Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
A classic example of a documentary that discovers its subject in the process of its making.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
If John Steinbeck were writing in the second decade of the 21st century, "The Overnighters" is precisely the story he'd want to tell.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
[A] tough-minded, admirably unresolved film .

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The movie might seem like just another liberal do-gooder profile, yet a shocker ending throws new and disturbing light on the situation, amplifying the Christian themes at the heart of the story.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
"The Overnighters" is commendable for many reasons, not the least of which is the way it allows complex issues to remain complex. There is a clear conflict between the pastor and the town, but there's no good vs. evil.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
Through patience, skill, discretion, and trust, Jesse Moss has taken a seemingly small town story and turned it into both a microcosm of today's most urgent issues and a portrait of a single suffering soul.

Name : Lisa Kennedy / Alias : Denver Post
Moss uses images of drill towers or blistering flame as visual metaphors for other things transpiring on screen: the fracturing of a family, the heated fury that comes with a sense of betrayal.

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A scenario with present-day echoes of "The Grapes of Wrath" yields perceptive insights into the way we view outsiders.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
The film features stunning third-act revelations that compel viewers to rethink its characters' actions and motivations.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
Composed of multiple layers - more than one of which might bring tears to your eyes - this shape-shifting documentary begins as one thing and ends as quite another.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
A sobering must-see, The Overnighters speaks to the eternal dilemma of doing the right thing in a community beset by suspicion and fear.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
So much of "The Overnighters" tells all sorts of truths, and Moss earned the trust of his subjects, whatever they might think of the result.

Name : Trevor Johnston / Alias : Time Out
An urgent portrait of compassion under fire.

Name : David Lewis / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Moss was basically a one-man production crew, which explains how he was able to film such intimate, painful conversations. His work is haunting - one of the best documentaries of the year.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Moss uncovers something greater than a vision of a divided community; he's made a drama as prickly and surprising as any fictional character study.

Name : Leah Greenblatt / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Filmmaker Jesse Moss frames his shots beautifully; the landscapes look like Andrew Wyeth paintings.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
It develops into a study of obsession, hypocrisy, righteousness and self-doubt, questioning motive and then gob-smacking the audience with the wholly unexpected.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
The Overnighters sounds like the sort of dry news blurb you'd skim over in the Sunday paper, but it unfolds into an epic tragedy.

Name : Sheri Linden / Alias : Los Angeles Times
It's the rare documentary in which truly unpredictable events unfold and no assumption is safe.

Name : Andy Webster / Alias : New York Times
A smorgasbord of empty calories, the Vin Diesel vehicle "The Last Witch Hunter," for all its overstuffed visuals, leaves you hungry. But not for more.

Name : Alex Pappademas / Alias : Grantland
A feature film that feels like a longish TV pilot.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Unfortunately, a film needs more than Diesel's Stallone-ish appeal to succeed and that's where The Last Witch Hunter is found lacking.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
Even with Diesel's oblivious self-miscasting - he's a producer on the film - "Witch Hunter" feels like genre material that might have found a way to work.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
"The Last Witch Hunter" aims for pulpy, comic-book fun, but it's never as fleet, funny, or detailed as it needs to be. If you're looking for something above middling in terms of plot, characters, [or] world-building, you'll need to seek it elsewhere.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
One of those artlessly restless, exposition-dialogue fantasy-action slogs .

Name : Stephen Dalton / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Fast and furious on the surface, shallow and conventional beneath, Diesel's bid to carve himself another billion-dollar franchise is off to a good start with this mainstream crowd-pleaser.

Name : Kyle Anderson / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The only thing The Last Witch Hunter will successfully eradicate is insomnia.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
The Last Witch Hunter ends up crumbling into another generic showdown of murky fantasy effects and snatched artifacts, with a final shot that is literally framed around a door to possible sequels.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
The movie left me amazed - amazed that Nicolas Cage wasn't in it.

Name : Walter V. Addiego / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
You . have to swallow a by-the-numbers plot buried under an avalanche of fast-and-furious but underwhelming CGI effects.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Vin Diesel may not run smoothly, but he runs with purpose and conviction, and any line of dialogue processed through him comes out sounding like he believes it, even the sentimental ones.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
It is not even bad enough to be good camp comedy.

Name : Manori Ravindran / Alias : Globe and Mail
Seemingly at every juncture, the finality so necessary to up the stakes of this story is quickly snatched away in order to tease a sequel or two, leaving you wondering what the point of this supernatural exercise was in the first place.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Too drab to succeed even as defiantly unvirtuous trash . stifles Diesel's rough-hewn charisma via a sludgy, impermeable oil spill of CGI effects - in the service of largely unspectacular hocus pocus.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
The dependable Diesel and a fine cast keep this hokey action flick mostly entertaining.

Name : Andrew Lapin / Alias : NPR
Some action heroes take themselves too seriously, or think they're making popcorn fun when they're really filleting us with endless rounds of ammunition. Not Diesel .

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
The screenplay by a trio of writers is muddled and goofy and riddled with cliches.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
The special effects are pretty neat, and the filmmakers utilize them smartly, delivering imaginative set pieces that are more visually compelling than the usual series of digital explosions.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
It's the kind of roller-coaster Hollywood churns out seemingly in its sleep, oversaturated with effects shots and plot implausibilities. Ten minutes after you've seen it, you'll have forgotten all about it.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Watching The Last Witch Hunter is like sitting by while someone else plays a game whose coolness eludes us.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
What an ugly, idiotic mess this is.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
The special-effects-laden fight scenes are ho-hum, incoherent and badly lit. It's often hard to tell what some warlock or scorpion-like beast is doing and to whom.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The Last Witch Hunter is so drenched in CGI effects, it looks as if it's been dunked in a vat of lacquer.