Critic consensus:Mesmerizingly strange and willfully perverse, Holy Motors offers an unforgettable visual feast alongside a spellbinding -- albeit unapologetically challenging -- narrative.

Numbered reviews:1. In Holy Motors director Leos Carax demonstrates that playful can be profound, bewildering can be meaningful and randomness can have precision.
2. Never before has being so confused felt so enjoyable.
3. A mischievous sense of fun permeates throughout Carax's fifth feature, which proved welcome relief at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
4. Holy Motors quite literally takes us through the looking glass, but its most magical achievement is fooling us into forgiving and forgetting the fakery of it all.
5. A circus of a film themed on death, that is all at once drama, comedy, tragedy, mystery, thriller, farce, erotica and even a musical. There is a tour de force performance by the eminently mouldable chameleon Denis Lavant
6. Full of references that are vaguely aligned (at least in his mind) with the ethereal fantasy of the afterlife as a place to borrow ghosts for re-enactment of certain scenes, usually dramatic or deadly
7. The audience member never wonders what is happening, though we may often wonder why, or under what laws this reality operates.
8. Weirdly - and probably for entirely the wrong reasons - I couldn't take my eyes off it.
9. ...Viewers are along for a ride, wild and surreal.
10. The most brilliant and exhilarating film of the year.


Critic consensus:A slapstick skewering of industrialized America, Modern Times is as politically incisive as it is laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Numbered reviews:1. A great movie, a funny movie, an important movie.
2. An artist with vision swimming against a tide we know will eventually win.
3. It's the coldest of [Chaplin's] major features, though no less brilliant for it.
4. The opening sequence in Chaplin's second Depression masterpiece, of the Tramp on the assembly line, is possibly his greatest slapstick encounter with the 20th century.
5. One of the many remarkable things about Charlie Chaplin is that his films continue to hold up, to attract and delight audiences.
6. The picture is grand fun and sound entertainment, though silent. It's the old Chaplin at his best, looking at his best -- young, pathetic and a very funny guy.
7. What we have is not just a story about a funny little man, but a morality fable, or cautionary tale, about people on the chuckholed road to the American Dream.
8. Do you have to be reminded that Chaplin is a master of pantomime? Time has not changed his genius.
9. Certainly one of Chaplin's greatest...a true comedy classic.
10. Chaplin's political and philosophical naivety now seems as remarkable as his gift for pantomime.


Critic consensus:NATM has some funny moments, but the movie requires the audience to have familiarity with the movies being spoofed and a tolerance for toilet and sexual humor to be truly effective.

Numbered reviews:
1. This parody of teen comedies is just teen comedy by the numbers, for those who can only count to three.
2. A film's always in trouble when it has more screenwriters than cast members.
3. With so many gags coming at us so fast and furiously, some of them are bound to misfire. But, hey, that's OK: There's always another gag around the corner, and chances are it'll be funny.
4. Surprisingly funny.
5. Beyond the obligatory sight gags -- and a French-kiss scene that would simply stun the AARP -- much of the film elicits little more than weak giggles.
6. Laugh-out-loud funny at times, comic bits that, no matter how stupid or base, make it virtually impossible to suppress a chuckle.
7. There simply isn't anything to say about it -- good or bad. Maybe that's because it isn't a movie at all, just a string of scenes.
8. While not Oscar-worthy stuff, Not Another Teen Movie does make the laughter grade.
9. Many of the movie's targets are just too big and too obvious to elicit more than a smile of recognition, and the movie quickly degenerates into little more than a game of spot the (generally unfunny) reference for fans of the teen genre.
10. In director Joel Gallen's attempt to spoof the genre, he has merely added another lame entry to it.