Critic consensus:Smartly constructed and scathingly sharp, The Armstrong Lie presents an effective indictment of its unscrupulous subject -- as well as the sports culture that spawned him.

Numbered reviews:1. As a comprehensive look at the Armstrong affair, as well as an often complex examination of power dynamics in professional sports, it's fascinating and highly watchable.
2. Only when it gets personal does The Armstrong Lie pick up speed.
3. Gibney gives the truth as full an airing as seems humanly possible, given that the subject is a world-class liar.
4. A well made film about one messed up dude.
5. While there are no new explosive revelations in The Armstrong Lie - and, at just over two hours, it's a touch too long - it's still a mesmerizing cautionary tale.
6. The movie captures a very modern approach to public scandal: Confession without remorse.
7. The bitterest parts of Gibney's movie are the interviews with the former teammates who were caught doping, and whom Armstrong, when he was still officially clean, viciously turned on.
8. Gibney took a film that was supposed to be about the resurrection of a sports star and turned it into an epic indictment of one man and an entire culture. The lesson is obvious: Never throw anything out.
9. There's a palpable sense of sadness, more than outrage or betrayal, to the film.
10. This scalding documentary follows along the lines of classic Greek tragedy,revealing how the fear of humiliation is one of the greatest motivators in human behavior.


Critic consensus:Eden uses 1990s club culture as the appropriately intoxicating backdrop for a sensitive, low-key look at aging and the price of pursuing one's dreams.

Numbered reviews:1. It's a kind of vampire movie, with our protagonist trapped in the crepuscular purgatory of his early 20s.
2. Hansen-Love, who co-wrote the script along with her former-DJ brother Sven, zeroes in on the signature experiences of '90s club life with expert precision.
3. Hansen-Lřve lets whole years pass without emphatic markers, but the beats function as a tonal bridge, connecting the pieces of a narrative that would be rudderless without them.
4. Eden offers a wise assessment of the interplay between fantasy and reality on the path to adulthood. The seductive rhythms are a perfect match for a movie that analyzes the unstoppable flow of life.
5. Eden is celebratory, cautionary and entirely intoxicating.
6. Even if you know nothing about techno, let alone garage, Hansen-Lřve's exploration of the ways music can nourish you or swallow you whole is instantly, perhaps painfully, recognizable.
7. Hansen-Lřve has made a film very much like a DJ does a remix. There's a formal structure, an A-side and a B-side, and she peppers artists that you might know throughout ... the mood and the music is marvelous.
8. Perceptive and compassionate, "Eden" recognizes how the thrill of artistic freedom can curdle in the heat of the marketplace and the demands of daily life. Yet the movie's refusal to foster regret, or have Paul repudiate his passion, is telling.
9. The camerawork is so fluid and the settings so brimming with detail that one feels washed away by the film, recognizing the hero's decline only when he does-that is, too late.
10. Eden winds and meanders through its 21-year course, with supporting characters disappearing and reappearing. But that's part of what makes it effective: watching time flow by as one man mostly stays in one place.


Critic consensus:Olivier Assayas' contemplative family drama handles lofty ideas about art and culture with elegance and lightness.

Numbered reviews:
1. The actors all find the correct notes. It is a French film, and so they are allowed to be adult and intelligent.
2. It's a quiet but heartfelt film that has a lot to say about the allure of the past and the inevitability of change.
3. You won't find filmmaking more assured, commanding and evocative than that of Summer Hours in its opening scenes.
4. A sweet pearl of a French film, Summer Hours may work as a perfect antidote for those seeking refuge from the summer blockbuster season.
5. The texture and flow of Summer Hours, the supple quality of the acting, the fluid camerawork isolating this or that observer while life flows on and domestic crises ebb and flow -- it all comes together as formidably detailed and easy-breathing cra
6. If this enjoyable film is substantially more satisfying than those predecessors, it's also far less daring, a straightforward extended-family drama in the mode of last year's (more engrossing) art-house highlight A Christmas Tale.
7. It is certainly a success, thanks in large part to the lovely performances from the three leads.
8. Quietly and keenly observed.
9. Berling, Binoche and Renier all play off each other effortlessly, and Summer Hours makes you feel comfortable spending time with their family, too.
10. One realizes the real dramatic conflict is between the past, which must be honored, and the present, which must be lived.