Critic consensus:The Perfect Holiday is the perfect example of Christmas movie clichés run amok.

Numbered reviews:1. There's just no cynicism in this whole story. As if a woman knows how to take a compliment. But this movie allows you to suspend disbelief and buy into a woman who can say thank you.
2. The movie's reach extends beyond it's grasp.
3. Bad Santa! No cookie!
4. I'd rather watch 90 minutes of a flickering yule log video than sit through this overcooked Christmas goose again.
5. It's deplorable that these two stars have been reduced to appearing in such garbage.
6. Perfect Holiday is far from an offensive effort. It's just pathetic and forgettable, and when it comes to Christmas cheer, mediocrity should never be left under the tree.
7. Love eventually conquers all, as expected, but not before we're forced to sit through a nearly endless parade of clichés, unfunny jokes, and empty drama.
8. Christmas fable is cute and tame, but unoriginal.
9. Queen Latifah and Terrence Howard just show up enough in The Perfect Holiday to either pick up a paycheck or return some kind of mysterious unpaid debt to writer-director Lance Rivera.
10. "The Perfect Holiday" isn't perfect. But it does contain moments of merriment.


Critic consensus:Aimless storytelling undermines the gripping, unsettling subject of this film.

Numbered reviews:1. It's horrifying (and R-rated) if not utterly relentless; it sucks your breath away, perhaps too much.
2. As enveloping as it is darkly cautionary!
3. This well-told and solidly acted story of his rise and fall is not a pretty sight, but, as with a car wreck, it is riveting nevertheless. It is almost impossible to look away.
4. A movie to slit your wrist to.
5. Permanent Midnight offers nothing we haven't seen before.
6. Pick it up for Ben Stiller's sake--a great first dramatic role.
7. Wicked sense of humor!
8. The movie gets credit for not making the high life seem colorful or funny.
9. Rollicking! A high-energy adaptation!
10. Witty!


Critic consensus:The unconverted will remain just as perplexed as ever, but for gleeful Gleeks, The 3D Concert Movie delivers exactly what it promises.

Numbered reviews:
1. Here is the problem: If you separate these kids from their characters, if you remove their showtunes from the storylines that make them so dazzling in the fantasy-reality play of the series, then Glee is stripped of its core appeal.
2. Don't be puzzled; just go with it -- that's the Glee spirit.
3. The television hit Glee will inevitably jump the shark - or dance over it - as pop culture phenomena do. A decade from now, people may wonder what all the fuss was about. More folks than Gleeks choose to believe exist are wondering that now.
4. The layers of artifice are many, but they always are; the original show has never aspired to be anything but a cheeky, tuneful and multicultural spin on hoary high school stereotypes.
5. Following in the live-film footsteps of Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie transposes its flash-in-the-pan teen-pop phenomenon to three-dimensions with mundane, for-fans-only results.
6. You know you want that slushee in your face (in 3D), Gleeks!
7. With touching real-life underdog stories woven through the concert, Glee: 3D hits all the right notes, even if the 3-D was completely unnecessary.
8. 'Greatest hits' show is tame enough for tween Gleeks.
9. A gleeful good time if Glee is your thing.
10. Quite painless, and, what's more, a whole lotta fun, with many moments of pure musical electricity.