1. Well, it's about this shark...
2. Nowadays, it doesn't really scare me anymore, but I love watching it for the way it moves.
3. The first calculated summertime blockbuster...A whale of big-budget Hollywood entertainment.
4. The fast-moving 124-minute film engenders enormous suspense as the shark attacks a succession of people.
5. It's no wonder a generation of holidaymakers still thinks twice before stepping into the water.
6. Like all the best suspense films, "Jaws" manages to somehow remain amazingly tense, even if you've seen the film before. No wonder so many moviegoers went back for repeat viewings.
7. Steven Spielberg's mechanical thriller is guaranteed to make you scream on schedule.
8. Achieves a number of cheap thrills at the expense of the mechanical shark.
9. Along with being a terrific character-driven (not plot) thriller, Jaws should be viewed against the broader context of 1975 as part of a cycle of paranoia films, reflecting the Vietnam War, Watergate scandal, anti-authoritarianism, and political apathy
10. A true film of the 70s, all its characters have feet of clay… Yet Jaws boldly puts [them] to a test as dire as any faced by the granite-jawed supermen of earlier decades.
Compelling, well-crafted storytelling and a judicious sense of terror ensure Steven Spielberg's Jaws has remained a benchmark in the art of delivering modern blockbuster thrills.

1. A stirring love story that dabbles uncomfortably close to hate.
2. Doesn't even measure up to an episode of your typical, cowboy TV show from the Fifties like Roy Rogers or The Lone Ranger. Get my drift, Kimosabe?
3. September Dawn has the ham-fisted lyricism of political ads and pharmaceutical commercials.
4. Less verifiable than implied, 'September Dawn' nevertheless does raise relevant questions of intolerance, fanaticism and individual responsibility.
5. Even if one gets past the movie's controversial depictions, there is the matter of its second-rate, made-for-television fare -- the poor battle choreography, the wooden editing and the cheesy writing.
6. When watching the screen depiction of a historic event in which 120 people were murdered, giggling is not the appropriate response.
7. Bombastic, slow-drying dramatization with lead-weight dialogue and a turgid romantic subplot.
8. It has the chilling certitude of the self-righteous.
9. The jarring MTV-style filmmaking is so distracting and the 'messaging' so unsubtle that after two long hours you find yourself leaving the theater with a massive headache, wondering when you started to hate Mormons.
10. Earnest but misguided attempt to generate political allegory from the horrific Mountain Meadows Massacre of 9/11/1857 would have benefited from a more straightforward retelling.
With its jarring editing, dull love story, and silly dialogue, September Dawn turns a horrific historical event into a banal movie.

1. Watching Gilderoy behind the soundboard is like watching a maestro with his baton.
2. This is the proverbial curate's egg of a film: good in parts.
3. Mesmerizing, but the images stand alone and incomplete.
4. The second feature from Katalin Varga director Peter Strickland is an idiosyncratic, impeccably crafted mindbender that shifts between the beguiling and the bemusing.
5. Berberian Sound Studio may scan as a psychological thriller, but it's really a lavish gift to film geeks in a lovely matryoshka box.
6. The creepiness builds with symphonic precision until reality truly is indistinguishable from fantasy.
7. The first two acts are funny and fun in their moody evocation of both the period and the genre, but right around when Gilderoy starts to lose his mind, Berberian begins to lose its way.
8. Fantastic in the technical aspects of cinematography and especially sound-mixing. Toby Jones is as reliable as he always is and the movie never really bores you.
9. On the surface an amusing black comedy that parodies the horror movie's continual status as the cultural black sheep of the cinematic landscape, but it's most prominently concerned with painting a sonic portrait of alienation.
10. Terror of sorts takes place inside a studio creating a schlock horror movie in a film that shows technical expertise with only a moderately involving narrative.
Its reach may exceed its grasp, but with Berberian Sound Studio, director Peter Strickland assembles a suitably twisted, creepy tribute to the Italian Giallo horror movies of the '70s that benefits from a strong central performance by Toby Jones.

1. Although it's a little like having sex without getting to the climax (kinda nice, but ultimately unsatisfying), it's still makes you feel pretty darn good while it lasts.
2. About the pleasures and dangers of human connection, and yet the movie itself barely musters the energy to connect.
3. It's disappointing that Laconte never properly addresses the intriguing sexual undertones (like voyeurism, exhibitionism and sexual obsession) he uses to darken the film's palette.
4. A surprisingly upbeat, if distinctly off-beat romance
5. It's a movie by people who know there are few things more thrilling, or that seem more perilous, than meeting the romantic 'other' and having those first, careful conversations.
6. It is without doubt the ideal film for sophisticated audiences who desperately need cinematic relief from graphic sex scenes, car chases and carefully choreographed explosions.
7. This is the kind of sophisticated and pleasurable movie you dream of seeing from France.
8. Leconte has made a film every bit as elegant, tactful and carefully composed as William himself.
9. A stylish love story, and a sophisticated entertainment.
10. Leconte emerges once again as both a magical spell-weaver and an acute observer of human nature.

Intimate Strangers is Hitchcockian noir with a Gallic twist: Rather than simply imitating the genre's form, director/screenwriter Patrice Leconte delves into the underlying psychological drama.