Critic consensus:Chicken Run has all the charm of Nick Park's Wallace & Gromit, and something for everybody. The voice acting is fabulous, the slapstick is brilliant, and the action sequences are spectacular.

Numbered reviews:1. This wonderful visual treat is done in stop-action clay animation, a form which is both substantial and magical. It's as if the clay figures kids make have managed to take on a life of their own.
2. This first feature by Nick Park and Peter Lord, the team that brought you Wallace and Gromit, is a diabolically witty piece of work, a haymaker.
3. The sly, sardonic flight of fancy known as Chicken Run is a delightful epic of fowl deeds, quests for freedom and poultry heroics from the off-kilter English cartoon house, Aardman Animation.
4. Like Wallace & Gromit, it's a paean to British eccentricity, equal parts cluelessness and hopefulness, full of English slang and dry Brit humor.
5. Run to Chicken Run. This clay-animation comedy is the most entertaining animal story since Babe.
6. The film is brilliantly voiced across the board, with special notice to Mel Gibson as Rocky and Julia Sawalha as Ginger.
7. It's nothing less than a stop-motion tour de force, bursting with charm, humor, invention and eye-popping mise en scene.
8. With its winking homages to films like Stalag 17 and The Great Escape, Run is visually inventive, its characters plump with personality and, for a bunch of chickens, ever so brave.
9. Indeed, it's the best movie comedy to come out of England since Monty Python packed up the circus.
10. Chicken Run contains some gorgeous, destined-to-be-classic set pieces, and this is where the Aardman production team flex their animation muscles.


Critic consensus:Steve McQueen is cool as ice in this thrilling police procedural that also happens to contain the arguably greatest car chase ever.

Numbered reviews:1. For all of the talk about its legendary car chase through the streets of San Francisco -- and it is justified -- Bullitt idles far tool long in the slow lane when it should be blowing by the minivans and the carpoolers.
2. Classic McQueen. He's a badass and that car chase still holds up.
3. It's more than just that great car chase. The whole film is gritty, down-to-earth and enjoyable.
4. Steve McQueen is nevertheless very impressive in his role.
5. If there is any one of his many movie roles that best exemplifies the McQueen persona, it would have to be this one.
6. McQueen is great in Bullitt, and the movie is great, because director Peter Yates understands the McQueen image and works within it. He winds up with about the best action movie of recent years.
7. Stlick, stylish and ineffably cool, this was perhaps McQueen's defining role. Also mention goes to the uncreditied star of the film; San Francisco.
8. Even though the story almost makes no sense and the Oscar-winning editing has several illogical cuts, Bullitt is an exquisitely satisfying motion picture, particularly if there is still an adolescent boy lodged somewhere in your psyche.
9. A terrific movie, just right for Steve McQueen -- fast, well acted, written the way people talk.
10. One of the cinema's very best car-chase sequences -- set amid the hilly, windy San Francisco streets -- caps this quintessential Steve McQueen policier.


Critic consensus:Thrilling and superbly acted, The Hunger Games captures the dramatic violence, raw emotion, and ambitious scope of its source novel.

Numbered reviews:
1. Director Gary Ross generally avoids the elaborate exterior shots and special effects that dominate high-concept blockbusters.
2. If The Hunger Games on screen doesn't exactly catch fire (as does its hero Katniss Everdeen), its savvy pop culture mash-up and the charge of teens in life-and-death peril remain intact.
3. It's rare that a film based on a Young Adult novel is able to juggle so many powerful issues so profoundly.
4. Where Collins' book paid careful attention to detail, Ross pays far too little. Characters never become exhausted or desperate or gaunt; they don't even get chapped lips or broken nails.
5. I can recommend The Hunger Games with an asterisk. It is an intriguing - and maybe even close to original - story weighed down by a plot that is starving for tension.
6. While missing a bit of emotional heft, The Hunger Games ends up being an excellent dystopian fable.
7. Director Muddles Games.
8. Viewers who like a side order of political allegory with their science fiction will find much to savor here. So will romantics, fans of feminist heroines and action enthusiasts. "The Hunger Games" is that rare creation, an event movie of real significance.
9. An often riveting, occasionally underwhelming chronicle of a competition forcing teenagers to kill each other, and the brave resilience of the world's best big sister.
10. [VIDEO] Everything about "The Hunger Games" is a rehash. If not for Jennifer Lawrence's ever-commanding performance, there would be no redeeming value for a movie that goes on two-and-a-half hours too long.