Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
An enjoyable documentary, with some painless lessons. And a good heart, too .

Name : Stephen Farber / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The film should hit the sweet spot for family audiences.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
Stick around for the credits to find out how pivotal scenes were shot for this worthy addition to Disney's long tradition of nature family films.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
It's hard to imagine what message children will take away from this film other than that monkeys are just like characters in a fictional Disney movie, which they are not.

Name : Janice Page / Alias : Boston Globe
It's been clear for awhile now that Tina Fey rules. "Monkey Kingdom" is just the latest entertainment to benefit.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
If you don't love monkeys already - and really, we all should - then "Monkey Kingdom" will swing you in the right direction.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Monkey Kingdom" tugs our heartstrings to the top of the trees. With a lot of patience, and perhaps a little trickery, directors Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill have produced a simian "Cinderella."

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
You couldn't do much better than "Monkey Kingdom" to get kids invested in learning about, and protecting, the natural world.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
The story of the colony's exile and return feels like a dull sermon, but the animals themselves, with their expressive faces and Moe Howard hairdos, can switch from slapstick to pathos faster than Charlie Chaplin.

Name : Barbara VanDenburgh / Alias : Arizona Republic
Although its chief asset is its inherently entertaining subject matter, "Monkey Kingdom" does far more than just let the cameras roll: It teases a compelling drama out of one monkey tribe's complicated social hierarchy .

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
The cheekiest, funniest, and most purely entertaining entry in the Disneynature series.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
You're likely to laugh and learn in equal measure-and so will your little ones.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
You know how nature docs work. You forgive the hoked-up comic relief . and tasteful allusions to death and dying and procreation because the tight shots of Maya's lil' Kip are so durn cuuuuute.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
A populist take on simian society and alpha leadership leads to an entertaining look at caste systems in the animal kingdom.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
"Monkey Kingdom" clocks in at a very digestible 82 minutes and doesn't overstay its welcome. It doesn't monkey around - that's left to the film's subjects, who are more than happy to oblige.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Monkey Kingdom is delightful, and its swinging and vaulting best any stuntwork you'll see in this year's summer blockbusters .

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
As much fun as a tree full of toque macaques, Monkey Kingdom is arguably the most entertaining of Disneynature's eight features.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
This may be an unabashed, Disneyfied version of nature. But it's also fun, touching, and expertly assembled.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Monkeys.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The film offers a valuable life lesson in the powers of determination and timing, but most of all it's darned entertaining.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Although suffused with welcome touches of sly humor, the proceedings never gather the necessary dramatic momentum.

Name : Connie Ogle / Alias : Miami Herald
Focus is a shiny, stylish shell game of a film that, much like its protagonists, relies on breezy chatter, a good sense of humor and a lot of misdirection to succeed.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Focus' problem isn't that its stars lack charm, but that it's squeezed into tight spaces between protracted explanations of setups, backstories, and twists-a poor example of the every-shot-must-convey-narrative-information school of filmmaking.

Name : Richard Brody / Alias : New Yorker
That sound you hear is the high-fives in the writers' room, and that, unfortunately, is where the filmmakers' focus remains.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Smith wears it like a well-tailored suit, and the brisk, snappy dialogue is well delivered by an able cast.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
In this lame caper, the biggest scam perpetrated is the one that makes audiences think they'll have a good time.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Unfortunately, since the major characters' salient character traits are insincerity, opaqueness and untruthfulness, it's hard to invest much interest in any of them.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
It's not that the movie keeps you guessing with its intricacy, it's more like it's making it up as it goes along.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Like a counterfeit handbag: It looks great but falls apart when you reach into it.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
What keeps the film humming along as smoothly as it does is the chemistry and charisma of its leads.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Even if you're willing to forgive its sinkhole plotholes and farthest-fetched conceits, the film - from cowriters/co-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa - ultimately makes no sense.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Even in a lark about con artists working through their trust issues, we need more.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It's yet another reminder that if it's not called "The Sting," you shouldn't get too comfortable with a con-game movie.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"Focus" is ridiculous in every detail. It's a movie with no truth, that teaches nothing and shows nothing, that has only its audacity to recommend it.

Name : James Rocchi / Alias : TheWrap
Like a perfect cocktail mixes the sour with the sweet and the bright with the boozy, "Focus" combines seamless, superbly-crafted filmmaking with the fizz and fun created by its leads.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
[For Smith,] Focus isn't a full return to brilliance but a welcome stop, hopefully, on the way there.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
Sexy stars, pretty cities, nice music and some tricky action. If that's a con game, well - I'm happy to be had. And you will be, too.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Smith and Robbie, both going through the motions, don't click at all, and Robbie in particular has nothing to play.

Name : Randy Myers / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
This kind of film needs a punchy right hook to follow up its clever, if outlandish, jab late in the game, and "Focus" doesn't deliver.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
The two stars are dazzling distractions. Robbie is a wow and then some. The Aussie actress shows a comic flair backed up with beauty and steel. Even when Focus fumbles, Robbie deals a winning hand.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Smith's natural charisma has been dulled by special effects bonanzas and/or a desire to play against type. In "Focus," he feels like himself again, and he reminds you why he became one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the first place.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
If Grace Kelly had been raised by coyotes, she might have stalked the screen like Focus' Margot Robbie, a va-va-voom blonde with bite

Name : Barbara VanDenburgh / Alias : Arizona Republic
Although it brings nothing new to the con-artist fold, or even anything thrilling, "Focus" is a seductive enough rehash that benefits from the built-in pleasures of the trade.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The Hollywood stakes for Smith are as high as they are for the con man he plays. As it stands, "Focus" just might be a game changer.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
It does enough things right to earn a recommendation, but there are misfires aplenty for those who care to look for them.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
The film itself comes to feel like a con, thanks to a script that's too clever by two-thirds, and butterfingered in the ways of portraying love.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
Mostly, it is fun to watch Will Smith and Margot Robbie, and to marvel at whatever divine or evolutionary miracle concentrated so much charisma in the two of them.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Smith and Robbie are terrific together. At various points along the way, he's playing her, and then she's playing him, and then we're almost positive they've let their collective guard down and they're really in love . Or are they?

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
Co-stars Will Smith and Margot Robbie remain consistently charismatic, even once the script for this heist caper collapses in a punishing pile of its own twists and double-crosses.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
There's much to be said for a film that doesn't overreach, delivers on most of its promises and gets the audience out the door in just over an hour and a half.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Decent but unremarkable . the kind of movie you see with some pleasure but no dreams of sequels or remakes.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
At times . Focus resembles a commercial for a pricey brand of liquor, an elite hotel or a luxury car more than a story-driven movie.

Name : Lisa Kennedy / Alias : Denver Post
It's a shiny, diverting ride. (And right about now, that's OK.)

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
Drunk on its perfume-ad cinematography and doesn't know when to quit with its double-double cross plotting.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
While not quite the "art" it's billed to be, if the perfect con is about diverting one's focus, then this one keeps you distracted till the end.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
A predictably unpredictable tale of conmen and women complete with the industry-mandated quantity of fast cars, short skirts, sharp suits, slippery billionaires and "Oh, it was that guy all along!" plot twists.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
This is the kind of movie where we're not supposed to know at any time who is playing whom, but since the characterizations are glossy and paper-thin, it's difficult to get worked up about who gets fleeced.

Name : Richard Corliss / Alias : TIME Magazine
The mix of longtime star and minx on the rise is one tasty element in the success of a movie that approaches the modest goals and effortless allure of a 60-year-old Hitchcock.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
You come out feeling you've been had by well-intentioned crooks who aren't ready for the big show.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
We can't say we weren't warned. Will Smith has been telling us not to trust him the entire movie.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
The story is ludicrous.Yet Focus, Will Smith's mea culpa to moviegoers after the post-apocalyptic tedium of After Earth two years ago, is more breezily enjoyable than it has a right to be.

Name : Andrew Lapin / Alias : NPR
The second half feels like Ficarra and Requa ran out of ideas and just hit restart.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
It's beautifully photographed and entertaining, with charming performances by Will Smith and newcomer Margot Robbie that tease and tantalize. You won't be bored.