Critic consensus:With an outstanding starring performance from Benedict Cumberbatch illuminating its fact-based story, The Imitation Game serves as an eminently well-made entry in the "prestige biopic" genre.

Numbered reviews:1. Prestige biopics don't get much better than "The Imitation Game." This is a special film.
2. Turing is kept tweedy and neutered, as closeted in celluloid as he was in real life.
3. The film is anchored by yet another hypnotically complex Cumberbatch performance. He's turning greatness into a habit.
4. Unlike self-consciously unconventional biopics, The Imitation Game melds fact and invention with lucidity and sweep.
5. With a constantly shifting chronology, the filmmakers find and link the key moments in the life of a brilliant, complicated, fascinating man.
6. "As fine-tuned and moving a performance as Cumberbatch delivers - all the more impressive for being created from scratch, since no audio or video recordings of Turing exist - the film's Turing suffers an acute lack of an inner life."
7. It's a sad and heartbreaking story that keeps you nailed to the screen for its entire 114-minute running time.
8. Based on the biography by Andrew Hodges, Imitation illuminates Turing's brilliance in an engrossing and moving film that features a standout, Oscar-worthy performance by Benedict Cumberbatch.
9. It never quite brings everything together into a dramatic whole.
10. The film's prime force is Cumberbatch, a great actor whose talent shines here on its highest beams. It's an explosive, emotionally complex performance.


Critic consensus:Woody Allen's uneven Melinda and Melinda fails to find neither comedy nor pathos in what seems like a rehash of his previous themes.

Numbered reviews:1. I'm torn - half of me thinks this is worth seeing and the other half says wait to rent it or see it on cable.
2. Overcoming the handicap of an overt, writerly device, Allen crafts a warm comedy and a painful tragedy right before our eyes.
3. A movie that too often is dull and duller, an exercise posing as a full-blown drama. Or is it posing as a comedy?
4. It is a stunt, but at least it is a serious one.
5. Half works, and the half that doesn't work isn't so bad that it's not worth sitting through to see a Woody Allen comedy starring Will Ferrell.
6. It's pleasant and challenging enough, in fits and starts, and certainly not the embarrassment of his last few movies.
7. Entertaining but uneven.
8. So much more depth has gone into seductively photographed interiors (residents complain of being poor while living in terrific Manhattan lofts) that Melinda starts to seem like an accessory, to be packed and hauled away.
9. None of the characters have their own voice. They all sound like Woody Allen.
10. But recently he's been off his game again. I don't know why.


Critic consensus:Crank: High Voltage delivers on its promises: a fast-paced, exciting thrill ride that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Numbered reviews:
1. Both exhilarating and exhausting, it falls just short of a fever pitch.
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3. Waking up in the aftermath of a meth-lab explosion might be less disorienting than watching this. And if you think there's no room for more, Neveldine/Taylor are probably a weekend and a bag of crack-filled Pixie Stix away from proving you wrong.
4. See this f%$&*ing movie, mate.
5. Basically the co-writers and co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor sneer at any kind of rules, decorum or morality. Anything goes, as long as it's within the realm of exploitation-level "B" moviemaking.
6. Yet another D.O.A. for the ADD era.
7. Plays it to all heights if idiocy where suspense of disbelief is no longer an instrument to the entertainment.
8. Feels like shock for shock's sake instead of something morbidly inventive like the first one.
9. Copping to how unrealistic your movie is by excusing it (no, no, it's a video game!), rather than running with it, is a mistake that Taylor and Neveldine never recover from.
10. ...an agreeable companion piece to its admittedly superior predecessor.