Critic consensus:When not overusing sight gags, slapstick, and Richard Pryor, Superman III resorts to plot points rehashed from the previous Superman flicks.

Numbered reviews:1. Now retooling the Superman series into middleweight comedy, the script feels written for no one above the age of twelve. As a production it looks cheaply made and thrown together. Worse, this is a mean-spirited piece of work.
2. Enjoyable, nevertheless.
3. Putting its emphasis on broad comedy at the expense of ingenious plotting and technical wizardry, it has virtually none of the mythic or cosmic sensibility that marked its predecessors.
4. Outdated superhero movie may interest older kids.
5. A noticeable drop in quality from the first two, but it's still decent enough that you don't have to be embarrassed for liking it. That comes soon enough...
6. Superman is thrown in to the mix somewhere. But he's merely an after thought, and a supporting player in his own film.
7. Reeve continues his traditions of graceful flying moves, confident carriage, and twinkly warmth. Sadly, none of it is enough to save Superman III from being at home only in a junkyard.
8. 'Superman contra os avanзos da tecnologia'. Uma idйia cuja estupidez sу й superada por sua pйssima execuзгo.
9. Apparently, Richard Lester's intent was to turn Superman into a joke. A really bad joke.
10. Richard Lester's direction injects nothing new into the material, giving the feeling that he views the whole thing as an exercise in comedy set pieces.


Critic consensus:Overlong and overly burdened with war movie clichés, Battle: Los Angeles will entertain only the most ardent action junkies.

Numbered reviews:1. It's a simplistic movie, but there's something appealing about its simplicity.
2. Battle: Los Angeles is like watching someone else play Call of Duty so you're not very engaged in the action because you're not the one controlling it..."
3. Recently, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking suggested that if alien life exists, we shouldn't be in a rush to make first contact. Consider Battle: Los Angeles Hawking's cinematic "I told ya so."
4. Neither as serious as Black Hawk Down nor as lightheartedly fun as Independence Day.
5. Eat some leatherneck lead, E.T. -- and semper fi, space scum!
6. Terminally stupid.
7. Jonathan Liebesman's "Battle: Los Angeles" is one of those rare films that fails on just about every level a film can fail on.
8. Just the worst, most cliché-ridden bunch of faceless cannon fodder you've ever had the misfortune to watch die.
9. It's not new, it's not novel and it's not art. But as a popcorn movie a couple of months out of summer season, it'll have to do.
10. Battle: Los Angeles misses every mark it aims for. Aside from the well done special effects nothing in this movie is worth recommending.


Critic consensus:Dave Chappelle's Block Party is a raucous return to the spotlight for the comic. Buoyed by Chappelle's witty, infectious humor and outstanding performances from some of the more socially conscious artists in hip-hop like Mos Def, Kayne West, the Roots, and (will wonders never cease?) the reunited Fugees, this documentary/concert film is a joyous experience. With an appealing mix like that, who doesn't want to attend this Party?

Numbered reviews:
1. Block Party makes for a transcendent experience.
2. The music is angry and the jokes are raw but, ultimately, Block Party conveys a positive message to audiences. Instead of competition, we see collaboration between the artists and unity in the diverse crowd.
3. Strictly for fans of the musical acts and those who think everything Chappelle does is genius.
4. There's an intimate, just-throwing-a-party feel to the whole bash, thanks to Chappelle's pretension-puncturing humor and the sense that, whatever their issues or accomplishments, the artists are there mainly to share some love with their fans.
5. Those who denounce rap as nothing but profanity-laden chants about living like a pimp and treating women like garbage will be surprised by the strong political messages that pepper the concert.
6. [Chappelle is] a uniter, not a divider.
7. Chappelle's talent and the characters in the movie give it a universal appeal, even to those unfamiliar with hip-hop.
8. It's intermittently funny, but it peaks too soon and runs far too long. And for all its length, Block Party doesn't tell us much about Chappelle that we haven't seen before.
9. By cutting away from the music just as things start cooking, what could have been a great rockumentary becomes too much of a Chappelle celebration.
10. Two years after going AWOL from his hit Comedy Central show, Dave Chappelle makes a tentative foray back into the limelight with a good old-fashioned concert film that, surprisingly, features very little of Chappelle himself.