Critic consensus:Chicken Run has all the charm of Nick Park's Wallace & Gromit, and something for everybody. The voice acting is fabulous, the slapstick is brilliant, and the action sequences are spectacular.

Numbered reviews:1. This wonderful visual treat is done in stop-action clay animation, a form which is both substantial and magical. It's as if the clay figures kids make have managed to take on a life of their own.
2. This first feature by Nick Park and Peter Lord, the team that brought you Wallace and Gromit, is a diabolically witty piece of work, a haymaker.
3. The sly, sardonic flight of fancy known as Chicken Run is a delightful epic of fowl deeds, quests for freedom and poultry heroics from the off-kilter English cartoon house, Aardman Animation.
4. Like Wallace & Gromit, it's a paean to British eccentricity, equal parts cluelessness and hopefulness, full of English slang and dry Brit humor.
5. Run to Chicken Run. This clay-animation comedy is the most entertaining animal story since Babe.
6. The film is brilliantly voiced across the board, with special notice to Mel Gibson as Rocky and Julia Sawalha as Ginger.
7. It's nothing less than a stop-motion tour de force, bursting with charm, humor, invention and eye-popping mise en scene.
8. With its winking homages to films like Stalag 17 and The Great Escape, Run is visually inventive, its characters plump with personality and, for a bunch of chickens, ever so brave.
9. Indeed, it's the best movie comedy to come out of England since Monty Python packed up the circus.
10. Chicken Run contains some gorgeous, destined-to-be-classic set pieces, and this is where the Aardman production team flex their animation muscles.


Critic consensus:For Your Eyes Only trades in some of the outlandish Bond staples for a more sober outing, and the result is a satisfying adventure, albeit without some of the bombastic thrills fans may be looking for.

Numbered reviews:1. Roger Moore has always been my least favorite James Bond, and For Your Eyes Only is possibly the worst of Moore's Bond films.
2. Most of the outlandish silliness of a few other Bond issues is mercifully absent, replaced by a greater emphasis on believable thrills. The result is highly satisfactory.
3. One of Moore's best turns as 007.
4. The Bond series' most superb action assembly, plus a terrific performance from Roger Moore.
5. How one misses Goldfinger and the early Bond films in which the gadgets had more style and imagination.
6. Director John Glen took care of Bond for most of the 80s, arguably the agent's weakest decade. That said, his debut showed promise in its restraint.
7. By the end of the '80s, Bond would be viewed as something of a relic, but at least the decade opened with an enjoyable outing.
8. One of the better Roger Moore vehicles, thanks to a script that overflows with exotic locales and extreme adventures for our hero to undertake.
9. First-time director John Glen knows what's needed to create suspense...put the series' trademark wit, women, and song alongside the high-stakes adventure of a more brutal 007. [Blu-ray]
10. ...suffers from a disastrously plodding midsection that ultimately casts a pall over the remainder of the proceedings...


Critic consensus:Aside from a few thrills, Deep Blue Sea is unoriginal and unintelligent.

Numbered reviews:
1. The repeated lifting of material from other films eventually sinks this one into mediocrity.
2. Harlin delivers all the thrills, explosive action and sheer gore that audiences have come to expect!
3. It'll get your date to jump into your lap, and that's really what a movie like this is all about, right?
4. Deep Blue Sea is an enjoyable little B-movie, mean and gory and single-minded in its pursuit of cheap thrills.
5. Director Renny Harlin uses sound well and moves that camera around with lean, mean, visceral clout.
6. Strangely monotonous, with distressingly few chuckles.
7. A corny cornucopia of outrageous guffaws and giggles topped with spine-chilling thrills.
8. Deep Blue Sea is an example of how expert action filmmaking and up-to-the-minute visual effects can transcend a workmanlike script and bring excitement to conventional genre material.
9. The emotional edge in Harlin's direction [is] unquestionably as impressive as his action expertise is.
10. One of the shrewder, more efficient terror machines that's followed Spielberg into the water.