1. Observe and Report wants very desperately to be a dark comedy. But it doesn't quite get there, as it's not funny enough to hit the comedy dismount and not clever enough to go fully dark.
2. Well, that's 85 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
3. One of the strangest and most daring films of the last five years.
4. A weirdly timely, pitch-black comedy about America the Insanely Angry.
5. It's the best comedy of the year so far because it demands that you forget your ideas about when it's okay to laugh.
6. A potentially brilliant conceptual comedy that fizzles because its writer and director, Jody Hill, doesn't have the guts to go with his spleen.
7. Observe and Report is one of those films that leaves you feeling confused about what you just watched. Luckily the last five minutes make up for the rest of the film.
8. Edgy and exploitive, this vigilante story earns its R-rating for pushing the acceptable boundaries of crude, dark comedy - but it's not for mainstream audiences.
9. Walking out of Observe and Report, I was torn between categorical loathing and perverse admiration.
10. The Jody Hill aesthetic is an acquired taste %u2013 one I thought I had but which Observe and Report tested severely.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Though it has a mean streak, and does not cater to all tastes, Observe and Report has gut-busting laughs and a fully committed Seth Rogen in irresistible form.

1. Without the rosy filter of nostalgia, it's a virtually unwatchable virtual-reality saga.
2. Visually, this film is state of the art, а la 1982, and Jeff Bridges turns in some of his better work.
3. For most people, TRON's importance is as a historical footnote. It's the Model T of our CGI age. But the film's fans are passionate ones.
4. Perhaps one of the more stunning features in motion picture history, creatively adapting mistakes and hunting invention, shaping a movie that displays such curiosity with technology and boldness with sci-fi fantasy.
5. This movie is great. By the way, what kind of mushroom was that again?
6. Aside from CGI sequences, there's nothing compelling here.
7. It does have one or two boring stretches, but the computer world it envisions is fantastic.
8. Tron never reaches a level of excitement commensurate with its effects budget.
9. Tron is loaded with visual delights but falls way short of the mark in story and viewer involvement.
10. Dated effects, of course, but still nerdy fun after all these years.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Though perhaps not as strong dramatically as it is technologically, TRON is an original and visually stunning piece of science fiction that represents a landmark work in the history of computer animation.

1. Subjecting kids to such shoddy junk when they could be watching `Spirited Away' or `Finding Nemo' should count as cinematic child abuse.
2. Grown-ups may have to scrub the sugar from their frontal lobes. But it's not about them, is it? Never was. Never will be.
3. The film's traditional cel animation seems to have reverted back to the lackluster standard of television-quality cartoons.
4. It's one of those little ironies that as interest has flagged in the animated Pokémon movie franchise, the scripts have actually gotten better.
5. Having settled into a formula of maximum action and minimal whimsy for its battery of feature releases, the makers of Pokemon Heroes: Latios & Latias barely raise a ripple as they tread water in this fifth entry.
6. The story's better but there's still the animal cruelty that's disturbing - the trainers have Pokémon battles that resemble 'cockfights for kids' and the wild Pokémon are kept captive in pocketsize PokéBalls when they are not being used for entertainment.
7. Those less obsessed with the colorful creatures will squirm as the the uninspired story -- which could have easily been condensed into a half-hour series episode -- unfolds over the course of 80 long minutes.
8. A tedious, unimaginative affair.
9. The plot is paper-thin, supporting players like the bumbling Team Rocket baddies are mere window dressing and the devious designs of Annie and Oakley are generic at best.
10. Surely a form of child abuse.
What is the critic consensus?
A: This series isn't getting any better.

1. Here is a portrait of a character so sad and hapless, so hard to like, so impossible to empathize with, that watching it feels like an act of unkindness.
2. The story is simple -- almost painfully so -- but it still could have worked had the screenplay been more focused and innovative, and the characters dealt with more satisfyingly.
3. Forced bits of padding such as those just show that the concept really doesn't merit more than the five minutes its allotted on Saturday nights.
4. The movie blows.
5. Little more than a warmed-over TV skit.
6. There's a message in there somewhere, but I'm not sure it's worth seeking out.
7. Redundant, repetitive and not particularly amusing, with an unacceptably low gag-to-laugh ratio.
8. Mary Katherine's best suited for the small screen, so wait for the video.
9. I was amused. I wasn't exactly enthralled, but that's nothing to be surprised about when attending a film based on a 9-minute television skit.
10. The script by Steven Wayne Koren bumps along, using musical numbers and fantasy sequences as filler in a thin plot.
What is the critic consensus?
A:
Dumb script and flat jokes made this another SNL misfire.