1. For a picture big on in-camera special effects, few of the explosions and set pieces can eclipse the parade of cracking performances.
2. It's an opulent odyssey that balances romance, comedy and thrills in one glittering and constantly surprising package.
3. The king is completely out-of-control, and so was Gilliam in making this film. Neither has much of a sense of proportion, but both are hard to ignore.
4. The carnivalesque chaos is anchored in stage actor John Neville's charismatic lead turn.
5. Its intellectual intent and the physical production seem disconnected, leaving a film that bedazzles the eye even as it bedevils the mind.
6. Superbly photographed and marvelously lighted, this remarkable set piece of art direction and stunning decor cures many of its own ills, including a screenplay that meanders grandly.
7. The sheer volume and invention of Gilliam's visual largess sets him apart, and his wit operates for the most part at a dangerously sophisticated level.
8. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a fairy tale of large heart and limitless vision. Like its maker, it staunchly defies the exigencies of reason to pursue a bigger vision of imagination.
9. A lavish fairy tale for bright children of all ages.
10. One of the most voluptuously beautiful films ever imagined, Munchausen naturally assumes that surrealism is preferable, that through make-believe we find the way to true beliefs.
Consensus: Bursting with Terry Gilliam's typically imaginative flourishes, this story of a possibly deranged Baron recounting his storied life is a flamboyant and witty visual treat.
Q: 1. This bone-weary material would barely make for a passable episode of Diagnosis: Murder.
2. Implausible and contrived...it's "The Fugitive," complete with Tommy Lee Jones in essentially the same role.
3. Too much of Double Jeopardy is illogical.
4. Too bad you can't shoot the screenwriters.
5. The way the screenwriters treat the law is in many ways similar to way they treat intelligence of the viewers.
6. Double Jeoprady has all the legal savvy of the O.J. Simpson jury.
7. The script, not rooted in logic, leaves certain plot elements unexplained. And when the ending arrives, it's no surprise.
8. This film takes a potentially interesting premise and makes some mistakes that result in a faulty final product.
9. Unremarkable.
10. Jeopardy has elements of an enjoyable film, and the various plot twists start out promising, but director Bruce Beresford never quite follows through, and is unable to effectively control the movie's pace and tone.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: A talented cast fails to save this unremarkable thriller.
1. Cornish's film stands on its own and also fits comfortably into a proud cinematic tradition; it owes nothing to any antecedent, and yet feels like the latest in a lineage of crowd-pleasers.
2. A fresh and funny twist on the alien-invasion epic.
3. Attack the Block strains somewhat to deliver a climactic moral, but the way it slyly shifts our sympathies to Moses and his crew (at the expense of another species, granted) without overplaying their deprivation puts more serious-minded indies to shame.
4. Evokes far more childlike Spielbergian wonder than this summer's similar Super 8.
5. An elegant, deliciously wrinkly action film loaded with humor, racial tension and gloopy violence.
6. A low-budget adventure with propulsive energy and plenty of laughs.
7. There could be a few more scares and laughs, but it's a blast to be drawn into this urban ecosystem that is, to us Yanks, itself a bit alien.
8. It enhances a sense of the world rather than peddling distraction from it.
9. An entertaining thriller in the tradition of 1970s B-action films, with an unknown cast, energetic special effects and great energy.
10. Snappy and confident, funny and exciting - an alien space-horror comedy that will engage even those who think they're beyond this sort of thing.
Consensus: Effortlessly mixing scares, laughs, and social commentary, Attack the Block is a thrilling, brisky-paced sci-fi yarn with a distinctly British flavor.
Q: 1. A riveting reconstruction of the struggle for independence in mid-50s Algiers, its pseudo-documentary style still feels as headline-fresh as its content.
2. Gillo Pontecorvo's epic of revolutionary fervour has dimmed not an iota since it was first released in 1966.
3. Forty years on, the film's lost not a fraction of its power.
4. Faux-documentary masterpiece
5. Whatever they made of The Battle of Algiers at the Pentagon, this is a must-see for everyone else now.
6. Brilliantly directed set-pieces and remarkable thronging crowd scenes make the film a masterpiece; the ominous familiarity of its subject makes it a must-see.
7. The most important piece of political filmmaking since Battleship Potemkin.
8. The inspiration and blueprint for docudrama and ideological cinema worldwide.
9. what really resonates on watching Algiers is its message about the widespread loss of civilian life and the staggering destruction to civic infrastructure as the heaviest costs of war
10. Superb and unrivalled.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?

A: Consensus: A powerful, documentary-like examination of the response to an occupying force, The Battle of Algiers hasn't aged a bit since its release in 1966.
1. Even as the film's most stereotypical figure, stand-up comic Katt Williams manages to be the only consistently funny character in this uninspired inspirational comedy.
2. It tries far too hard and achieves far too little. The laughs it causes are guilty ones, but not that guilty, because there aren't that many.
3. Though Ice Cube and Morgan should make an ideal team, neither seems particularly comfortable grappling with Talbert's amateurish script.
4. The film, written and directed by urban theater circuit playwright David E. Talbert, is far from polished, but it has a rambunctious energy that's hard to resist.
5. If there's a God, First Sunday will be the last of its kind for Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan, who deserve better than this wannabe screwball comedy about small-time crooks knocking over a church.
6. Your enjoyment of this movie may depend on the Tracy Morgan factor. Rarely has there been a comic who can switch from funny to unbearably grating with such speed.
7. If Tyler Perry ever wanted to turn Dog Day Afternoon into a treacly after-school special, it would probably end up looking a lot like this.
8. Writer-director David E. Talbert has a fine cast...but he lets them down with a wretched, amateurish script...
9. Talbert's unable to pin down exactly what kind of movie he wants to make, a slapstick sermon or an urban tragicomedy?
10. Ice Cube is now Public Enemy Number Fun, although First Sunday is only fun if you're in dire need of a modernist urban take on the strain of comedy Abbott and Costello used to practice, which, let's be honest, wasn't that funny to begin with.

Consensus: First Sunday may have its heart in the right place, but its funny bone is dislocated.