1. Super-dog adventure is fun, age-appropriate for kids.
2. BOLT is an insignificant cartoon, but undeniably enjoyable. I was smiling through most of it and I imagine kids will too.
3. Bolt is a good but not great film which should earn Walt Disney Animation a deserved hit even if it won't quite return them to the heights of their own creative and commercial heyday.
4. Easily the best Disney animated film since 2002's Lilo & Stitch... a return to core values for the studio.
5. The 3-D glasses are a pain and the film is too long, but the hamster and cat run away with the show.
6. Let's not underestimate the significance of a workmanlike Disney animation.
7. A frisky addition to that collection of man's best friend movies, with a generous portion of one-joke-fits-all humor to captivate kid and adult audiences alike.
8. Rhino (voiced maniacally by Mark Walton, a Disney story artist who grew up in Salt Lake City) walks away with the movie, or rather rolls away with it in his little hamster ball.
9. With the holiday season officially underway, "Bolt" is the perfect present for the whole family.
10. It's entertaining while it lasts but dissipates from memory the moment it's over.
Consensus: Bolt is a pleasant animated comedy that overcomes the story's familiarity with strong visuals and likable characters.
Q: 1. If you're a sucker for romantic dramas, Dear John will earn your stamp of approval, along with those tears.
2. Eventually Dear John piles on so much tragedy that it becomes laughable, a parade of contrivances keeping the bland lovers apart.
3. On the grand scale of convincing romantic melodramas, "Dear John" falls somewhere between "Antichrist" and "From Paris With Love."
4. A sappy version of the old letters-from-the-trenches weepers of the 1940s that hobbles along despite the best effort of its cast and a director who ought to know better.
5. Though Ms. Seyfried is a lovely actress, her inexperience shows in her climactic scenes, which aren't written very well to begin with, while Mr. Tatum's stolid reserve decays into dull passivity.
6. The leads do have a strong chemistry, and Seyfried brings a spunky confidence to her role.
7. Suffice it to say that for about half its running time, the story earns goodwill with believable depictions of love both found and lost. It loses all that later in the game when it patently stops being honest and starts being Hollywood.
8. Dear John succeeds where Sparks duds like Rodanthe crumbled because it harnesses fresher talents to pull off a comforting tale about the enduring power of love.
9. Even Seyfried, who otherwise makes a credible love interest, couldn't convince me -- or, by the sound of the audience's nervous laughter, anyone else in the theater -- that she had to do what she did.
10. The uneasy combination of the World Trade Center, Sparks and schmaltzmeister director Lasse Hallstrom pushed me perilously close to nausea and diabetic shock, not to mention deep sleep.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Built from many of the same ingredients as other Nicholas Sparks tearjerkers, Dear John suffers from its cliched framework, as well as Lasse Hallstrom's curiously detached directing.
1. It's worth taking the kids yourself.
2. Rugrats again blends poignancy with fun in a way that touches parents, even as it goes for kids with a run of bodily function and booger jokes.
3. Watching Rugrats In Paris ... I am forced to ask myself exactly what range of kids this kiddie movie is actually being pitched at.
4. Predictable and not terribly clever.
5. If you're a parent, you could do a heck of a lot worse than taking the spawn off to catch Rugrats in Paris and if you're a kid, well, you probably already knew that anyway.
6. Fans of the TV show, particularly, will find nothing not to like in this version, and even non-fans may find themselves wondering why they haven't been paying attention to the show all these years.
7. A Tour de France of its own in the Rugrats' latest, funniest and most colorful big-screen trip.
8. Thesp voicings are outstanding, and sometimes reach the level of comic warmth of the Toy Story ensemble.
9. Something for everyone, as it were.
10. More chic and movie-savvy than its predecessor.
Consensus: When the Rugrats go to Paris, the result is Nickelodeon-style fun. The plot is effectively character-driven, and features catchy songs and great celebrity voice-acting.
Q: 1. Cloverfield is a cute concept but little more. Devoid of any genuine character development or notable acting, the film is a slapdash affair which manages to be neither funny nor frightening.
2. Reeves's film works hard to negate any noteworthy meaning from its mayhem.
3. The movie eventually falls into monster movie clichés...If you're into the movie, you won't care. If you're fed up, you'll just laugh.
4. There has never been a film of its kind so intense, so personal, so real.
5. You're still left breathless, wowed and wanting for more.
6. It's the end of the world as captured on an unsteady camcorder, a YouTube panic attack.
7. A relentless, I-thought-my-eyeballs-were-bleeding exercise in visual disorientation.
8. Despite a first reel entirely devoted to establishing characters, Cloverfield is basically a line-'em-up, pick-'em-off horror movie that's effective without being either viscerally frightening or emotionally moving.
9. The low-tech hype is a sham, since it has the support of the sorts of digital effects used in conventional films.
10. While it [the "camcorder ploy"] injects the film with a run-and-gun urgency, the device grows tiresome and ultimately leaves the film shortchanged.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: A sort of Blair Witch Project crossed with Godzilla, Cloverfield is economically paced, stylistically clever, and filled with scares.
1. Gripping and satisfying in a way that no mere summer event movie could ever be.
2. Despite nearly six decades of filmmakers trying to come to grips with [World War II, Saving Private Ryan] feels like the first truly honest attempt to deal with the horrors of combat -- and the terrible responsibility shared by all survivors.
3. For those who are willing to brave the movie's shocking and unforgettable images, Saving Private Ryan offers a singular motion picture experience.
4. Using the overpowering techniques of modern film, Steven Spielberg has cut through the glory-tinged gauze that shrouds World War II to reveal its brutal reality, creating a phenomenology of violence unsurpassed in the history of cinema.
5. A powerful experience.
6. A flawed but masterful film.
7. With complete visual and aural technical mastery, Spielberg and Kaminski thrust us face-first into the fighting, and never let us back out for two hours and forty minutes.
8. A powerful and impressive milestone in the realistic depiction of combat, Saving Private Ryan is as much an experience we live through as a film we watch on screen.
9. A soberly magnificent new war film.
10. Saving Private Ryan may be the most mature war film ever made.

Consensus: Anchored by another winning performance from Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg's unflinchingly realistic war film virtually redefines the genre.