Critic consensus:A pleasant diversion for the young teens, but a waste of time for anyone older.

Numbered reviews:1. A competent, unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country.
2. See Clockstoppers if you have nothing better to do with 94 minutes. But be warned, you too may feel time has decided to stand still. Or that the battery on your watch has died.
3. Take any 12-year-old boy to see this picture, and he'll be your slave for a year.
4. The clock doesn't actually stop during Clockstoppers, but time does seem to crawl.
5. This is escapist, science-fiction fun, with a little relativity theory thrown in. And it should work just fine for the pre-teen crowd.
6. The film is a sloppy, discombobulated mess that mistakes loud skate punk music for character development and prosaic special effects for a narrative.
7. Clockstoppers is one of those crazy, mixed-up films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up.
8. A half-assed film.
9. The script becomes lifeless and falls apart like a cheap lawn chair.
10. Although Clockstoppers sports some cool visual effects, it ultimately succumbs to a predictable plot and cardboard characters.


Critic consensus:Led by a brilliant performance from Brendan Gleeson, Calvary tackles weighty issues with humor, intelligence, and sensitivity.

Numbered reviews:1. Calvary is gripping, moving, funny and troubling, down to an uncompromising yet uncynical finish.
2. Gleeson delivers towering performance as Christ-like priest who must pay for someone else's sins.
3. We must forgive the movie for its sins of formality because it's trying to work out the mother of moral dilemmas before our very eyes.
4. [T]he kooky residents of a small Irish village... go search of a black comedy, but get stuck in a dramatic thriller that goes nowhere.
5. John Michael McDonagh's caustic passion play pits one stolid cleric against the whole filthy universe of base humanity, which demands he atone for the sins of the Catholic Church.
6. Full-to-bursting with a raft of idiosyncratic characters and philosophical conflicts and the current crisis in the Church and idiomatic comic dialogue strung along by the script's thriller-like ticking clock.
7. McDonagh isn't always successful at juggling his disparate impulses, leaving his film to tonally lurch from one scene to the next. But damned if he shouldn't be praised for trying.
8. Calvary is full-to-bursting with a raft of idiosyncratic characters and philosophical conflicts and the current crisis in the Church and idiomatic comic dialogue strung along by the script's thriller-like ticking clock. It's also beautifully shot.
9. A dark and profoundly funny tale of an institution failing its sheep and its best shepherds.
10. Great filmmaking is an art. McDonagh and Gleeson have showcased that art with "Calvary".


Critic consensus:The performances in Big Night are wonderful, and the food looks delicious.

Numbered reviews:
1. Charming, funny, poignant and mouth-watering, this is most wisely seen well fed beforehand or you'll be drooling.
2. The movie is like a great meal overlayed with sublime conversation and mingled with a little goofiness.
3. Although hurt by uneven pacing and inconsistent writing, the film handles itself with style, wit and flavor.
4. A scrumptious tale of great food and grand passions.
5. Stanley Tucci's surprise cinematic brainchild fills you up with its audacious originality.
6. A big-hearted story of sparring brothers who are trying to make a go of a meager Italian restaurant in a small New Jersey town.
7. A charming little gem.
8. The film is a bit slow paced, but it derives such a great joy from its subject matter that you can't help but walk out craving a great meal.
9. All-in-all, it's a warm, funny, and at the same time heartbreaking look at one big night in the company of some truly interesting people.
10. It is a warm, engaging and extremely funny film which manages not simply to describe the battle between art and commerce, but to win it on behalf of the former.