Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. I suggest you catch it on a cheapie night in the theatres, or more sensibly, wait for it on video and enjoy it during those long winter months.
2. Could someone please turn down Denzel Washington's Righteousness Meter? It's set too high.
3. A flawed melodrama that gives itself a self-important weight it cannot sustain throughout.
4. Exciting and thought-provoking.
5. Not dramatic enough to deserve merit, not suspenseful enough to attract an action-oriented audience, and so preachy as to be almost ludicrous.
6. The mediocre result is dismayingly unworthy of Washington and Zwick's combined talents.
7. The movie is more successful at creating tension than in building credible characters.
8. The concept deserves more than heroes and villains pointing guns at each other.
9. [Benning] is the only fresh, compelling character in the film.
10. A stimulating, challenging film.

Here is the consensus of critics:An exciting, well-paced action film.

Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. The Best of Youth more than earns its running time.
2. Its storytelling style is as close to the novel form as you'll find on film, both a strengh and a weakness.
3. I dropped outside of time and was carried along by the narrative flow; when the film was over, I had no particular desire to leave the theater, and would happily have stayed another three hours.
4. Despite many charming elements, this movie is not an example of good storytelling.
5. For six hours that seemed more like two, I was wrapped up in a human drama that was also a historical drama and a genuine wonder of filmmaking.
6. It avoids the pratfalls of easy melodrama by maintaining a psychological distance from its characters; there are never any obvious explanations for their choices or behaviors.
7. An all-encompassing, life-affirming cinematic experience that resembles no other.
8. Those who see it will, quite frankly, not believe their luck. It is that satisfying, that engrossing, that good.
9. Here's the way you want see the film -- the first two hours in your 20s, the middle two hours in your 40s, and the last two hours in your 60s.
10. When the movie concludes, you can talk about these characters as if you actually know them -- which won't be far from the truth.

Here is the consensus of critics:Earns its 6 hours running time by telling an engrossing story with compelling characters.

Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Make no mistake: It's Simmons' explosive, career-defining performance that really brings Whiplash to life.
2. Riveting
3. 'Whiplash' is electric from beginning to end, a musical story of obsession, frustration and outright cruelty built on two knockout performances.
4. Director Damien Chazelle, who based the story on his own experience as a student jazz drummer in the thrall of an Alpha task-master, has created a remarkably economical and claustrophobic piece of storytelling.
5. A simple plot synopsis might make Whiplash seem ordinary -- there's even a little romantic subplot -- but that sort of reductive reporting misses the point of this beautifully crafted, nuanced and wonderfully energetic film.
6. "Whiplash" Follows the Beat of its own Drum.
7. Writer-director Damien Chazelle has created a masterpiece, aided by superb acting by J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller.
8. This is about how we push ourselves, how others push us, and if any of that ends up mattering at all.
9. "Whiplash" will instill not just respect but awe. It also happens to feature a pair of performances that eclipse all else around them.
10. This is a student film in rampant overdrive and it will attract attention and offers. So I just hope Mr. Chazelle doesn't believe too much in his film's dumb message.

Here is the consensus of critics:Intense, inspiring, and well-acted, Whiplash is a brilliant sophomore effort from director Damien Chazelle and a riveting vehicle for stars J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller.

Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Blow Out is not known as one of Brian De Palma's horror movies, but of all his films, it's the one that feels most like a nightmare.
2. the filmmakers seem more concerned with their art or their in-jokes than with satisfying an audience
3. It's a great movie.
4. Original for sure story of Travolta's movie sound effects guy recording a real murder.
5. One of Travlota's best performances. "Great scream."
6. A movie which continues [De Palma] practice of making cross-references to other movies, other directors, and actual historical events, and which nevertheless is his best and most original work.
7. Where Antonioni's images made you think, De Palma's merely make you blink, and the baroque plot confuses as often as it frightens.
8. A well-crafted Hitchcockian-style thriller with De Palma again in top form. It's a mystery why this fizzled at the box office in the summer of 1981.
9. Of all De Palma's movies, Blow Out is the one I most like to see over and over.
10. Blow Out is the work of a high-spirited, irrepressible director who takes the effects movies can produce far more seriously than he takes the characters they seem to be about.

Here is the consensus of critics:
With a story inspired by Antonioni's Blow Up and a style informed by the high-gloss suspense of Hitchcock, DePalma's Blow Out is raw, politically informed, and littered with film references.