Critic consensus:Featuring an impressive star turn by newcomer Tahar Rahim, A Prophet is a French gangster film filled with arresting, immediate details.

Numbered reviews:1. Rahim, with only a few film and TV roles behind him, gives a performance of startling force and subtlety.
2. Gritty, accomplished take on the genre, but falls into rote patterns that are only slightly disrupted by a brief foray into the supernatural.
3. Although these aren't characters with whom filmgoers will have an instinctive rooting interest, Rahim and Arestrup imbue them with fascinating nuances and, in Rahim's case, surprising vulnerability.
4. Writer/director Jacques Audiard is an intensely focused filmmaker with a gift for getting us inside the heads of ambivalent young men.
5. French director Jacques Audiard's grim, disturbing prison picture slices through gangster clichés to hit raw nerve.
6. In Jacques Audiard's haunting prison drama A Prophet, we watch a young man transformed by life behind bars.
7. A really satisfying, meaty film.
8. Jacques Audiard's tense, brutal crime pic is a triumph of writing, acting (by a mostly amateur cast salted in just the right spots by professionals), and scene-setting.
9. A Prophet solidifies director Jacques Audiard's standing as a criminal mastermind whose work leaves genre classifications in the dust.
10. A well-made gangster tale with parallels to Brian De Palma's Scarface.


Critic consensus:Anchored by another winning performance from Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg's unflinchingly realistic war film virtually redefines the genre.

Numbered reviews:1. Gripping and satisfying in a way that no mere summer event movie could ever be.
2. Despite nearly six decades of filmmakers trying to come to grips with [World War II, Saving Private Ryan] feels like the first truly honest attempt to deal with the horrors of combat -- and the terrible responsibility shared by all survivors.
3. For those who are willing to brave the movie's shocking and unforgettable images, Saving Private Ryan offers a singular motion picture experience.
4. Using the overpowering techniques of modern film, Steven Spielberg has cut through the glory-tinged gauze that shrouds World War II to reveal its brutal reality, creating a phenomenology of violence unsurpassed in the history of cinema.
5. A powerful experience.
6. A flawed but masterful film.
7. With complete visual and aural technical mastery, Spielberg and Kaminski thrust us face-first into the fighting, and never let us back out for two hours and forty minutes.
8. A powerful and impressive milestone in the realistic depiction of combat, Saving Private Ryan is as much an experience we live through as a film we watch on screen.
9. A soberly magnificent new war film.
10. Saving Private Ryan may be the most mature war film ever made.


Critic consensus:A nostalgic charmer, Lady and the Tramp's token sweetness is mighty but the songs and richly colored animation are technically superb and make for a memorable experience.

Numbered reviews:
1. The sentimentality is mighty, and the use of the CinemaScope size does not make for any less awareness of the thickness of the goo.
2. Happily the cameo lowlife, an excellent manic beaver, the famously villainous Siamese, and classic songs rescue the film from dumb animal sentiment.
3. One of Disney's simplest and most delightful animated features
4. ...somewhat overrated...
5. A charming piece of vintage entertainment from Walt Disney, replete with wholesome family values.
6. [It made] more money than any other film from the 1950s except The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur.
7. Disney's imagination seems at a low ebb, saddled with a shrunken, excessively naturalistic style in line with the diminished possibilities of postwar animation, and not yet graced by the inspiration that would redeem that style in Sleeping Beauty.
8. The wider canvas and extra detail work reportedly meant an additional 30% in negative cost. It was a sound investment.
9. They don't make movies like Lady and the Tramp any more. I know that's a cliche, but it's true.
10. The vintage animation is brilliant, and Disney has done a wonderful job with the transfer to DVD.