Critic consensus:It may not quite scale Aardman's customary delirious heights, but The Pirates! still represents some of the smartest, most skillfully animated fare that modern cinema has to offer.

Numbered reviews:1. Purists can rest easy. This marriage doesn't scupper Aardman's classic clay-based animated heritage and the script is still filled with the kind of dry laughs only the Brits can conjure up, with many of the jokes of the visual variety.
2. Swashbuckling, family-friendly frolic on the high seas, subtly referencing evolutionary science with an insidious spoonful-of-sugar.
3. Offers fewer innuendos about 'sparkling booty' than might be found in an American animated effort or a Kim Kardashian mall appearance. [Still], my timbers remain unshivered.
4. Aardman's first stop-motion feature in 3D doesn't overdo the now-ubiquitous special effects, but the added dimension refreshes the studio's signature chases without dampening its endearing drollery.
5. It starts out as a fairly easy spoof of the pirate-movie tropes resurrected by Depp and Disney but quickly finds humor in Victorian science, awards shows, Jane Austen and Elephant Man cameos while mostly avoiding the easy pop-culture gag.
6. A curiosity cabinet of visual pleasures but so breezy and lightly funny that you may not realize at first how good it is. (You're too busy grinning.)
7. The result is indeed a rollicking good time, even if Aardman's ambitions don't quite dazzle as usual.
8. It's smart, funny, and, most importantly, entertaining for multiple generations.
9. It doesn't look expensive; nor does it look cheap. It just looks the way Aardman films should, which is glorious.
10. Another Aardman triumph.


Critic consensus:The movie that catapulted Ang Lee into the ranks of upper echelon Hollywood filmmakers, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon features a deft mix of amazing martial arts battles, beautiful scenery, and tasteful drama.

Numbered reviews:1. Within five minutes of the opening you'll wonder when was the last time you felt so alive, so excited in a cinema.
2. It's FANTASTIC!
3. The smartest and smartest-looking action movie of the year.
4. It's abundantly clear that Lee, in conjunction with fight choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping (famed for The Matrix), has brought to these standard tropes his own elevating, near-feline sensibilities.
5. It's a feeling akin to seeing Peter Pan fly for the first time or watching the first light-saber duel in Star Wars.
6. Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon mixes In the Mood for Love's unobtainable romance with Dancer in the Dark's selfless-to-the-end philosophy.
7. ...my expectations were high, and I wasn't disappointed.
8. Lo and behold. An action movie that isn't about 'seize the day' or 'follow your heart' opportunism.
9. You've never seen a martial arts film like this one.
10. A haunting, tragic fairy tale for the ages.


Critic consensus:It has perhaps aged poorly, but this languidly paced WWII romance remains an iconic, well-acted film, featuring particularly strong performances from Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift.

Numbered reviews:
1. A lavish, star-studded spectacle, much bowdlerized but redeemed by a slew of fine performances.
2. As far as I can tell, every dumb guy in this movie has only himself to blame for all the stupid things that happen to him.
3. [A] true classic.
4. A formidable actor's showcase.
5. Out of From Here to Eternity, a novel whose anger and compassion stirred a postwar reading public as few such works have, Columbia and a company of sensitive hands have forged a film almost as towering and persuasive as its source.
6. Contemporary audiences may not see why, even in its toned-down simplification of the novel, From Here to Eternity was the most daring movie of 1953, but it remains an acting bonanza.
7. Nothing's as romantic and steamy as the secret liaison ending up with the waves crashing on the half-naked bodies of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr.
8. Romantic masterpiece is old Hollywood at it's best.
9. One of the best of all time.
10. There's some very good acting from a great cast but the drama is very over the top.