Critic consensus:Fans can expect a good laugh as the cast from Smith's previous films reunite for Jay and Silent Bob's last bow. The loose plotting and crude language may be too much for others though.

Numbered reviews:1. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is one big, fat guilty pleasure.
2. [Smith's] funniest movie yet.
3. One big inside joke where you're rewarded in huge laughs if you know the info.
4. Budgeted at $20 million, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back contains many remarkable things for a Smith movie.
5. It's not by any means a good movie. But Jay and Silent Bob is one heck of a good laugh.
6. A plodding infomercial, pushing everything from graphic novels to Smith's old DVDs; it all amounts to product placement for View Askew merch.
7. About one-third of Jay and Silent Bob doesn't play at all.
8. Not since South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut have we seen this high a concentration of gross-out gags, expletive-laced one-liners, homosexual jokes and bodily function humor -- and all shaped by Smith's intelligence and wit.
9. A low-brow comic masterpiece with something to tickle and offend everyone.
10. The movie dribbles and drags in patches, which is supposed to be OK since it's stoner humor, but Smith has it in him to do much better.


Critic consensus:Firehouse Dog's cute premise is ruined with endless fart and poop jokes, and an overlong run time.

Numbered reviews:1. It may not set the box office on fire, but this canine caper is more agreeable than your average underdog tale.
2. ...so overstuffed with heavy themes and convoluted plot lines that it barely manages to squeeze in the requisite gags about canine flatulence.
3. A likable but ungainly mutt of a movie.
4. The innocuous family film Firehouse Dog runs 111 minutes, which puts it a solid 21 minutes over what should be the legal limit for this sort of thing.
5. A quality dramedy that knows how to satisfy its target audience. Rexxx is talented in tricks and stunts, but this is Josh Hutcherson's film all the way.
6. Won't go down in the books as one of the great canine movies of all time. And it would be far more enjoyable with commercial breaks.
7. Like a loyal pet, Firehouse Dog ends up being a fun family experience all ages will enjoy.
8. Despite every expected turn of events, this is a real hero story.
9. [The dog] looks like a cross between a rat and a llama. And he burps, farts, and even poops on dinner.
10. Firehouse Dog has good fire action, an engaging cast and enough vividly shot turns, surprises and bowwow reactions to hold the firm attention of pet lovers from age 5 on up. Go fetch.


Critic consensus:A complex portrait of an immigrant family, The Secret of the Grain is a sprawling, intimate film with many fine performances.

Numbered reviews:
1. Kechiche projects onto the viewer an immigrant population's impatient longing for liberty, equality and success, concocting a dish that is no more bitter or half-baked than cultural exile itself.
2. ...a boisterous, sprawling affair with time outs for small intimacies and a last act that defies expectations.
3. The Secret of the Grain is crowd-pleasing in the sense that the story and characters are easy to identify with...belongs somewhere between the arthouse and the multiplex.
4. A year of uncommonly strong French releases hits its peak with Abdellatif Kechiche's richly entertaining and complex humanistic saga about an extended French-Arab family in the south of France.
5. After two and a half hours, The Secret of the Grain, ends, as arbitrarily as it began.
6. [A] captivating film.
7. Give some patience to The Secret of the Grain and the rewards are there for the reaping.
8. The film manages to be both an homage to women and a heartbreaking cultural commentary, and it's intense.
9. Wonderfully directed, beautifully acted and thoroughly engaging drama that's so naturalistic that you often feel you're watching a documentary.
10. This is both fascinating domestic melodrama and damning indictment of the intolerance that can exist across all sections of society.