1. Creative beyond all reason or expectation, this deserving winner of the Best Animated Feature Oscar is a phenomenal achievement.
2. The imagery is rich, colorful and imaginative -- as you'd expect from Miyazaki.
3. A rich and fantastic world awaits us in this extraordinary film from Hayao Miyazaki (and a crew of thousands), through which our little heroine has to progress and learn responsibility amidst great dangers and fearsome spirits.
4. A wierd and fulfilling fantasy, chalk full of inspired transporting imagery, crucial to the success of animated films but in short supply of late.
5. It's weird, wonderful, and not necessarily for kids.
6. Taking a page from "Alice In Wonderland" seems to have helped.
7. It's the sort of film that gives rise to the awed question, 'How did he do that?'
8. As soft and strange as a dream.
9. Repeatedly reminded me of the later Oz books, with Chihiro's Dorothyesque role in a surreal and perilous fantasy land.
10. It's a wonderful example of traditional Japanese anime, and a flat-out terrific film.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Spirited Away is a dazzling, enchanting, and gorgeously drawn fairy tale that will leave viewers a little more curious and fascinated by the world around them.

1. The movie has good energy, it's easy on the eyes and the strong supporting cast includes Celia Imrie, Anthony Head and Darren Boyd.
2. Parker has a weakness for the outrageous narrative coincidence.
3. When weak British comedies imitate bad American ones, all we get is mediocrity with more verbal velocity.
4. The characters never really emerge as individuals; they're pretty puppets, moving through their prescribed paces.
5. As nice as it is to imagine popular movies depicting lesbian relationships without guilt or trauma, Imagine Me&You ultimately trips over its own daft enthusiasm.
6. Had it not been for the homosexual content this script would have been considered too crappy to film
7. Romance is fine and dandy, but when it's treated as the cake, instead of the icing on it, you hardly end up with an authentic, interesting story
8. I guess there's something progressive going on when a lesbian love story gets to be just as dreadful and tacky as most straight ones.
9. Perabo and Headey sizzle with unrequited desires, and the film, directed by Ol Parker, is often hilarious.
10. The story settles for bad sitcom humor, a pedestrian romantic-comedy plot and a ridiculously sunny conclusion that belies the complexity of the situation and provides every party involved with an easy way out.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Aside from its lesbian theme, Imagine Me & You can only offer more of the same generic rom-com cliches.

1. While The Mist is nothing more than an old-fashioned monster flick, it's one that's been given an impressive facelift.
2. Darabont used the camera crew of the TV series The Shield. But what he really should have done is hire the show's cast.
3. The Mist is a supermarket of B-movie essentials, handsomely stocked with bad science, stupid behavior, chewable lines of dialogue, religious fruitcakes, and a fine display of monsters.
4. The film promises gnarly B-movie goosebumps but delivers an unctuous salve on noisome human nature.
5. Delivers big chills and keeps the goosebumps a'bumpin.
6. There is more going on as it considers class, religion, and the terror of the easy answer to the more difficult questions, or monsters, that life throws with wild abandon.
7. Frank Darabont ditches the warm and fuzzies for out-and-out cynicism about mankind's capacity for goodness and altruism with The Mist.
8. [N]ot only one of the best movies of 2007, it's one of the best horror movies ever made...
9. The bugs and such are gross enough -- and yet so very handsome -- in Frank Darabont's nifty, unusually spry, and almost shockingly pessimistic low-budget adaptation of [Stephen] King's 1980 extended short story.
10. Stephen King's The Mist is a reminder of what a great horror movie is all about.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Frank Darabont's impressive camerawork and politically incisive script make The Mist a truly frightening experience.

1. Crowe and Bettany previously worked together to splendid effect in A Beautiful Mind, and their teamwork here lifts this manly movie to an unusually civilized plane.
2. While the work and expense clearly shows in every frame, it winds up being in the service of a film not quite worthy of it.
3. Forget the plot; see this film because of the way it looks, and expect a few Oscar nominations.
4. A gentleman's action movie.
5. The film's languid pacing quickly grows tedious, and the movie itself, unfortunately, becomes a bore.
6. The details and the epic scale are great, but the story isn't good enough to make it work.
7. A plain old good movie.
8. It's The Perfect Storm with a far more rousing story, or U-571 with hugely better dialogue. I can't help but love this one.
9. Considering how cinema-unfriendly O'Brian was - the author rarely went to the movies, and had to be persuaded to release the film rights -- Master & Commander manages to loosen the shackles of its dry pages.
10. There's no need to be a fan of Patrick O'Brian's 20 Aubrey/Maturin novels to enjoy Peter Weir's adaptation of the first and tenth entries in the series.
What is the critic consensus?
A:
Russell Crowe's rough charm is put to good use in this masterful adaptation of Patrick O'Brian's novel.