1.   Hanks the writer-director insinuates a subtle current of tension throughout the basically lighthearted movie, hinting at outbursts that he wisely saves until the last reel.

2.   In the last reel, when the story collapses in a chaotic flurry of indecision, a climactic horse-jumping event does nothing to cast any helpful light.

3.   It sustains an austere tone and staves off weepiness until the last reel.

4.   Its least necessary flourish is a horde of rats in the last reel, even if they do figure helpfully in the plot.

5.   Only toward the last reel does this earnest satire begin taking itself a bit too seriously.

6.   Stick around for the last reel, when her totally improbable function in the story is revealed.

7.   The academy members were reluctant to embrace dark films, especially if they lacked some sort of feel-good uplift in the last reel.

8.   To be gay meant you died in the last reel.

9.   Two hits and one unearned run through eight innings, and the picture looked bluer than Leonardo DiCaprio in the last reel.

10.   When the lights came up after the last reel ended, the critique began.