Q: 1. If ever there were a shamelessly preachy attempt to scare teen girls out of having unprotected sex, this is it.
2. To see Tamblyn's work here, to see her character almost simultaneously embody pain, terror, anguish, embarrassment, regret and just about any emotion you can think of, is to watch the kind of acting the medium exists to provide.
3. Tamblyn's surprisingly measured performance commands attention.
4. ...a fine and foreboding duet of character study
5. Apart from Swinton's fine performance, what largely distinguishes this is Brougher's sharp narrative focus.
6. A movie that can wound you.
7. It's remarkable how close the director gets to these two characters, and how quietly.
8. You are likely to be discussing this film long into the night.
9. By remaining physically and emotionally attuned to her actors rather than the considerable melodramatic heft of her story, Brougher avoids the towel-wringer this unfortunately topical story could have been.
10. It's a spare, minimalist work, filled with elegantly lit, stark interiors which contrast with the emotional and psychological turmoil seething within the characters.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: The premise has all the trappings of melodrama, but the excellent performances give the characters complexity and empathy.


Q: 1. As elegantly crafted as it often is, Anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that, hampered by an undeveloped script, ultimately pulls up lame.
2. [Anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense.
3. Un Redemption de Adam Sandler.
4. Both Sandler and Anderson are, it turns out, acutely attuned to the infinite, painful costs of consumer culture.
5. Adam SANDLER! In an ART FILM!
6. This is one bizarre movie, but I like it anyway.
7. Perfect example of a picture that most film critics will likely adore and most regular audiences will likely snore through.
8. ...a visual song of vulnerability, with a rhythm vaulting from discord to harmony and back again in vibrating organic-colored tones, as if the whole film were breathing on its own.
9. ...an angry, raw, shockingly beautiful romantic comedy that tests the limits of our every expectation.
10. A movie joyfully alive with possibility, from a filmmaker willing to take big gambles and force them to pay off, and with a star who has the courage to redefine his image.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: Odd, touching, and unique, Punch-Drunk Love is also delightfully funny, utilizing Adam Sandler's comic persona to explore the life of a lonely guy who finds love.


Q: 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.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

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


Q: 1. Traces the band's 20-year odyssey in creating Dada you can dance to.
2. A documentary that's as heavy on laughs as it is on humble pie.
3. You'll find yourself donning that wonderful half-smile John L. comfortably dons while singing.
4. Their sheer existence affirms that all things corporate and bland don't always win out -- that music can be intimate, political and alienating, sometimes all on the same album.
5. Does ample justice to the complexity, even profundity, of a creative collaboration that has brought deep joy and meaning to generations of fans throughout a career that just entered its third decade.
6. A gift for those already in the fold, for those who get the joke and just want to savor it with other like-minded fans.
7. Both of the Johns -- Flansburgh in his ever-present plaid shirts, Linnell with his coy smile and asymmetrical bob -- come across as engaging and intriguing.
8. The movie provides nearly as much pleasure as a greatest-hits CD -- although not quite as much as hearing 'Don't Let's Start' for the very first time.
9. The movie offers a generous helping of rock 'n' roll but no sex or drugs on the side, unless you count buckets of coffee, the group's stimulant of choice.
10. Despite Schnack's half-hearted attempt to divide the film into chapters, his film is too unstructured to hold the interest of non-fans who might have appreciated a somewhat less hagiographic approach.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A:
Consensus: A clever, absorbing documentary about They Might Be Giants, a musical duo whose brainy, idiosyncratic brand of pop has earned them decades of cult success.