Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
As it comes together, the film becomes just as much a tribute to those massive Towers as it is to Petit.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Expect the worst from the first half- that's before Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) strings up a wire between the World Trade Center towers. But then, oh, baby, does this movie fly.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
These dizzying IMAX 3-D visuals truly are big-screen magic, taking us inside Petit's transcendent experience as he navigates his preternatural path, indulges his showman's flair, and - agh! - reclines to commune with the heavens.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
The Walk has been made with the same genial spirit a judge used when he sentenced Petit to perform a free show for children in Central Park for his crime. This is a love letter to lunacy that lets you feel what it's like to tread where only gods dare.

Name : Alex Pappademas / Alias : Grantland
For at least the duration of the 25-minute wire sequence, The Walk is a breathless, exhilarating moviegoing experience. It's just not much of a movie.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
The Walk serves its purpose by showing you something you've never seen before, from perspectives as impossible as the stunt itself. Zemeckis just chose for too long to luxuriate in the fantasy of it all, when the reality was more than enough.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Village Voice
The Walk, in its last half at least, is a dazzling piece of work, particularly in 3-D; even so, its most luminous effect is an actor.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
The film gets better as it goes, and the last half-hour (especially in 3-D on an Imax screen) is nearly everything it should be: scary, visually momentous, meticulously realized.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Zemeckis finally delivers the goods in abundance in the section that really counts: A vertigo-inducing digital re-creation of Petit's famous walk back and forth between the towers.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
It's when the walk portion of The Walk arrives that this unevenly scripted, fact-based thriller achieves its full potential.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
It may not get inside the head of its pole-balancing protagonist - it doesn't really even try - but Zemeckis' movie takes you skyward.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
I'd love to say that I was delighted by Robert Zemeckis' "The Walk" from start to finish. But I can't. Not that I was disappointed. Simply underwhelmed. It just didn't click for me.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
You can't help but hold your breath and clutch the armrests when Philippe steps out into the sky.

Name : Chris Vognar / Alias : Dallas Morning News
The line between gimmicky and magic can be mighty fine, but Robert Zemeckis masters it like a seasoned pro in The Walk.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Ultimately there's enough daredevil verve here to offset the pedestrian comedy undergirding it.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gordon-Levitt beguilingly captures Petit's irresistible charisma in a performance that completes his transition from indie-film favorite to big-budget star.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
For those who want to feel like they're 110 stories up and living in the clouds, Hollywood does its job conjuring movie magic with a breathtaking Walk to remember.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
The last 30 minutes or so are all about the walk. Dariusz Wolski's cinematography is beautiful. and Gordon-Levitt does some of his best acting when he's out on the wire and mostly silent, his face glowing from the sheer crazy joy he's feeling.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
Then we're finally aloft, with the man on his wire, and Mr. Zemeckis and his colleagues lift their groundbound production into the realm of high art.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
It's two-thirds of a great film but the slow start and unremarkable first hour hold it back. Still, for those who buy into the precept that "good things are worth waiting for," The Walk unquestionably delivers.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
I was simply exhausted by Zemeckis' oppressive insistence that I was being told a valuable, thrilling and humorous story, and was having a good time.

Name : Dan Callahan / Alias : TheWrap
"'The Walk' is that rare movie that might please practically everyone, from viewers just looking for a thrill to those who might enjoy a story that sounds like a tall tale but winds up being discreetly poignant."

Name : Kate Taylor / Alias : Globe and Mail
The film limps through its first two acts, putting in time until the big moment.

Name : Elaine Teng / Alias : The New Republic
Even in its greatest moment, The Walk breaks the spell with an unnecessary narration about how Petit felt in that moment, how the sky looked to him, how a bird came soaring towards his head.

Name : Jim Slotek / Alias : Toronto Sun
The Walk becomes a first-rate caper movie, with a thrilling finish that can't help but move you (if you haven't covered your eyes).

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : NPR
Zemeckis throws all of the emphasis on the walk itself, which minimizes the film's annoyances and justifies the groundwork necessary for the big payoff.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
This delivers some frighteningly vertiginous moments once Petit steps off the South Tower into empty space, and Zemeckis wisely milks the climactic wire walk, which lasted 45 minutes and drew a crowd of breathless onlookers below, for all it's worth.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
A filmmaker with a gift for overcoming the seemingly impossible puts audiences in the place of the man who walked between the Twin Towers in this gripping human-interest story.

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The film's payoff more than compensates for a lumbering setup, laden with cloying voiceover narration and strained whimsy.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Zemeckis . nearly sinks the film before redeeming it in spectacular fashion.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
After two hours of "The Walk," I felt as if I'd walked the wire myself.

Name : David Sims / Alias : The Atlantic
Zemeckis's failing is his inattention to every other detail, but The Walk undeniably exists for its climax: one stunt it does manage to pull off flawlessly.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Somehow The Walk succeeds in spite of its immoderation, especially when the stunt is at hand - in 3D IMAX, no less - which is so often the way of Zemeckis movies.

Name : Joe McGovern / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The occasional hokum cannot cloud the stunning, incandescent craftsmanship of the movie's third act.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
By some standards, this isn't much of a movie. But it is a hell of a monument.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
While it's clearly constructed with meticulous care, with the wire-walking scenes as breathtaking as CGI allows, it lacks a certain, well, je ne sais quoi.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
The walk itself is the film's central, and only, real achievement, but it's a doozy.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
"The Walk" satisfies as an absorbing yarn of authority-flouting adventure and as an example of stomach-flipping you-are-there-ness. The journey it offers viewers doesn't just span 140 feet, but also an ethereal, now-vanished, world.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A razzle-dazzle thriller with eye-popping visuals, white-knuckle tension and just the right note of melancholy.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : TIME Magazine
The Walk is a visionary high-wire act.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
It is, as it should be, a slight, mischievous, light-footed film, full of imagery.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
It would be swell if all of "The Walk" came together as beautifully as the computer effects do, but it would also be churlish not to appreciate what we do have.

Name : Stephen Holden / Alias : New York Times
"It's not what they show, it's what they don't show," the painter Robert Cenedella complains in "Art Bastard," Victor Kanefsky's robust, plain-talking documentary portrait of this lifelong rebel and art-world gadfly.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Tonally schizoid and rife with anachronisms (a David Bowie song on the sound track, out-of-era vernacular), Tarantino's Third Reich folly is utterly exasperating.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
Basterds is not great Tarantino but it's solidly good Tarantino, and that's sweet news for his fans.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
For all its visual bravura and occasional bursts of antic inspiration, it feels trivial, the work of a kid who can't stop grabbing his favorite shiny plaything.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
'Subtle' is not a word in Tarantino's lexicon. At the film's heart is a fatal attempt to conflate fact with fiction and a celebration of vengeance that's misplaced and embarrassing.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : Associated Press
If only Quentin Tarantino the director weren't so completely in love with Quentin Tarantino the writer, Inglourious Basterds might have been a great movie rather than just a good movie with moments of greatness.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
It's these fine sequences that can make you truly regret Tarantino's snarky, in-joke impulses, not to mention his arrogant - perhaps even dangerous - lack of concern with the story's moral dimensions.

Name : Scott Von Doviak / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
For anyone who has been hoping to see Tarantino back at the top of his game, the must-see movie of the summer has finally arrived.

Name : Tom Charity / Alias : CNN.com
Waltz will be unknown to most American audiences - he was certainly unknown to me - but he's nothing less than sensational as the silky, polyglot SS officer charged by the Fuhrer to root out the remaining Jews in France.

Name : Lisa Schwarzbaum / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Austrian actor Christoph Waltz 
 triumphs, heroically, over Tarantino's brash, cine-drunk tall tale.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
The outcome is gory and glorious.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Variety
By turns surprising, nutty, windy, audacious and a bit caught up in its own cleverness, the picture is a completely distinctive piece of American pop art with a strong Euro flavor that's new for the director.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Though "Art Bastard" is a zesty, engaging documentary about a veteran outsider, when it comes to his complexities, it's not terribly cohesive.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Art Bastard shines brightest not as a biographical portrait - an aim in which it succeeds only sporadically - but rather as a showcase for the highly imaginative and thoughtful works by the now 76-year-old, too-little-known painter.

Name : Tomris Laffly / Alias : Time Out
Breezy and vivid, Art Bastard ultimately delivers the person: criminally underrated yet still principled and generous.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
With its exploded notions of heroism, torture-rack dramatics and kamikaze gusto, it's a fiendishly entertaining flick.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a big, bold, audacious war movie that will annoy some, startle others and demonstrate once again that he's the real thing, a director of quixotic delights.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Quentin Tarantino's extremely witty revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds may be the most fun you'll have at the movies this summer.

Name : Keith Phipps / Alias : AV Club
There's a feast here, particularly in the amazing opening, an unexpected essay on King Kong, and performances by Pitt, Laurent, and Waltz. It's just been placed on a huge table with no consideration of whether it adds up to a meal.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
Cenedella is rough around the edges, yet he remains fascinating.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Inglorious Basterds is an entertainment but an uneasy one; it represents 153 minutes of bravura stalling, after which its creator loses interest and walks away.

Name : Tom Maurstad / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Scenes like the showdown in the tavern and the movie-premiere finale are as imaginative, energetic and, in their own weird, brutal way, beautiful as cinema gets.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : I.E. Weekly
Basterds isn't a deep film - honestly, what Tarantino flick is? - but it has moments as sharp as a bayonet and as perverse as war itself.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
World War II was more serious, complex and horrifying than all this comic embellishment, but if I sound critical, I apologize in advance. I had a helluva time watching Inglourious Basterds.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Inglourious Basterds is a social marker as startling as Easy Rider was in its day.

Name : Roger Moore / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
Inglourious is slow, dumb - and in a first for QT in his cinema savant career - incompetent.

Name : Laremy Legel / Alias : Film.com
Like a bat to the head, it's not too subtle, but you can't help but watch.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Tarantino crams enough movie-loving passion into the film to keep you not just entertained but occasionally riveted. Above all else, it's a really enjoyable ride.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Tarantino is the most fearlessly inventive filmmaker alive - but we knew that. And while Inglourious Basterds is never anything less than ridiculously entertaining, it's nothing Tarantino hasn't done before.

Name : Bob Mondello / Alias : NPR
'Art Bastard' is a film about a man who has tilted - and continues to tilt - at the art-world equivalent of Don Quixote's windmills.

Name : Rick Groen / Alias : Globe and Mail
War reduced to pop entertainment should at least be easy to swallow, but this stuff keeps getting stuck in our craw. The trash that Tarantino used to elevate he now imitates.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
Inglourious Basterds transcends the war genre to become its own kind of unique picture: A bloody blast of pure movie bliss.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
With Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has made his best movie since Pulp Fiction. He has also made what could arguably be considered the most audacious World War II movie of all-time.

Name : John Hartl / Alias : Seattle Times
Tarantino's wartime fantasies may leave history in the dust, but his movie is a surprisingly satisfying contribution to movies about the Holocaust.

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
When a man makes a movie this good, you can forgive him the occasional indulgence.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Salon.com
Quentin Tarantino seems to be hanging on to a lost world of moviemaking. He may be nuts. But he's a nut who cares.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Variety
The madly teeming pop-cartoon paintings of Robert Cenedella anchor a lively look at a self-styled superstar of outsider art.

Name : J. Hoberman / Alias : Village Voice
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment - rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The movie is an ungainly pastiche, yet on some wacked-out Jungian level it's all of a piece.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
I'm tempted to say Tarantino has done it again, but I doubt anyone has ever done anything like his dazzlingly original World War II movie, Inglourious Basterds.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Will Basterds polarize audiences? That's a given. But for anyone professing true movie love, there's no resisting it.

Name : Sheila O'Malley / Alias : RogerEbert.com
Engaging and thought-provoking .

Name : Jonathan F. Richards / Alias : Film.com
Its biggest flaw, though, for those who care about such things, may be its moral attitude. That might seem a stodgy thing to bring up in the context of a Quentin Tarantino movie, but it takes such center stage that it needs to be examined.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
These Basterds blend into a much richer story, a hugely entertaining one with stars you don't immediately see shining.

Name : Ben Mankiewicz / Alias : At the Movies
This is a seriously provocative film.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
Landa is such a wily and despicable concoction that, in movie terms, he's almost impossible not to like. And therein lies part of my problem with this movie.

Name : Joanne Kaufman / Alias : Wall Street Journal
All the trademark Tarantino flourishes are here - the joyous splaying of gore; the self-referential dialogue; the artful artificiality and the juxtaposition of humor and violence - but they don't add up to much.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
The secret sauce of this delicious romp is the joy of hanging out with a delightfully unruly rebel with a paintbrush.

Name : Eric Kohn / Alias : indieWIRE
Despite the injection of content from a variety of directions, Basterds lacks the crackly excitement of Tarantino's other efforts, mainly because he can't seem to tie the whole package together.

Name : Scott Marks / Alias : San Diego Reader
You may not recognize the name going in, but after spending 82 minutes watching director Victor Kanefsky cast a heartfelt lens in Cenedella's direction, you'll never forget him.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Richard Roeper.com
One of the best performances of the decade in one of the most entertaining movies of the year.

Name : Ben Lyons / Alias : At the Movies
Superbly acted and well constructed, each scene is paced to a chaotic climatic frenzy.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
Simply another testament to his movie love. The problem is that by making the star attraction of his latest film a most delightful Nazi, one whose smooth talk is as lovingly presented as his murderous violence, Mr. Tarantino has polluted that love.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
The picture contains all the things his fans like about Tarantino - the wit, the audacity, the sudden violence - but this movie's emotional core and bigness of spirit are new.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Cenedella may never become a household name, but "Art Bastard" argues persuasively that fame is overrated.

Name : Christopher Orr / Alias : The New Republic
The true moral universe in which the film unfolds is that of the spaghetti westerns.: a world in which the strong are above the law and the way to tell the good guys from the bad guys is not by their acts but by the kind of hats they wear.

Name : Richard Corliss / Alias : TIME Magazine
Many Tarantino movies are female revenge fantasies, in which strong women plot the deaths of men who wronged them. In Shosanna and Bridget, the writer-director has fashioned two of his steeliest, most principled femmes fatales.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
I don't know if I've ever seen a revenge fantasy so willfully messed up, sometimes offensively so, that still manages to be worthwhile for whole sections of its 2 1/2 hours. The opening is as good a sequence as Tarantino has ever created.

Name : David Denby / Alias : New Yorker
Inglourious Basterds is not boring, but it's ridiculous and appallingly insensitive-a Louisville Slugger applied to the head of anyone who has ever taken the Nazis, the war, or the Resistance seriously.

Name : Nick Schager / Alias : Village Voice
Manages to be as cursory as it is intimate, skimming over so much of Cenedella's life and career that it imparts only a hazy impression of who he is and what he believes.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Clocking in at 2 hours and 32 minutes, it is unforgivably leisurely, almost glacial, a film that loses its way in the thickets of alternative history and manages to be violent without the start-to-finish energy that violence on screen usually guarantees.

Name : Dana Stevens / Alias : Slate
Tarantino's signature nastiness and his juvenile delight in shocking the audience undercut the movie's larger purpose.