Invictus (Warner Bros.)

Daily Variety (Todd McCarthy): “Clint Eastwood’s film has a predictable trajectory, but every scene brims with surprising details that accumulate into a rich fabric of history, cultural impressions and emotion.”

Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt): “A temperate, evenhanded perhaps overly timid film about an intemperate time in South Africa.”

The Lovely Bones (Paramount)

Daily Variety (Todd McCarthy): “But Jackson undermines solid work from a good cast with show-offy celestial evocations that severely disrupt the emotional connections with the characters.”

Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt): “Peter Jackson transforms Alice Sebold’s startling, unique novel about the aftermath of a terrible murder into a story more focused on crime and punishment.”

A Single Man (Weinstein)

Daily Variety (Leslie Felperin): “An impressive helming debut for fashion designer Tom Ford, who co-wrote the script with David Scearce, pic freely adapts Christopher Isherwood’s seminal novel set in Los Angeles, circa 1962, in which a college prof (Colin Firth), grieving for his dead lover, contemplates death.”

Hollywood Reporter (Deborah Young): “Sensitive and stylish, Tom Ford appeals beyond gay audiences.”