question: Brilliant performances, lush cinematography, and complex storytelling deserve audience's attention.

numbered reviews: 1. Profound and haunting!
2. Repetitious. Annoying!
3. What we never discover - and it is a fatal lapse in films like this - is why music has so seized Jackie, why it is important for her to be an artist, at the risk of her sanity.
4. You're so disconnected from the protagonists in this film...that you really don't care what happens to either Jackie or Hilary.
5. Depressing rather than uplifting; it does not offer catharsis-that relief or discharge of the sadness that would arise out of new understanding or insight.
6. The story is told in such a chopped-up way that it often seems pointless and certainly devoid of much-needed editing.
7. An uncommonly well-rounded portrait of a tormented genius.
8. has already drawn comparisons to 'Shine' ...But 'Hilary' is a more accomplished and demanding film, one that doesn't find a convenient villain to pin cellist Jacqueline Du Pre's troubles on.
9. A thought-provoking and poignant ode to Jackie du Pre's life.
10. A flawed but powerful Shine-esque tale of love, music, and madness!


question: Disney's take on the Victor Hugo classic is dramatically uneven, but its strong visuals, dark themes, and message of tolerance make for a more-sophisticated-than-average children's film.

numbered reviews: 1. The Hunchback's message -- that beauty is only skin deep -- goes only so far.
2. The latest and most uncertain of Disney's animated efforts, with its manic mood swings and cloying, none-too-cuddly hero.
3. By sticking faithfully to the broader themes of Hugo's story -- those of desolation and desire, of trust and betrayals thereof -- the creators have fashioned the most poignant and deeply moral story to roll off the Disney storyboards in decades.
4. A high point in the renaissance of Disney animation.
5. Much more than just a moving, emotionally resonant cartoon--it is a moving, emotionally resonant motion picture, period.
6. Hunchback will be instructive to children. But the movie felt a little overly educational to me.
7. There is no question that computer technology is allowing Disney animators an ever-increasing freedom, and the opportunity to create some astonishing images.
8. I wish Disney had stuck to a lesser-known and lesser-loved book.
9. Make your children see the movie. If they get to like the deformed main character, then you know these kids can tell the difference between right and wrong.
10. This is the least-enjoyable animated feature to come from the studio since its 1989 rebirth.


question: A thin plot is disguised by high octane dancing and action in this Bollywood crossover comedy.

numbered reviews: 1. Less a Bollywood bonbon than a pan-Asian fusion dish, this combination of Indian musical and Chinese chopsocky is, nonetheless, delicious fun.
2. If Slumdog Millionaire's success has Hollywood thinking American audiences are ready for the authentic Indian movie experience, Chandni Chowk to China could quickly put the kibosh on that notion.
3. It's a kung fu action comedy played out to a Bollywood beat.
4. If only it were as much fun as its trailer!
5. This is a pretty entertaining work for the most part despite its unevenness and for those who have never experienced an authentic Bollywood film before, it will serve as a perfectly good introduction to that style of filmmaking.
6. Chandni Chowk to China seamlessly adds kung fu to the usual blend of comedy, dance and melodrama.
7. The movie's ostensible distinction is its coupling of Bollywood and kung fu, but it's really a self-realization course dressed up as kinetic comedy.
8. This Indian/Chinese cinematic hybrid is likable and entertaining but overlong and occasionally hokey.
9. If Chandni Chowk To China is not exactly original, it steals wisely, resulting in a movie that moves and entertains (even if it's too long by at least a half-hour).
10. In fact, at two hours and 34 minutes, CC2C is too much by a half: too much dancing and fighting and too much footage of the Great Wall of China.


question: Jet Li and Jason Statham find themselves on opposing sides in the immensely boring War, which is full of clichйs but short on action.

numbered reviews:
1. Not so much a narrative as a barrage of violent images designed to beat the brain into abject surrender.
2. What is it good for? Absolutely nothin', unless you're in the market for 90-plus minutes of vacant macho brooding, dog-eared action-flick clichés and so-so fight scenes that squander the talents of its star players.
3. In spite of a late-game adrenaline surge, the hoped-for fireworks between Li and Statham never quite materialize.
4. Rent a John Woo movie instead.
5. Not exactly the Jet Li/Jason Statham battle royale we had been promised.
6. If it weren't for the last act, the film would have ended up being just as functional as any cheesy action film from the 80s.
7. Just as you think to yourself, ''This flick would be way better if it had Van Damme playing twins,'' along comes a plot twist so ingenious that it almost redeems the rest of the flick.
8. This assignment may have provided Statham a decent payday, but it's not his shining hour.
9. Lacking even the galvanizing action sequences that would have compensated for suffering through its formulaic plot, this is a thoroughly forgettable exploitationer.
10. Pure straight-to-video rope-a-dope.