Critic consensus:As simple and authentic as the gritty South Philly invirons in which it's set in, Invincible sends a uplifting and heartfelt message packed with an athletic enthusiasm that shouldn't be missed.

Numbered reviews:1. For all its paint-by-numbers plotting, there's nothing unduly irritating about Invincible, either in execution or in marketing -- it's precisely the film it was meant to be.
2. A conventional Disney story of an ordinary guy striving to achieve his sports dream, full of uplift and warmth. (Think of The Rookie and Miracle.)
3. The genre shows serious signs of wear in this needlessly fictionalized feature about Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender who improbably won a spot on the Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.
4. The most remarkable accomplishment of Invincible is to make a mid-'70s musical soundtrack sound spectacular.
5. [Wahlberg] makes Vince the kind of modest, aw-shucks guy worth rooting for, which is what makes Invincible a winner.
6. If this movie doesn't make you want to stand up and cheer you probably don't have a pulse. A rousing achievement on every level.
7. There's a danger in reducing pictures like this to the sum of their lessons, at the expense of recognizing them as satisfying, if flawed, genre exercises.
8. Wahlberg and the rest of the solid cast sell this ESPN equivalent of a Lifetime movie.
9. There's an air of disbelief onscreen as to what's going on, and everyone is so busy preparing for the fall that we all know is going to come but doesn't, that makes this not seem like the fairy tale it's supposed to be.
10. Invincible does nothing to improve on the already very tired sports underdog theme.


Critic consensus:Lacking enough material for a full-length movie, D.E.B.S. is short on both plot and laughs.

Numbered reviews:1. Delirious sendup of girl-power films.
2. Something supremely silly yet slyly subversive: a gay girl-power romance in skimpy exploitation clothing.
3. The characters are two-dimensional parodies, trapped in a movie that doesn't know how to do parody. It's a good idea for a short, dragged out into a feature-length film.
4. D.E.B.S. is campy, but infused with enough intelligent humor to make one forgive the occasional misstep.
5. less daring or funny than a sub-par WB show
6. A debacle, a debasement of common sense and debatably the worst movie to be released so far this year.
7. Makes Charlie's Angels seem intelligent!
8. A heat-free pseudo-lesbian spoof of Charlie's Angels by way of Heathers.
9. D.E.B.S. is light and airy and frequently quite fun, yet one can't help but feel that the feature-length version is too little butter spread over too much toast.
10. You might think there's no downside to a movie that peeks up the skirts of babes in micro-minis, but writer-director Angela Robinson's dimwitted satire is libido-killing proof to the contrary.


Critic consensus:American Teen skates some thin ice with its documentary ethics but, in the end, presents a charming and stylish (if packaged) tale.

Numbered reviews:
1. At what point does the filming of kids behaving immaturely become an invasion of privacy, even if parents signed consent forms?
2. American Teen is The Breakfast Club in real time.
3. This being senior year, Burstein can't help but capture some genuine drama, but there's a stage-managed quality to the movie that reminded me of MTV reality shows.
4. American Teen shows how a documentary can be as moving and suspenseful as the best narrative feature.
5. This is an odd little film that really sneaks up on you, packing a much bigger emotional punch than you'd anticipate.
6. Eventually Burstein moves past these objections and slips under your skin.
7. Faux-doc or not, Burstein's film is funny and engaging, and it gives us an amazing intimacy and identification with these characters as it skillfully strips away the layers of their cliched teenage stereotypes to reveal the true person beneath.
8. Burstein's camera is right on Mitch's face when he presumably first notices Hannah playing with her band on the school's stage - happy accident? planted idea? editing with hindsight?
9. Our appetite for watching young people do silly, overly sincere, and sometimes brave things has been slaked by the glut of junk-food TV shows on the subject.
10. Burstein either isn't aware of or has made a conscious decision to ignore the very "non-fiction" filmmaking that her subjects and their peers are likely most exposed to.