1. There's a wonderful depth that transcends the simple plot and extremely slow-paced storytelling.
2. Through its powerful emotions coupled with exquisite restraint, this 'small' film makes a big impact.
3. Julie Bertuccelli's very beautiful first feature is suffused with indelible humanist values and emotions.
4. If Otar is, finally, a mite thin and predictably structured, that takes little away from the filmmaker and her cast, who work hard at fashioning the most outlandish special effect of all: believable human life.
5. A wonderfully acted film from Georgia that shows how lying to your mom is not always peachy.
6. Drawing on her documentary training, the director distills complex meaning into such perfectly chosen gestures as a foot rubbed, a cigarette smoked, a shampoo interrupted when (with post-Soviet-era regularity) the water fails.
7. Everything about this subtly directed drama enhances its pathos and humor.
8. Ms. Bertuccelli's direction is singularly graceful in allotting enough space to each of her three co-protagonists without tearing apart the fabric of familial solidarity.
9. Since Otar Left sustains a perfect balance of pathos, humor and a clear-headed realism.
10. Only yields its bountiful rewards at the end.
What is the critic consensus?
A: A drama that's both funny and moving.

1. Stunning.
2. Turning into a twisted pretzel, House of Sand and Fog becomes a melodrama straining to make its point.
3. ... a movie about the perils of real estate speculation.
4. Perelman ... has a distinct and shadowy style that gives each scene an edge of menace, but he does not exploit style or draw attention to it.
5. Partially successful.
6. House of Sand and Fog is an intense, thought- provoking movie experience
7. Devastatingly dark and painfully honest, it paints a different side of the immigrant experience while showcasing two phenomenal performances.
8. Connelly, who has often mistaken posing for acting, digs deep here; Aghdashloo ... gives us a portrait of a woman who is both dutiful to her husband and ravaged by his iron will. Kingsley is most impressive of all.
9. Who would think a fight over real estate would be so fascinating, so gut wrenching to watch?
10. A pesar de los excesos del libreto, la película atrapa gracias a la notable dirección de Perelman, apoyada sobre todo en la impecable fotografía de Roger Deakins (...)
What is the critic consensus?
A: Powerful and thought provoking film.

1. Downright hilarious in places ? though I don?t think that?s intentional, because it?s also dull and cliché-ridden.
2. It's too mild-mannered for those who relish horror pictures and too gory and plotless and chatty for everyone else.
3. Just another Wes Craven kills kids running around in the woods movie.
4. the most awful kind of entertainment exploitation in that everything is set up to abuse the audience, not the characters
5. The picture is directed with such a loose, slack hand that you'd think Craven had never directed a slasher-thriller before: I didn't jump once; I never even felt vaguely scared or creeped out.
6. It's your money that's at greater stake with this subpar horror entry in barely noticeable 3D.
7. This dumb, derivative teen slasher movie would be uninspiring coming from any writer-director, let alone one with several genre classics under his belt.
8. All might be good for a flask-to-the-theater laugh, if not for the unconscionable price gouging.
9. Wes Craven's first new movie in five years is a brainless, joyless, and yes, you might even say, soulless teen slasher.
10. It's good, theoretically at least, to have Craven back. But why come back for this?
What is the critic consensus?
A: Dull, joyless, and formulaic, My Soul to Take suggests writer/director Wes Craven ended his five-year filmmaking hiatus too soon.

1. Poorly-staged action sequence, boring exposition, poorly-staged action sequence, boring exposition, etc. etc., The End.
2. Big guns, bigger breasts...
3. In the department of numbing ineptitude, the pacing runs a neck-and-neck race with the dialogue.
4. So pandering and pebble-brained you'd guess it had been test-screened on barnyard animals.
5. Quite simply, I had a blast watching it.
6. An emaciated excuse for entertainment.
7. Right now my greatest fear in life are the words Tomb Raider 2.
8. half-sketched and tedious
9. There is more tension in Jolie's T-shirts than in the dramatic action.
10. Damn! You can toss every page of this script up in the air and no matter what order they fall in, just shoot that sequence.
What is the critic consensus?
A:
Angelina Jolie is perfect for the role of Lara Croft, but even she can't save the movie from a senseless plot and action sequences with no emotional impact.