Critic consensus:Aside from its clichéd resolution, Disturbia is a tense, subtle thriller with a noteworthy performance from Shia LaBeouf.

Numbered reviews:1. LaBeouf, a soulful-eyed wiseguy with a complex emotional repertoire, keeps the movie interesting even after utter predictability sets in.
2. Okay, so DreamWorks has remade Rear Window with teens, but could it actually be good? Welcome back to the edge of your seat.
3. as an homage to old-fashioned suspense films, you could do a lot worse
4. ...what the director gets right - very right in the move's first two acts - is the ways kids relate and interact in a modern world where iPods and laptops are ubiquitous, where a lot of the world is reducible to digital blips.
5. Rear Window gets a facelift for the iPod generation.
6. Disturbia isn't your first choice this weekend if you're in your 20s or older, but for the crowd who are about the same age as Shia and the gang, this is great Friday night material.
7. If not perfection, "Disturbia" achieves something more than most modern thrillers - the right to describe itself in that genre and a few others. This hodgepodge homage becomes stupid and shrill in its final reel, but it's a nifty good time.
8. LaBeouf and Roemer have a frisky chemistry, and the always-reliable Morse is a delicious devil.
9. Rear Window redone for a more paranoid age, an age that embraces its paranoia as The New Normal, and not something to be disturbiaed about at all.
10. Crisp performances, a creepy bad guy, absorbing plot twists, capable direction, and a script that has some telling points to make about the way we saturate ourselves with media make this thriller, like Kale's neighbors, very watchable.


Critic consensus:Though it doesn't quite answer all of the questions it raises, Winnebago Man is nevertheless a fascinating, hilarious, and surprisingly poignant look at a geniunely colorful internet celebrity.

Numbered reviews:1. What makes the film so enjoyable is how it keeps defying expectations in its survey of the rough edges, sharp mind and iconoclastic personality...
2. When the director laments, "I feel like I've stepped into the Winnebago Man outtakes," we can only concur.
3. Winnebago Man, which appears to be notably less staged than other documentaries of this ilk, doesn't relentlessly explore all the corners of Rebney's life -- which makes him an even more fascinating subject.
4. It isn't perfect, but hell, neither was the Winnebago.
5. A hilarious film.
6. Absorbing and thought-provoking.
7. The film is less about Jack, his reputation and performance, than it is about itself. Real or not.
8. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer went searching for the man behind the rants. Against all odds, Rebney manages to emerge with his dignity intact.
9. Perhaps the most disturbing issue raised in Ben Steinbauer's fascinating and often hilarious Winnebago Man has to do with the Internet's awesome ability to reduce complex and apparently dangerous behaviour to the level of banal spectacle.
10. Steinbauer doesn't shy away from the moral queasiness of that arrangement, and that's what gives Winnebago Man a lot of its appeal -- that tension between the considerable laughter it provokes and the questions raised about that laughter.


Critic consensus:At times a tense and provocative thriller, Civic Duty struggles to move beyond its one-note premise.

Numbered reviews:
1. laughable and immature
2. The film's anti-Islamic tone, intended to show Terry's frame of mind, detracts from whatever helpful message the filmmakers may have hoped to impart.
3. A sharp 9/11 twist on Rear Window paranoia, Civic Duty is all the more effective for its chilling plausibility.
4. An all-around disappointment.
5. Once the story's events reach a climactic pitch, the film stagnates in place for too long and loses momentum.
6. This little paranoid thriller...does a superb job exploring how middle class feelings of entitlement to the American Dream are reflected in post 9/11 racial stereotyping.
7. It's an ineptly put-together concoction that, despite its political musings, offers nothing new to the viewer.
8. Dig deep down into some bad movies and you occasionally find a good idea at the center. Civic Duty isn't one of those movies.
9. Canadian director Jeff Renfroe builds only off-the-shelf suspense as Terry's suspicions increase.
10. Echoes of Rear Window abound, but any audience sympathy for the self-appointed detective is thwarted by Krause's typically sulky performance.