Critic consensus:Bottle Shock fails to properly utilize the inspiring true tale at its core, settling instead for an ordinary, plodding account.

Numbered reviews:1. One of the year's most entertaining films.
2. In light of all its swooping and swishing helicopter shots of the sun-dappled Napa Valley, [it] might as well have been photographed from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.
3. You can enjoy the mild bouquet of Bottle Shock as pleasantly sparkling, but it could have been plummier. Rickman sends up a full-bodied sneering British snob.
4. What this film needed was a whole lot more scenes with the good actors and lot less scenes of those Ken and Barbie Doll types.
5. Alan Rickman is one of my favorite actors, and I wanted to see Bottle Shock if only for his performance. Rickman's performance is great as usual, and Bottle Shock, despite some contrivance, is a very entertaining movie.
6. Alan Rickman plays the British wine expert who sponsors the test and is at his most comically feline. It's a great film about passion, eccentricity, families and... wine
7. . Like the chardonnay at the heart of the story, Bottle Shock is light with good body and plenty of flavour. It's also uplifting and amusing. In short, it makes you feel good.
8. It's easy to take, enjoyable and escapist, and while it celebrates Californian wine making, it doesn't disparage the French.
9. It's such a rewarding movie going experience it's tempting to trot out all the adjectives generally used to describe a good wine. Not being a connoisseur I'll just say that it left me with a very pleasant buzz.
10. Flat, musty and with a hint of flopsweat.


Critic consensus:A taut, solidly constructed action thriller with uncommon intelligence, Drug War delivers exhilarating set pieces without skimping on sophisticated filmmaking.

Numbered reviews:1. Another inkling of the style limitations perhaps most responsible for To's lower visibility stateside compared with, say, his countrymen John Woo and Wong Kar-wai.
2. Not only does the film never question the ethics of a war on drugs in which dealers and manufacturers are subject to the death penalty, it appears to enthusiastically endorse it.
3. Visually, it's a gritty throwback that's certain to please genre aficionados.
4. This film about cops and drug dealers in China is a lot like a story set in the Old West with outlaws and lawmen engaged in gun battles. There probably is a point to all this conflict that is lost in the translation.
5. The routine police procedural crime drama has dedicated Chinese narcotics cops closing in on a big-time drug manufacturer in a risky undercover operation.
6. The most purely enjoyable action film of the year, and I can only hope the inevitable American remake doesn't screw it up too badly
7. A nicely tangled, smartly paced and cold little thriller-nothing more, nothing less.
8. ...as nimble as a ballet dancer, even while dancing in muck.
9. Almost perfect.
10. What the hell: "Drug War" is a taut, minor masterpiece. It felt like watching early Walter Hill for the first time-"The Driver," "Southern Comfort"-and that is a very good feeling indeed.


Critic consensus:Despite Uma Thurman's comic skills, Motherhood's contrived set-ups and cliched jokes keep this comedy from delivering laughs -- or insights into modern parenting.

Numbered reviews:
1. A pleasing, lighthearted look at the mommy wars.
2. [A] sharp comedy.
3. You can see the movie wants to comment on all the frustrations of urban motherhood, but it does so only shallowly. How did having children kill Eliza's "fiercely lyrical'' fiction career? The movie isn't that political or reflective.
4. Many films have been made about the perils of parenthood, but none with a more attractive and entertaining mom on the verge of a nervous breakdown than Uma Thurman in Motherhood.
5. So focuses on Eliza's need to look out for number one that [the film] obscures the reasons people become parents, winding up with a movie light on love and heavy on narcissism.
6. gets stuck in the starting gate, unsure of what kind of film it wants to be.
7. The lesson, I guess, is that it really sucks being a mom, but it's also incredibly unrewarding.
8. Misguided, cluttered, annoying mess of a dramedy, a film only moderately redeemed by the still-luminous Thurman, but even she is dragged down by a truly awful screenplay. Mothers still get no respect.
9. ...inept...ill-conceived, and amateurish...an insult to full time Mothers and motherhood.
10. Motherhood gives upper-middle-class whining a bad name.