nearly perfect film version of the play.
7. The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world!
8. You could...fill a book with all the magical things that make this witty, swift, and wistful romantic comedy so impossibly good. Hollywood doesn't make romantic comedies like this anymore.
9. A parlor drama with witty, Oscar Wilde-like banter and glib repartee
10. Hepburn at her pinnacle; Grant and Stewart at their most charming; witty, warm and wonderful. A timeless work.