Critic consensus:Pocahontas means well, and has moments of startling beauty, but it's largely a bland, uninspired effort, with uneven plotting and an unfortunate lack of fun.

Numbered reviews:1. As for the songs, they're guaranteed to keep your shoes glued to the floor
2. Both resplendent and restrained.
3. Adult viewers, spoiled by what has come before, may feel that this film, which relates the legendary romance between a chief's daughter and English adventurer John Smith in the New World, is more by-the-numbers than inspired.
4. Disney deserves praise for raising the ante on its ambitions in animation. Next time, though, a little less civics lesson and a little more heart.
5. Disney's 33rd animated feature is so good that it deserves to follow in the beautiful footsteps of Beauty and the Beast and earn an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
6. True to the film's idealized spirit, directors Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg similarly fend off history.
7. Imagine a cult Disney cartoon, for this may be it.
8. An animated movie of incredible beauty.
9. Pocahontas is the best-looking of the modern Disney animated features, and one of the more thoughtful: It is about real issues, even if it treats them with naive idealism.
10. As long as Republicans are in power, the line "You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you" will remain relevant.


Critic consensus:A romantic dramedy with boring, stock characters and contrived situations.

Numbered reviews:1. [Garner] is moving up the likeability ladder to Sandra Bullock/Julia Roberts levels.
2. That this movie doesn't find a way out of the morass of cliché and triviality isn't surprising, but it is disappointing.
3. The mark of a good romantic comedy is whether it can make you care if the couple in the poster wind up being an item by the final reel. At the end of 'Catch and Release,' Cupid's intrigues and caprices are less involving than a typical State of the Union
4. Ugh.
5. Catch and Release is a little one that gets away.
6. Sadly lifeless.
7. It doesn't end with a mad dash through an airport, for example. But nor does it bother with thinking of anything much better.
8. I was pleasantly surprised.
9. Much, much better than it has any right to be.
10. An archetypal date movie with a good heart.


Critic consensus:Guardians of the Galaxy is just as irreverent as fans of the frequently zany Marvel comic would expect -- as well as funny, thrilling, full of heart, and packed with visual splendor.

Numbered reviews:
1. Pratt's charm and presence go a long way to carry the film through a confusing first act bogged down in character introductions, back story and set-up.
2. Gunn doesn't so much reinvent the wheel as reshape it a little, giving the rest of the vehicle a fresh lick of paint in the process.
3. The movie is seriously smile-worthy, largely due to the sheer number of jokes throughout.
4. The script is tossed through with entertaining banter, the action sequences are spirited and filled with inventive imagery, and the spirit of the whole enterprise is bright and energized...
5. To an extent, the film plays like a mixtape: slowly unwinding, confident in its own rhythms, unafraid to luxuriate in comic asides or hurtle forward the action.
6. Against all odds, the studio has yet another elegant, extremely entertaining winner on its hands.
7. Where other comic-book fare has felt like action blockbusters with sprinkles of comic relief, Gunn has been allowed to make a comedy that happens to feature comic-book characters.
8. These are unfamiliar Marvel characters, on the big screen if not on the page, which together with the witty script gives the whole package a welcome freshness.
9. While still suffering from a few symptoms of blockbuster-itis, Guardians feels more relaxed than your typical corporate summer tentpole. It has a puckish, sideways wit.
10. Gunn and his cast understand that the interplay among the quirky Guardians is what matters. The next Avengers movie already looks silly by comparison.