Avatar (2009)
Critic Reviews
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Avatar's shock and awe demand to be seen. You've never experienced anything like it, and neither has anyone else.
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The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
A fully believable, flesh-and-blood (albeit not human flesh and blood) romance is the beating heart of "Avatar." Cameron has never made a movie just to show off visual pyrotechnics: Every bit of technology in "Avatar" serves the greater purpose of a deeply felt love story.
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
Avatar is entertainment of the highest order. It's the best movie of 2009.
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Premiere
This is, simply put, one of the most beautiful movies you'll ever see.
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Once again, [Cameron] has silenced the doubters by simply delivering an extraordinary film. There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely.
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90
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Much of the time, though, you're transfixed by the beauty of a spectacle that seems all of a piece. Special effects have been abolished, in effect, since the whole thing is so special.
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88
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Tone-deaf but thunderously exciting.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Avatar delivers. Combining beyond-state-of-the-art moviemaking with a tried-and-true storyline and a gamer-geek sensibility - not to mention a love angle, an otherworldly bestiary, and an arsenal of 22d-century weaponry - the movie quite simply rocks.
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
As visual spectacle, Avatar is indelible, but as a movie it all but evaporates as you watch it.
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USA Today Claudia Puig
The scenes in Pandora -- a planet with an Earth-like environment -- are so breathtaking that the narrative seems almost beside the point.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Vast, beautiful and meticulously detailed.
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60
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New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Avatar clears the hurdle in terms of being optical candy. Its story, though, is pure cheese.
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