1. Herzog is a superb interviewer, never bludgeoning the interviewees with his power as filmmaker nor shying away out of discretion or discouragement.
2. Werner Herzog has a well-deserved reputation for tackling difficult, risky subjects. It took courage to enter the Lone Star State and wade into the mire of capital punishment.
3. The star filmmaker, oft mocked for verging on self-parody, keeps his Teutonic explorer persona in check and allows his subjects' emotional outpourings-sadness, shame, dread, and desperation, and unexpected glimmers of hope and happiness-to set the tone.
4. As it winds to its inevitable conclusion, viewers are left to ponder right and wrong, and most will have the same mixed feelings they had before they took their first bite of popcorn. This looks to be on the short list for Oscar contenders.
5. A virtuoso work, unparalleled in Herzog's career. And it'll just break your heart.
6. A smart documentary that takes sides in the death penalty debate but never shies away from the horrendous crimes at the center of the story.
7. Herzog is empathetic and non-judgmental, even as his interview subjects try to rationalize their lives, declare their innocence and the like.
8. Questions if the state has the right to murder.
9. It is also a devastating portrait of the culture of crime, drug and alcohol abuse, and broken families ...
10. This is humane, fascinating documentary filmmaking that is willing to confront insurmountable issues. And as is the case with most true crime material: truth is stranger than fiction.
Consensus: Another probing, insightful look at an interesting subject, Werner Herzog explores the American prison system with passion and not politics.
Q: 1. Writer-director John Hoffman leaves no canine cliche unturned in his pandering script.
2. No, this isn't the stuff of a kiddie classic like Holes. But, to quote from another movie with a vocal four-legged protagonist, it'll do.
3. Just don't be surprised if very soon you find yourself scratching at the door to be let out.
4. Though the youngest viewers might enjoy it, compared to the classic flicks about boys and their dogs, it's the runt of the litter.
5. As children's film premises go, this is a cute one, but the execution is a failure.
6. A movie that just doesn't live up to its potential.
7. A swell flick for kid.
8. It's fun in a kiddie-flick sort of way.
9. You wish Good Boy! aspired to a less formulaic cleverness and sentimentality than shown here.
10. Beyond any real creative aspirations, Good Boy! is a movie for dog lovers.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Good Boy! should appeal to kids. Adults, however, might consider it a dog.
1. Searing and somber, Unforgiven shatters every myth of the Wild West that Hollywood has ever thrown at us, and does it will an unmistakable ring of truth.
2. A rigorous deconstruction of both fictitious violence and Eastwood's own career as a trigger-happy 'hero.'
3. Vivid morality tale for adults about the difficulty we all have overcoming deeply ingrained
4. Clint Eastwood teve bons professores.
5. A classic Western for the ages.
6. Unforgiven (1992) is producer/director/star Clint Eastwood's own tribute to his legendary legacy in Sergio Leone's low-budget 'spaghetti' westerns,
7. Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism -- on all those burdens he has been carrying with such good grace for decades.
8. One of Unforgiven's assets is the way it overturns conventions, taking the man who is typically the hero and making him the villain, while transforming the traditional bad guy into a sympathetic protagonist.
9. The action scenes have an almost documentary realism about them. Up until the final gun battle the film seems like a very authentic slice of the Old West.
10. The film at its heart is the first in a line of revisionist superhero movies.
Consensus: As both director and star, Clint Eastwood strips away decades of Hollywood varnish applied to the Wild West, and emerges with a series of harshly eloquent statements about the nature of violence.
Q: 1. [Kore-eda] pokes some fun at class differences, but his overall aim is serious - we get a powerful sense of how unsettling it would be to live through such a wrenching event. Remarkably, he conveys this with charm and restraint.
2. In general, the speed and stoicism with which Keita and Ryusei adjust to the familial maneuvering is, quite frankly, weird.
3. A moving drama about parenthood from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda.
4. If you've seen Hirokazu Koreeda's films - Nobody Knows, Still Life, I Wish - then just the announcement that a new one, Like Father, Like Son, has arrived is all you need to know.
5. A bittersweet musing about the nature of parenthood and about the conflict between nature and nurture, it is as banal and insightful as its title.
6. A deeply affecting Japanese family tale from Hirokazu Kore-eda, renowned for his films about parents, children, blood bonds and loss.
7. Writer and director Hirokazu Koreeda does not pretend that there are easy answers in his film, which at times plays almost like a fable. But the emotions and heartbreak are always grounded in reality.
8. The performances and subtle directing in the latter part of the film make Like Father, Like Son a thoughtful, graceful meditation on fatherhood.
9. For fans of the "nature versus nurture" debate, it's like walking into a candy store.
10. Gem of a Family Drama
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Sensitively written, smartly directed, and powerfully performed, Like Father, Like Son uses familiar-seeming elements to tell a thought-provoking story.
1. Easily, one of the best pictures of 2001.
2. Isn't anybody else bothered by the fact that these digital 'films' look like used toilet paper?
3. When all is said and done, it is still a filmed play, but compelling all the same
4. Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Uma Thurman all turn in very solid performances.
5. Worth watching, even if it never transcends its self-imposed limitations.
6. For the most part, Tape is smart and deftly executed, with Hawke, in particular, as the resentful Vince, making a vivid impression.
7. For a movie set completely inside a dingy motel room, Tape is a thrilling piece of experimental cinema.
8. If Tape's claustrophobia doesn't get to you, and if you've got the intestinal fortitude to spend nearly 90 minutes in intimate proximity with two equally unlikeable guys, the movie does exert a certain propulsive fascination.
9. There's a place in the world of the cinema for filmed theater, especially when it's done as well as it is here.
10. The performances are amazingly charged and fluid.

Consensus: Taking place in a hotel room, Tape has the feel of a play, but its engrossing psychodrama allows its stars to shine.