1. The best screen adaptation of Shakespeare's wonderful romance.
2. A world of sundrenched piazzas, masked balls, rowdy swordsmanship, bustling marketplaces, moonlight, meadows, and passion
3. Franco Zeffirelli's rendition of Shakespeare's classic tragic love story gets off to a slow and rocky start but eventually takes hold once its titular leads take over.
4. ...may not be great Shakespeare, but it's compelling, impassioned filmmaking.
5. The success of the film depends upon Whiting and Miss Hussey...They are magnificent.
6. A more romantic and realistic rendition of the nature of love, I have never seen.
7. Romeo and Juliet (1968) is Florentine director Franco Zeffirelli's beautiful modern interpretation of Shakespeare's enduring, classic yet tragic love story of
8. It's a visually stunning adaptation with much action, broad humor, and eroticism.
9. This is the definitive cinematic Romeo and Juliet.
10. Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet is best version on film.
What is the critic consensus?
A: The solid leads and arresting visuals make a case for Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet as the definitive cinematic adaptation of the play.

1. A classic horror film that still thrills.
2. Hooper and Spielberg hold our interest by observing the everyday rituals of this family so closely that, since the family seems real, the weird events take on a certain credibility by association.
3. It is consistently redeemed by its creator's dazzling sense of craft.
4. Pull your face off and wallow in the creepy goodness.
5. A vapid, silly horror movie with occasional moments of promise that ultimately fails due to an overdose of cuteness.
6. Though the shocks are well conveyed, it's the sweetness that lingers, making this the first cute and cuddly entry in the genre.
7. Cut from the Spielberg mold.
8. J'aurais préféré voir quelque chose de plus sombre et de plus sérieux. Dommage.
9. Hooper's skill with gore combined with Spielberg's ability to sanitize anything into family-friendliness makes Poltergeist a smash horror hit -- and it's rated PG.
10. That it's all hokum gets washed aside by the believable and perceptive family value story set in bland suburbia.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Smartly filmed, tightly scripted, and -- most importantly -- consistently frightening, Poltergeist is a modern horror classic.

1. Eddie's true modern progeny is There Will Be Blood's Daniel Plainview, drinking bitter milkshakes since 1961.
2. shows timeless struggle and is a classic in cinema
3. Newman is better than usual; Gleason, as the slit-mouthed, beady-eyed Minnesota Fats, darts among the shabby little pool sharks like an improbably agile and natty whale; and Gambler Scott looks as though he could sell hot-air heat to the devil.
4. Director Rossen presses all the right buttons in this classic dark masterpiece, and the atmosphere of the pool halls is brilliantly conveyed by Shufton's black-and-white CinemaScope photography.
5. Like a traditional morality play; teens and up.
6. An extraordinarily accomplished noir drama about pool, with top notch peformance from Paul Newman as the jaded player and exemplary supporting cast headed by Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, and Jackie Gleason.
7. This is one of Newman's very best films, if not his best, even if it's relentlessly depressing.
8. A raft of excellent performances buoy a fervent tale of weakness and success.
9. A crackling good morality tale
10. So much more than the ups and downs of one pool player--It's shot in a very realistic way and deals with inner conflict and what it means to be a man.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason give iconic performances in this dark, morally complex tale of redemption.

1. Empire Records is little more than a poor man's Clerks, but an entertaining one.
2. The Empire Strikes Out . . . lame Gen-X "comedy" that falls completely flat . . . Go rent CLERKS
3. ...things just move quickly from one person's conflicts to another, with little momentum or feeling of satisfaction.
4. Overall, fatally ersatz but good natured at heart.
5. [Leaves the] impression of artificiality.
6. Leaves you with the sensation of having chewed a piece of bubblegum until well after its flavour ran dry.
7. A soundtrack in search of a movie, Empire Records is one teen-music effort that never finds a groove.
8. Insubstantial, predictable and often dull.
9. Lovably sloppy.
10. One of the hippest and most enjoyable movies of the 90s. This ROCKS!
What is the critic consensus?
A:
Despite a terrific soundtrack and a strong early performance from Renee Zellweger, Empire Records is mostly a silly and predictable teen dramedy.