Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
It can't seem to make up its mind about whether it wants to frighten us or make us laugh. It does a little bit of both, to be sure, but not nearly enough of either to make much of a lasting impression.

Name : Nigel Floyd / Alias : Time Out
Given that the cast improvised all the scenes live on set, the dialogue has a surprising ring of truth, and is shot through with an unexpected, often unsettling, humour.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
They spend a great deal of time roaring, bleating, squealing and snorting at a very high volume, which is, after a point, too much of a muchness.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
It's so steeped in troll and paranoia lore, it risks boring you with the details at times. But it also makes you more inclined to believe it, and the frights are real enough.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A monster movie with a love for mountainous, tree-lined Scandinavian scenery and an even greater love for setting memorably ugly, hulking and destructive mythological creatures against it.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
This is what happens when the Norwegians try to make their own "Blair Witch Project": We get three-headed trolls that hate Vitamin D and references to "Deliverance."

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
An enjoyably off-kilter hybrid of The Blair Witch Project and Where the Wild Things Are.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Once again, material for a great short film has been expanded to feature length at its peril and ours. Still, this is clever stuff and surprisingly engrossing on its own terms.

Name : Eric Kohn / Alias : indieWIRE
Yes, Troll Hunter is derivative, but Ovredal seamlessly assembles his reference points with a steady ability to do them proud.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Enormously entertaining chiller.

Name : Nick Pinkerton / Alias : Village Voice
As de-mythologizings go, Trollhunter has neither the wit, nor art, nor social insight to honor the legacy of George A. Romero's Martin.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
With impressive technical credits, stunning fjord and forest locations and a winking ownership of its own absurdity, "Trollhunter" manages to be at once spooky, satirical and endearing.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Those fog-draped fjords provide a distractingly pretty backdrop to this tale of mysterious, massive creatures who roam the forest by night, searching for Christians on whom to munch.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
Like the folks who dreamed up lycanthropy, the Trollhunter writers either have an abundance of imagination or they've been smoking a controlled substance.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Andre Ovredal's enjoyably goofy scare-pic purports to offer real footage of real horror - in this case, a variety of forest and mountain trolls.

Name : Michael Wilmington / Alias : Chicago Reader
The film is shot with handheld cameras in the standard mockumentary style, but the content is often hilarious, especially when the trolls show up.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Trollhunter" has a lot of down time as the crew treks to the fjords, but it's also got dryly subversive humor and, eventually, some impressive special effects.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
A drily comic blend of irresistible ingredients that gets better as it goes along.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : NPR
Genially simpleminded and more sweet than scary, Trollhunter never settles on a tone. Fairytale fantasy, supernatural comedy, serious horror? All are sampled, to the detriment of the whole.

Name : Peter Hartlaub / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Successful on multiple levels, with a brisk pace, excellent location work and a strong lead performance by Norwegian comedian Otto Jespersen.

Name : Noel Murray / Alias : AV Club
Here's what's not so good in Troll Hunter: the actual troll hunting.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
The film takes off into a witty realm of nonplussed responses and folklore made roaringly real.

Name : V.A. Musetto / Alias : New York Post
You'll want to catch this clever movie before Hollywood ruins everything with a dumb remake.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
As the stoic titular slayer, Otto Jespersen is the one actor who holds you.

Name : Mike Hale / Alias : New York Times
One of the many pleasures of the Norwegian director Andre Ovredal's clever and engaging mock documentary "Trollhunter" is the way it plays with the idea of the supernatural rule book.

Name : Ben Kenigsberg / Alias : Time Out
Much has been made of the absence of Bond's signature quips, but there's something else that's absent: interest.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : Salon.com
Quantum of Solace is best when director Marc Forster allows his star the latitude to explore emotions that, until Craig stepped into the shoes of the character, we didn't know Bond had.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
It's ironic: After all these years of surviving everything that has been thrown at him, James Bond is finally being undone by his own team.

Name : Richard Corliss / Alias : TIME Magazine
Director Marc Forster turns out to be a natural as the helmer of a high-energy, high-gloss action film.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
Quantum of Solace prompts the question: Is revenge the only possible motive for large-scale movie heroism these days?

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Quantum - the 22d 'official' Bond picture, 24th including the rogue Bonds - is never less than engaging.

Name : Keith Phipps / Alias : AV Club
Quantum is content merely to be the second episode in what's shaping up to be a viable series, good enough but disappointing for those expecting greatness.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
[A] reasonably clever genre entry .

Name : Noah Berlatsky / Alias : Chicago Reader
A few years back, the easy sexism and narcissism of the James Bond series looked dated to the point of obsolescence, but Quantum of Solace proves that a revenge motive is just what's needed to rejuvenate all the Bond cliches.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
The Quantum of Solace filmmakers have produced a super-serious, often visually incoherent travelogue of revenge and trumped-up angst.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
Quantum of Solace never really engages you in the mechanical but transporting way the best Bond movies do.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
If the staging were as witty as the plotting, Quantum of Solace might have been a corker like Casino Royale.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
Frankly, Quantum of Solace is just one exasperated dressing down away from being Lethal Weapon 9.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
In the end it's all too fast and too furious - and far too obsessed with exercising its license to thrill.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
There isn't much plot between the action set pieces, and precious little character development beyond Craig's and Dench's continuing evolution.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
Quantum of Solace is a model of mediocrity, even though Daniel Craig gives his all to a production that doesn't deserve him.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
I repeat: James Bond is not an action hero! Leave the action to your Jason Bournes. This is a swampy old world. The deeper we sink in, the more we need James Bond to stand above it.

Name : Tom Maurstad / Alias : Dallas Morning News
The problems can be traced to a screenplay that is stuffed with internecine plot points and shades-of-gray complexities, but little else: no character-sharpening details and none of the wit and charm that buoyed Casino Royale.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
The result isn't bland, but it's not exactly Bond either.

Name : Lisa Schwarzbaum / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
I mean it as a cockeyed compliment to the reborn Bond franchise, then, when I say that Quantum of Solace is an unnecessarily cramped arena for such an interesting cat.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
This is the least satisfying production since The Living Daylights.

Name : Amy Biancolli / Alias : Houston Chronicle
If you held up your thumb over Daniel Craig's face and took in the mayhem around him, you'd think you were watching The Bourne Simulation rather than the 22nd (and shortest-ever) ode to Ian Fleming's suave government killer.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
All dressed up with no particular place to go, this 22nd Bond film tries hard but ends up an underachiever.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Not every director is well-suited to Bondland. "There's something horribly efficient about you," Kurylenko says to Craig at one point. The same goes for the film.

Name : Ben Mankiewicz / Alias : At the Movies
Mark Forester did a great job.

Name : Wally Hammond / Alias : Time Out
A slightly disappointing, furiously-paced, hi-tech, slash-and-burn sequel to the more leisurely, luxurious first 'reboot', 'Casino Royale'.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Enjoy Quantum of Solace for what it is: a high-octane, winning installment of the Bond series that hits the ground running and never lets up.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
Quantum of Solace is too savage for family entertainment, but, as a study in headlong desperation, it's easier to believe in than many more ponderous films.

Name : Bernard Besserglik / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The chemistry [Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell] achieve is a powerful argument for giving Solace its chance on the multiplex circuit.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : Associated Press
Despite his innate intensity, Craig seems a bit. bored, maybe? Underutilized, despite appearing in nearly every frame of the film.

Name : Dre Rivas / Alias : Film.com
Go see Quantum of Solace. Not that you weren't going to anyway.

Name : Derek Elley / Alias : Variety
Stripped of Royale's humor, elegance and reinvented old-school stylishness, Quantum has little left except its plot, which is rudimentary and slightly barmy, in the line of the Roger Moore pics of the '70s and '80s.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
Quantum of Solace, the 22nd entry in the interminable franchise, is one of the most pointless, chaotic and forgettable of them all. It is also one of the dullest.

Name : Rick Groen / Alias : Globe and Mail
A silly spy may be laughable, but a sulking thug is just a bore.

Name : Christopher Orr / Alias : The New Republic
Mr. White ultimately leads Bond to one Mr. Slate, who in turn leads him to a Mr. Greene. That's right: The global conspiracy this time around isn't SPECTRE, but some rogue wing of the United Colors of Benetton.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Revenge is a dish best served with bullets, high explosives and giant rolling flameballs. In Quantum of Solace, James Bond orders the revenge buffet, deluxe.

Name : Ray Bennett / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
[An] all-out thriller with few Bond touches but plenty of high-octane action.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
Forster is indeed a fine director, but he's hardly a specialist in action films, and it shows. He can't quite keep things moving fast enough to speed past the absurdity of the premise.

Name : Lisa Kennedy / Alias : Denver Post
With [this] too-shaken sequel, the Bond market experiences a dip.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
The action and eye candy may be worth the ticket price, but this Bond needs to get back to business.

Name : Ben Lyons / Alias : At the Movies
While charm and a quick wit made Connery the best of the Bonds, it's Craig's brute force and Jackie Chan-style stunts that will come to define this latest reincarnation.

Name : Dana Stevens / Alias : Slate
Forster, a director of upscale tearjerkers, has no feel for action sequences. The big chases, of which there are several, could all be replaced with a title card reading, 'Insert action here'.

Name : David Ansen / Alias : Newsweek
Quantum of Solace isn't frivolous or cheesy, but it isn't all that much fun either. Craig is still the right guy for the job, but for his boiling-on-the-inside performance to work, he needs more to play with.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Quantum of Solace won't trust its own darker instincts. It delivers the popcorn goods, but it ignores the poison eating at Bond's insides. Killer mistake.

Name : Mark Rahner / Alias : Seattle Times
Marc Forster seems like a counterintuitive choice to direct an action spectacle. But any doubts I might have had flew out the window and splattered onto the hood of a parked car during an early, hellacious brawl.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Quantum of Solace benefits from imaginatively conceived action sequences and from a director, Marc Forster, who knows how to film them.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
The stunts are as muscular and the film as handsome to look at as the hero who so ably pulls them off. But the story linking it all together is thin and weak.

Name : Robert Wilonsky / Alias : Village Voice
If nothing else, there's no need to worry about where Quantum of Solace fits in the Bond pantheon - it's easily one of the worst.

Name : Roger Moore / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
It fairly races by, a sexy, sadistic, cruel and crackling thriller that is the shortest Bond film since Goldfinger, and certainly the most brisk.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : I.E. Weekly
Forster is elbowing us to agree that the franchise in his reins is just another spectacle.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
The film makes such headlong leaps of motivation and locale that it would take a master spy to decipher why Bond is going where he goes and doing what he does.