Critic consensus:Gloomy Sunday is beautiful, well-acted, and every bit as downcast as its title.

Numbered reviews:1. An old-fashioned love-in-time-of-war melodrama such as one seldom sees anymore and which the film makes us lament.
2. Its strong suit is that it's a richly woven war drama that also tells a fascinating romantic story.
3. It does come pretty close to being as good a time as you could conceivably have at a movie that deals with this kind of material.
4. It's a piquant story but unfortunately the movie creaks with European-style artifice.
5. ou'll have to amble through Gloomy Sunday's less than remarkable, albeit haunting, first half (but it) swells up to a fitting bookend and zinger of a finish.
6. It has enough opulent, oversized romanticism to make it a guilty pleasure, not to mention three attractive and appealing characters and, of course, that song.
7. A great old-fashioned romance worth savoring again and again in repeated viewings.
8. A beautiful period piece.
9. Director/co-writer Rölf Schöbel's tight, philosophically sound narrative shows the essential relation of nationalist offenses to personal demons like lust, envy and blind resentment.
10. Despite the movie's occasional overripe charm, it's hard to see Gloomy Sunday as anything more than handsomely crafted cheese.


Critic consensus:The Edukators engagingly plays out the clash between youthful idealism and older pragmaticism.

Numbered reviews:1. Sticking it to the man, German-style, is the subject of this smart, kicky little gem that owes as much to Guy Debord and the Situationists of yore.
2. There's too much 'growing,' too much 'sharing' and way too much dialogue that's straight out of a freshman poli-sci class.
3. A kinder, gentler Fight Club...
4. The Edukators makes clear that everyone plays by rules they didn't make, then excuses themselves for not changing the world.
5. The romantic triangle at the heart of the story isn't particularly suspenseful, and the all-important politics unfortunately feel facile at best.
6. Intelligent, entertaining and, yes, educational as it looks at the nature of political activism now and then.
7. It ends interestingly, but it would've ended better, and played better, had it been half an hour shorter.
8. Like its protagonists, it means well, but gets mixed up. Too easily.
9. A mixed bag of style and ethics fluidly formed into an entertaining and thought-provoking whole.
10. Starts strong, with an ingratiatingly anarchic vibe, but quickly devolves into a hectoring socialist lecture: a cinematic version of Kenner's My First Revolution playset.


Critic consensus:Thoroughly overwrought in true Bollywood fashion, Kites is deeply flawed -- and too effervescently charming to resist.

Numbered reviews:
1. Kites is an aromatic, cinematic Indian mutton stew -- if that sounds different from usual movie fare, it is. It's a Bollywood mixture of romance, violence, action, music, and differing cultures and languages. Kites flutters and plummets.
2. To anyone versed in Bollywood conventions, it's a natural outgrowth of the genre, and a comically overwrought but still generally fun time.
3. a straight-to-video tale that somehow mysteriously managed to find its way to the silver screen.
4. Not even the incoherent mishmash of plot...can entirely dim the appeal of this match-up between a blue-eyed Punjabi and a blue-eyed Mexican of almost equal comeliness.
5. Often terrible, yet completely engrossing film from Indian director Anurag Basu.
6. A lush, lavish Bollywood-meets-Hollywood fantasy, available for viewing in both a shorter and longer version, courtesy of Brett Ratner.
7. The pulp is served thick, with so much sincerely purple passion it's disarming.
8. It's a film that proves the concept "overwrought" is the same in every language.
9. By the third act, you find the characters and story growing on you and the romance, despite the histrionics, moving.
10. The result is a lovers-on-the-lam blast of pure pulp escapism, so devoted to diversion that you probably wonâ(TM)t even notice the corn.