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4.5
Sully, a soldier at heart, doesnt think twice before accepting Quaritchs mission.
Den Of Geek
2.0
As spectacle, Avatar is indelible a true rush but as a movie it all but evaporates as you watch it.
EW
5.0
I might be awesome in True IMAX.Good luck in getting a ticket before February.
Rogerebert
4.0
What if the director of the highest grossing movie ever made (Titanic) spent a rumored $500 million on a spectacular futuristic sci fi epic and no one ..
Common Sense Media
4.5
Sacha Baron Cohens debut is like a Rorschach test that only reinforces what viewers already believe, but there are hard hitting truths.
Indie Wire
4.5
If you dont take this, Im going to find an unknown actor and give it to him, because the movie doesnt really need you.
We Got This Covered
4.5
With all this said, its not like Marvels going to be shaking in its boots if Endgame doesnt reach the top.
We Got This Covered
2.0
Pandora and its luridly coloured inhabitants are beautifully designed, though none of this ever feels remotely real.
Time Out
5.0
James Camerons Avatar is through and through his babyit promises a lot and, though it has very little in the way of stamina, it initially delivers in ..
2.5
Its motion capture majesty in the service of lifeless romance and mushy headed allegory.
3.8
Most amazingly, Avatars special effects didnt swamp the performances of the actors, even when they were in their blue skinned virtual form.Still, for ..
5.0
12 years after Titanic, James Cameron delivers his latest blockbuster and once again takes cinema to a new level of remarkable spectacle.
Screen Daily
4.0
For Indophiles and Indian philosophy enthusiasts, Avatar is a whole treatise on Indianism, from the very word Avatar itself.
ETimes (TOI)
4.5
Thankfully, Cameron doesnt get distracted by his new toolkit and forget to make a film thats exciting and expertly paced.
Collider
4.5
And the film succeeds best as a travelogue for a planet that doesnt exist.
Collider
4.5
Its every fairy tale about flying dragons, magic plants, weirdly hypnotic creepy crawlies and feral dogs rolled up into a rain forest with a highly ad ..
The Hollywood Reporter
4.0
Its thrilling and lovely and sad and explosive in all the right ways, and it needs to be seen on the big screen, in 3 D to be believed.
5.0
Its almost completely hokey, but its also a major work, a first class piece of big mainstream filmmaking.
E Film Critic
1.0
Little more than this decades The Phantom Menace, both in terms of the intense expectations that it has generated and the shockingly banal ways in whi ..
E Film Critic
3.0
The most expensive movie ever.The film with the wildest, most breathtaking and out there digital effects any director has ever hatched up.
Telegraph
4.5
But Camerons ecological message is a powerful and surprisingly emotional one.
Telegraph
4.4
Once again, it features an epic length and bouts of corny dialogue.
San Francisco Chronicle
5.0
None of it is essential, plot wise, but it adds a little more excitement and colour to your Pandoran stay.
3.0
One presumes that Cameron missed the irony in making a preachy, anti technology movie using the most technologically advanced tools available.
Cinema Blend
4.0
Cameron has returned to tell us that all we need is a slight and earnest story, a few good characters to carry it along, and thrilling visuals to swee ..
Cinema Blend
3.0
A scientist (a tough Sigourney Weaver) created the process to aid diplomatic relations with the Navi, since the air is poisonous to humans and space s ..
Ny Daily News
3.0
This film has been hyped to death. Groundbreaking! Amazing! It will change the industry! Im sure youve heard it all. And in some ways, its so very, ve ..
JoBlo
3.5
AVATAR is not the kick ass, mind blowing James Cameron movie I was hoping for, but its a perfectly serviceable sci fi adventure thats well worth seein ..
JoBlo
4.0
In some ways this almost felt like a continuation of that film if not in story, then in characters and hardware.
Screen Rant
3.8
Big money, big risk, pretty big reward. Thats been his consistent pattern, and its high time to give credit where credit is overdue: James Cameron del ..
The Globe And Mail
4.4
Cameron is not a filmmaker to shy away from spectacle and the gizmos to deliver it.
Philly
5.0
Up in the Air is one of the best films of 2009.It is directed by Jason Reitman whose genius for compelling storytelling and creative dramas has been r ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.0
The technical wizardry is at the service of a recycled plot and a script rife with cardboard characters...and dialogue that sounds as though it had be ..
One Guys Opinion
1.5
The muscular, coming atcha visuals trump the movies camp dialogue and corny conception, but only up to a point.
Village Voice
2.0
Ultimately the film drags its feet without fresh ideas or a solid script still the essentials needed for good film making until the big conflict in th ..
Sover
5.0
Theres a rush associated with coming to Pandora; this feels more like an interactive endeavor than a passive one.In addition to being emotionally sati ..
ReelViews
2.5
But really its just long.It wants to dazzle and impress, but does so without the benefit of an emotional or personal connection; its a light show.
Combust Ible Celluloid
5.0
Motion capture animation, which transposes actors physical movements and facial expressions to digital characters onscreen, has never been executed wi ..
Chicago Reader
3.1
If pure spectacle was his primary goal, then Camerons accomplished it to a pretty fine degree.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
I already saw this story earlier this year in a CGI animation called Battle for Terra and I certainly didnt experience the sense of awe that I recall ..
4.4
Cameron couldnt have done anything other than what he did; this is a subject that shouldve been completely unfilmable.
Reel Film Reviews
4.5
The script at times isnt able to hold with direction that Cameron has provided.
FilmiBeat
3.0
Much of this film is generated by computer graphics, but it seems real enough and the visuals are wondrous.
Lariat
3.0
Were it not for the spectacular visuals, this would be a C grade movie at best.Oh, but those visuals!
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
If it looks good, and the principals make it fun, then I dont really care how stupid it is.The worst thing about Camerons latest epic is that he wants ..
News Review
3.0
Its the breathtakingly beautiful CGI landscape that somehow pulls the audience in on this tale of profit and progress versus natures power and infinit ..
Radio Times
3.0
While a team of military contractors lead by Col. Miles Quaritch (STEPHEN LANG) is raring to go guns blazing, Parker is allowing the diplomatic approa ..
Screen It
5.0
His long awaited Avatar is digital epic as attrition you cant escape being overwhelmed by it, but it doesnt leave you much thinking space.
Independent
3.5
Ritchie generates energy but no excitement we never fear for anyone because the danger is not remotely believable.
Independent
4.0
But strip the hype aside and what anyone wants to know is is it any good
Independent
4.4
Oscar can relax.The epic crowd pleaser the Academy lusted for is here, theone to show that the geezer voters are hip to what the kids want (3 D IMAX)a ..
Rolling Stone
4.5
Camerons focus on story and characters pays off by making the visual whizzery even more enjoyable.
Shadows On The Wall
5.0
The authors whose works we share with you in PopMatters 80 Best Books of 2018 from a couple of notable reissues to a number of excellent debuts poigna ..
Pop Matters
4.0
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Pop Matters
4.0
Despite a few flaws, Avatar is an extraordinary experience that more than lives up to the hype.
View London
3.0
But Pandora is still a good place to park yourself for three hours.
Cs Monitor
4.4
Cameron has in the past promised that Avatar would be a breakthrough for 3 D, but it is employed with relative subtlety in the version that I saw.
New York Post
5.0
Avatar, like Titanic before it, may inspire occasional fits of giggling and eye rolling, but its earnestness is preferable to the soulless machinery o ..
Film Journal International ..
3.1
Make no mistake, this science fiction thriller has a lot of things in its favor.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.0
If only Cameron, who also wrote the script, had spent as much time on the story as he did the effects he uses to tell it.
Az Central
4.4
Avatar is an entertainment to be not just seen but absorbed on a molecular level; its as close to a full body experience as well get until they invent ..
Boston
3.0
Instead, its a beautiful folly, a technical wonder that represents a failure of nerve.
Smh
3.5
However, as pure technical spectacle, Avatar is pretty impressive most of the time.
Mountain X
4.5
Avatar is the closest I will ever come to visiting another planet, and it was an exhilarating trip.
3.8
Twelve years after his triumph with Titanic, Cameron has successfully made a digital blockbuster feel as warm as an old time movie, where blood temper ..
Toronto Star
4.5
An extraordinary visual achievement somewhat hampered by pedestrian storytelling and cardboard characterizations.
Emanuellevy
5.0
Yet for all its brilliant imagery, is it any more than a smug sermon
Guardian
3.0
What an indie freaky idea it is and that is what makes it an experience.
Guardian
2.0
Its baggy, longwinded and, for all the light speed imagery, just not quick on its feet. Cameron used to be the tautest film maker around, but he just ..
Guardian
5.0
All three are landmark triumphs of money, spectacle and publicity over nuance.
Reel Talk Reviews
5.0
The opus has just enough soul to escape being hoisted on its own digitally sharpened petard.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.4
Like that film, Avatar is essentially about the tragedy of one culture ransacking another simply because they have the power to do so the sin of assum ..
Q Network
3.0
Is Avatar worth seeing Yes, on a big screen in 3D because it really is spectacular. The Navi are more expressive than any previous examples of motionc ..
Daily Mail
5.0
Thats what James Camerons phenomenon is like sitting through.An exhausting two and half hours basically amounts to nothing more than a carnival ride, ..
Cinema Crazed
5.0
But if you believe special effects blockbusters have the right to exist at all, if you respect the genre that brought us Star Wars and Raiders of the ..
Slate
5.0
It is, however, for its state of the art special effects that Avatar is most likely to be cherished.
Eye For Film
5.0
This is an event of a film, a spectacle that allows us to live the fantasy and one that, despite its length, keeps us connected till the very last fra ..
5.0
For 166 minutes, its so dazzling that one can forgive simplistic storytelling, stereotypical characters and clunky dialogue.
Susang Ranger
4.5
Did everything make sense Nope. And you know what Who cares! Avatar is thrilling, exciting and, best of all, something new that your eyeballs didnt ev ..
Observer
5.0
But Cameron seemingly micromanages the hell out of everything until its exactly the amount of shiny he wants it to be and, consequently, delivers huge ..
Movies
5.0
James Camerons Avatar is the most beautiful film Ive seen in years.Amid the hoopla over the new power of 3 D as a narrative form, and the excitement a ..
New Yorker
5.0
Dont resist it; sink in and fly with it.All Cameron asks is that you open your eyes.
Time
1.5
Avatar looks more like a cartoon on the small screen than it did in theaters, but anyone who owns a Pixar film on video knows that isnt meant as a sla ..
Slant Magazine
5.0
Its just a shame the storytelling hasnt progressed much beyond Star Trek.
Express
4.4
For his film adaptation of Maury Yestons stage musical Nine director/co choreographer Rob Marshall predictably brings a lot of diverting style razzle ..
Mr Brown Movies
3.5
The truth is, the basic story behind Avatar is predictable from the outset, but because its all wrapped up in such a captivating package, its easy (an ..
Bullz-Eye
3.0
Avatar isnt merely a marvel of special effectsits a fount of creativity, with each alien creature representing a beautifully original design.
Las Vegas Weekly
4.0
Whatever way you choose to look at it, Avatars shock and awe demand to be seen. Youve never experienced anything like it, and neither has anyone else.
Calendar Live
3.5
While the movie is intended for every age group, I believe the pitch is to adults, and the intent is to create a sense of guilt.
The Atlantic
4.0
James Camerons long awaited sci fi epic is every bit as wondrous and imaginative as promised. Prepare to be amazed.
Hollywood
4.0
Filmed in mind blowing IMAX 3 D, the story is so entertaining that I soon paid little attention to the 3 D.
Tony Medley
2.0
Avatar may well be a perfect film to desensitize young audiences before they get the call up.
Coles Mithey
4.4
is still the king of action and suspense, the last third such a visceral whirlwind of kinetically staged mayhem my eyes almost popped right out of the ..
Movie Freak
3.8
And heres the other downside.Almost all of the effort in Avatar has gone into its look, and it clearly shows.
4.5
The Bottom Line: Avatar is a fun, imaginative film that brings some popcorn flick excitement to an otherwise dreary holiday movie lineup.
3.8
Still, as a Tarzan meets Aliens jungle adventure, Avatar is both a visually intriguing diversion and instant movie history.
Groucho Reviews
4.5
Benedict Cumberbatch Wants You To Know He *Is* The Motherf*cking Grinch The Grinch star takes Mike Ryan through the final scenes of Avengers: Infinity ..
Hit Fix
5.0
The visuals are mind blowing gorgeous to look at and inviting to become lost in.The action is relentless and imaginative.
Aisle Seat
5.0
And it has been well and truly worth it.It is important to emphasise that Avatar is not just trading on its looks, extraordinary as they are in 3 D.
Herald Sun
3.8
But even if this is old fashioned storytelling, theres a lot of it and it has Camerons directing DNA in every scene.
Nj
3.8
And when the two civilizations collide the destruction is on a grand and very cinematic scale.
Movie Habit
4.5
See it in IMAX 3D.This presentation is easily one of the most spectacular things you will see on the big screen.
7M Pictures
3.5
The combination of special effects, creatures and immersion into a 3D world lend Avatar a kind of grandeur that thrives despite the clunkiness of Came ..
Boxoffice Magazine
3.0
Believe the hype. James Camerons decade in the making sci fi dream project...is an immersive epic unlike any other.
E Online
2.0
A spectacular visual experience unlike anything youve seen before.
Film School Rejects
3.0
Set on the distant, forest covered moon of Pandora, the story tells of Jake Sully (Australian actor Sam Worthington), a paraplegic former marine recru ..
The Age
4.5
It seems so real you may be tempted to book a trip there yourself.
Maki At The Movies
4.5
The level of detail and creativity surrounding the look of director James Camerons new world is simply astonishing.
5.0
You come instead for the new fashioned version of the old fashioned spectacle, to marvel at things that have truly never been seen on a motion picture ..
La Weekly
5.0
After revisiting Pandora via Blu ray transmission, I have to state the obvious: this is some serious movie making. Theres good reason its the highest ..
Varia Gate
3.0
It is far too long and the romance is half hearted. Still, youd have to travel very far to feel so fully immersed in another world.
Digital Spy
3.0
This could have been Dances With Wolves on acid, but instead its like a rave with hippies (on acid). Trippy, but not as deep as it thinks it is.
Digital Spy
4.5
But the film is compromised by a rather juvenile story exposition.A pity.
Abc
3.0
Anyone with an interest in films and filmmaking will appreciate what writer director James Cameron has achieved.
Cleve Land
4.0
The villains are mostly out of pantomime; much of the dialogue needs a stretcher; and the save the rainforest plot is a pain. Just take your eyes to t ..
Ft
3.5
Rather Mr. Cameron uses 3 D to amplify the immersive experience of spectacle cinema.
Ny Times
2.5
Never is director Cameron able to elicit tension.By the chaotic, almost never ending third act, it has become a bunch of empty, thrill free spectacle ..
Dustin Put Man
4.3
I think its a brilliantly realized, technically superior movie.I dont hate it: I think its pretty obvious, a dumb story with simply awful dialogue but ..
Ar Kansas Online
4.4
None of this may actually exist, but if you have acrophobia, you might want to avoid Avatar altogether.
Larsen On Film
4.4
Full of that rare movie magic which can transport, entertain and intrigue, this sci fi fantasy is a fun amusement park ride that emerges you into a fr ..
Christianity Today
5.0
A born again, freshly buffed wheelchair warrior turned unwitting capitalist tool in league with a digitalized free spirit princess, takes on forest fo ..
News Blaze
5.0
Forget dancing with wolves, howzabout doing the Funky Chicken with aliens
News Blaze
4.4
This production has fine tuned its focused tale to unwind perfectly.
Ross Anthony
5.0
The film itself is certainly one of the years most exciting and entertaining, a visionary piece of filmmaking you can enjoy on any number of levels.
Hollywood And Fine
4.5
Its a 3D movie people will look back on in years to come to comment on how it transformed cinema.
The Sun
3.0
a bold and imaginative vision brought low by a script that plays it very, very safe
Killer Movie Reviews
4.5
If cinema is pure escapism, then Avatar provides the ultimate journey to a world unlike anything seen before it, with a deep spiritual core giving sub ..
Matts Movie Reviews
2.0
A shame.Avatar is a tremendous disappointment, but perhaps only a mediocre film.
Brian Or Ndorf
4.4
But in terms of action and cinematic spectacle, Avatar represented a magnum opus for Cameron, motion capture performance and the digital 3 D format.
The Filmy Ap
3.0
I was bored silly by Camerons ham handed tale in which glitz trumps substance at every turn.
Patriot Ledger
4.0
It stops being a story at all and is instead just a sheer, unmitigated visual and auditory experience, two hours and forty minutes of being exposed to ..
Antagony & Ecstasy
4.4
The physicality and emotion of her performance may finally make the Academy realize what Andy Serkis has been saying for years: performance capture is ..
Big Picture Big Sound
3.1
One can just feel Robert Zemeckis drooling at every cinematic frame.
5.0
Its one of the most vivid, visceral movies youve ever seen. Its cheesy enough for ten Swiss villages. Its James Cameron delivering an action thrill ri ..
Io9 Gizmodo
4.6
Youll often find yourself exhilarated, thrilled and immersed by the captivating story.
Nyc Movie Guru
3.8
The sheer spectacle of exploring this virtual world is an adventure, even if the guides are a little lame.
Js Online
5.0
Avatar is transporting from beginning to end and meticulously edited to make the story flow and forget about the technique.
Movie Crypt
5.0
Thats the thing other filmmakers should remember: what makes Avatar so extraordinary is not just the fact that James Cameron orchestrates some of the ..
Montreal Film Journal
4.0
Avatar is James Cameron doing what he does best blowing things up with awesome special effects, while tying the set pieces together with a story worth ..
Sky
3.0
Cameron plainly has higher priorities than detailed characterisations.
Sbs
4.0
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3.0
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4.0
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4.0
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
5.0
Nothing less than the single greatest technical achievement in modern cinematic history, thats what.
The Shiz Nit
4.5
The future of Avatar isnt shiny like Star Wars or apocalyptic like Terminator.
Bitly
4.0
This may not be a classic, but its certainly the must see ticket this holiday.
Metro
3.8
That in itself is a great key to why this movie has such mass appeal.Avatar taps into a very modern, seemingly not too far off fantasy.
Scene Stealers
4.5
Watching the movie was eye popping without being eye aching, and as immersive an experience as Cameron has been promising.
What So
3.0
Bioluminescence marks the ground where feet fall, the vertical dimension is as much a factor as the horizontal, and although many of the creatures are ..
Scifi Now
2.0
Deep down, Avatar is bone headed, but its also beautiful not just exciting and technically impressive, like Jurassic Park, but wondrous and exhilarati ..
Decent Films
5.0
James Cameron promised audiences a 2001: A Space Odyssey for this generation, but Avatar is closer to Star Wars than 2001.
Scifi Movie Page
4.0
I am happy to say that you may now raise your lowered expectations and submit yourself to the visceral onslaught that is Avatar, one of the most gripp ..
Streaming Quickflix
5.0
The vein of awe mined by the movie is nothing short of unbelievium.
Wsj
4.0
Hardwired for hyperbole, as sensational as it is ridiculous, Avatar is, simply, a feat of fearless imagination and audacity.
Jam! Movies
5.0
Thats a bad sign for writer director Cameron.Its doubtful that Avatar, special effects and saturation ad campaign notwithstanding, will ever sell as m ..
East Bay Express
4.5
Cameron has the gift for making Bollywood movies with a Hollywood armoury.
India Today
3.8
While it wasnt the most original narrative, it serves the film well, even if it was merely a template for Cameron to show us this gorgeous world and i ..
3.5
James Cameron seeks revolution not only in the way we see movies, but in the way we see life. Avatar is revolutionary in that it tries to shake up est ..
Tony Mack
4.0
The groundbreaking FX work is worth the price of admission alone, while the rollicking adventure story should find fans from eight to 80.
Film4
4.5
However, Avatar succeeds not so much because of its cast and narrative, but for the amazing world created by Cameron and his designers and special eff ..
The Australian
3.0
Given that Guy Ritchies Sherlock Holmes turns the great sleuth (Robert Downey Jr.) and his sidekick, Dr. Watson (Jude Law), into the boxing and martia ..
Ny Mag
5.0
The hero is a run of the mill wounded soldier who shows compassion, and the love story between Sully and Neytiri is predictable and lacks passion.Most ..
The National
5.0
But the brilliance of Avatars script involves its multiple intriguing elements.
Review Express
3.0
James Camerons Avatar is the most amazing ... no, wait: the most staggeringly amazing, jaw droppingly triple awesome unbelievable movie ever made.
M Tv
4.4
They are, simply put, amazing.Cameron spent much of the time working on this film developing the technology to convey realistic scenes and performance ..
Cinema Sight
5.0
With sumptuous cinematography, gorgeous visuals and action sequences packed with real excitement and tension, Avatar is a breathtaking, overwhelmingly ..
Fan The Fire Magazine
4.0
James Cameron invented a world comparable to George Lucas galaxy of long ago, far, far away and as original as what Peter Jackson did with J.R.R. Tolk ..
Tri City Herald
3.8
James Cameron, in his first feature film since Titanic in 1997, has the right to reclaim the title of King of the (Cinematic) World with this monument ..
Entertainment Spectrum
5.0
With Avatar, James Cameron once again revolutionizes how we make and watch cinema.
2.5
Avatar might well be, as some have speculated, the future of movies in this case, the longest, loudest , most expensive ad for a video game ever made.
Boston Phoenix
1.5
First, theres the cinematic world building, and on this metric, its a truly remarkable achievement.
Datebook Sfchronicle
3.0
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New York Time Out
3.0
The acting was just okay, though Zoe Saldanas Neytiri portrayal is a standout.
Reel Talk Online
3.5
Its great looking.This movie feels exactly like watching your friend play the new exciting video game.
The Scorecard Review
3.5
It doesnt take great art to entertain and I can think of many worse ways to spend my three hours and $10.
Spectrum Culture
4.5
Its an impossible dilemma and I think theres an elegance to conveying all of this with simplicity, and not in your face preaching.Its just hey, heres ..
Can Mag
1.5
... a largely humorless movie that plays like the sensitive white man goes native saga, Dances with Wolves in Outer Space.
Vulture
5.0
A technical groundbreaker, if not a cinematic one, James Camerons long awaited return delivers on its promise to be a fully immersive, rousing spectac ..
Dark Horizons
4.5
Yes, Avatar is essentially a sci fi version of the Pocahontas story.)Still, dont think that Avatar is some haughty, New Age y message movie about envi ..
Movies Ign
4.0
Wayhomer Review #4: Avatar Episode #4, in which our protagonist makes it through Camerons return to feature film dom without his bladder exploding, ge ..
Need Coffee
3.0
A mostly motion capture movie featuring the Mother of all battles.
Compuserve
4.4
Delivers on a grand scale something wonderful and timeless, an old fashioned adventure told with seamless groundbreaking technology
The Dispatch (Lexington, N ..
5.0
Whats left is the pulverizing spectacle of computer graphics on parade, a visceral thrill to behold and an emotional void to contemplate.
Cine Passion
3.8
To be sure, McCarthys vision is bleak and Hillcoat captures it perfectly.
Illinois Times
2.0
If I wanted to hear endless nonsense spewed from something good looking, Id watch The Tyra Banks Show.
Metromix.com
5.0
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Ny Press
3.8
Camerons eye popping visuals are the story, particularly because the actual narrative is too simple to sustain the 150 minute run time.
Hollywood News
4.4
With great power comes great responsibility as another big budget icon noted and great responsibility brings the weight of enormous expectations.
Critics Notebook
3.0
The years most ambitious film is so breathtaking, it detracts you from the fact that Camerons characters are caricatures, and too much of the dialogue ..
Week In Rewind
3.0
But I think the Spider Man mythology transcends not only generations but directors as well.
Eclipse Magazine
5.0
Avatar, ultimately, is a film free from subtlety and complexity.If Cameron had tightened up the film and livened it up with some innovation, it could ..
Kpbs
4.5
Camerons latest is scary and exciting and entertaining as hell, even if its far too early and too conventional in too many ways to herald it as any ki ..
Cinematical
3.5
Avatar is a very big, very enjoyable, summertime action film that, much as it covers several actors in computer generated imagery, drapes new flesh ov ..
MSN Movies
5.0
With Avatar, Cameron has created the first great epic of the 21st century and a new benchmark in filmmaking. No wonder that this took 4 years to produ ..
The Diva Review
4.5
Ive seen it performed twice and as a girl had the original Broadway cast recording down cold.
Movie Line
4.5
Besides, such gripes are just so incredibly minor compared to the sheer beauty and exhilarating visuals at the forefront of Avatar.
Cinema Autopsy
4.5
He does what Peter Jackson did a few years back with the Lord of the Rings trilogy using the million dollar budget smartly and tactfully to create a v ..
Mid Day
4.5
Screenwriter Julian Fellowes has managed to make this story a coming of age tale first.
Kc Active
5.0
The movie is gorgeous, funny, fun, and engrossing in a way that a lot of movies aim for but few achieve.
Premiere Magazine
3.5
As adventure movies go, it is impressively new in every way except the way that matters most storytelling. Its look will last. But its heart wont go o ..
Looking Closer
5.0
Works as both a socially conscious Western update and as a true SF film, revealing the influences of such fine genre writers as Philip Jose Farmer, La ..
Gomemphis
4.5
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Sfx
5.0
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Cine Rina
3.1
A movie whose effects are clearly revolutionary, a spectacle that millions will find adventure in. But it nevertheless feels unsatisfying and somehow ..
Google
3.0
Avatar is a completely engaging cinematic experience, rendered in a 3 D more immersive by several factors than anything ever seen.And the quality of b ..
Blog Oregonlive
3.4
There is so much that is remarkable about Avatar that its failings clunky writing, clumsy love story are easily brushed away.
D Cist
1.5
The critics and the media generally are terribly impressed with Cameron and Avatar because of the massive amounts of money involved, both in its produ ..
World Socialist Web Site
3.0
At this pace, I will be down the aisle with Zsa Zsa Gabor before Im down the aisle on my next epic adventure..Much will be made of the photorealistic ..
Movie Juice
4.5
Spiritually moving, visually daring and emotionally stirring, Avatar is classic storytelling at its very best.
Blu Ray Ign
5.0
Spectacular Exciting Beautiful Unique Yes, yes, yes and oh HELL yes. Its like nothing else youve ever seen. And believe me you need to see it.
News Of The World
3.0
Nothing destroys a decent movie more than calling it great, and while this ones a little better than decent, its definitely a long way from great.
Mania.com
2.5
But everything about the story, the setting, the dialog, and the parts that arent purely visual is awful.
Gost Dog
3.0
After a second viewing at a better theater, I feel this movie is more fresh than rotten. The stunning visuals are slightly better than the unoriginal ..
5.0
Avatar looks amazing on Blu ray. If the plot wasnt so pedestrian, it could have been a great film. Paul Chambers, CNN.
Rotten Tomatoes
3.0
if it runs out of imagination and even some credibility when it comes to the plot, well, there is still enough on the screen to qualify as entertainin ..
Rotten Tomatoes
4.0
But the plot definitely comes second place to the spectacular visuals and never wields the dramatic impact it should have.Avatar offers a truly awesom ..
Daily Record
4.0
This movie is for anyone who wants to go on a journey far, far away.
Fotogramas
1.9
For all of the talk about how Avatar is going to revolutionize moviemaking and change films forever, the finished product is nothing more than just an ..
Dc5
4.0
The detail, the depth, the jaw dropping boldness of Avatar simply bowl you over.
This Is London
3.1
The picture Mr. Cameron presents to us may be a real achievement, visually, but the story is a total rehash.
Washington Times
3.3
Cameron only cares that his characters are three dimensional visually. And he certainly doesnt care that his story is hackneyed, corny and trite.
Chud
1.5
Avatar a film directed by James Cameron 1.Two hugely popular mashupshomemade videos that humorously juxtapose material from different sourcesthat are ..
Ny Books
2.0
So Camerons long awaited, much second guessed Avatar, a ridiculously expensive to produce, CGI driven, 3 D epic, works best as an insanely expanded Ki ..
Mubi
1.5
1963 2005 Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park was the greatest wax museum in the world.
3.8
Who needs 3 D The Blu ray Avatar jumps off the small screen until the directors clunky moralizing takes over.
Washington Times
5.0
Like the best of roller coaster rides, Avatar is invigorating and exhilarating, but like all roller coaster rides, that momentary thrill grows more fa ..
Zaki's Corner
4.5
Much has already been written of the films spectacle and theres no hyperbole in asserting its groundbreaking look.
Movie Views
3.0
It is cool. But all this change the way you look at films hype is just that. While Avatar is impressively seamless, youre never fooled. This doesnt lo ..
Dallas News
5.0
Just roll with it, take in the incredible sights and youll be fine.
Maki At The Movies Blogspo ..
4.4
Step 1: Listen up, all aspiring 3D filmmakers: Pay attention to what James Cameron has done with his truly spectacular looking Avatar.
The Movie Kit
3.8
The digital world of Pandora is spellbinding. The imagination on display from Cameron and his visual effects team is breathtaking.
We Boughta Blog
4.4
My expectations were more than satisfied by Avatar, a spectacular flight of fancy that has a strong enough story to keep up with and be enhanced by th ..
Atlantic City Weekly
2.5
The plot, sadly, is so predictable I found myself saying lines of dialogue before they happened.
Ladue News
4.5
Avatar may be a technical masterpiece, but there are deep storytelling flaws that keep the film from working as the complete experience promised by th ..
Movie Retriever
3.5
Entertaining enough and stunning to look at but essentially an exceedingly detailed three hour video game without the benefit of remote controls
Knight At The Movies
5.0
Avatar truly is something else, a wondrously detailed visual extravaganza quite unlike anything youve seen before.
Daily Mirror (UK)
4.5
By definitively blending animation and live action, Cameron has broken the CG barrier, presenting us with a film that easily travels from the human wo ..
3.0
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Ifc
3.0
This sci fi epic would be a masterpiece if judged solely on its technical merits.
Projection Booth Blog Spot ..
3.1
Breaks technological ground with stunning visuals, but disappoints on story and characters which still do matter.
Sea Coast Online
2.0
Avatar can hold your attention due to its visuals, but youll find your mind drifting as what you assume is going to happen happens exactly as you thou ..
hoganreviews.co.uk
3.8
The only film capable of surpassing Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as the Fanboy Fave of 2009, James Camerons massively hyped Avatar at least dif ..
3.0
One of the best films of the year. However, Avatars message of human greed and unnecessary needs is nearly laughable considering the flick is one of t ..
BET.com
4.5
If none of this makes sense, it will when youare viewing this romantic thriller.
Culture Catch
4.5
Avatar is a visually spectacular entertainment with a broadly anti imperialist message.
Louis Proyect Word Press
4.0
Rarely a boring moment or unnecessary scene. Avatar isnt going to redefine movies as we know them, but on the level of pure visual spectacle, the bar ..
Ask Men
3.0
While the eco themed screenplay is sturdy enough and features some clever lines and a few tender moments, it never comes close to reaching the same he ..
Contra Costa Times
2.0
At times its wince inducingly weak, and no amount of lush visuals can disguise that. Nor can they disguise how second hand everything feels.
3.0
The special effects are so good here that you dont even notice them. It is eerie how Cameron has made it look and feel like he is just pointing a came ..
Crunch On This
2.5
nce you delve beneath the groundbreaking effects and amazing visuals, Avatar is pretty standard fare.
3.0
If you ever wondered what a live action Hayao Miyazaki film would look like, Avatar is a damn good approximation.
4.0
Avatar falls short with its story, but it ultimately succeeds with its incredible special effects.
Movie Mantz
4.0
It may not change the world, but itll certainly provide enjoyment to many millions of people all over it.
What Culture
5.0
Of faith.This is a tale of life, and it genuinely gives you the taste of a whole new one.
The National
4.0
Cameron could have let loose with the 3D and extravagant effects.
Clothes Onfilm
1.5
White boy as warrior savior of a threatened indigenous people isnt exactly a novel storyline. (
The Magazine of Fantasy & ..
4.5
The greatest 3D effects ever cant compensate for this Tofu World filmmakers are always shoving at us.
5.0
More Stories Simmba box office collection Day 7: Ranveer Singh starrer crosses the Rs 150 crore mark within a week Swap your regular chai for a cup of ..
Zoom
5.0
In love with the Avatar In Pick of the Flicks this week: Avatar From the music to the muse, this is clearly a James Cameron flick, clearly a masterpie ..
Blogs Smh
1.0
You care about the CG characters. It tugs the heart. It makes you shout. And it is an overwhelming feast of visual artistry unlike anything you have e ..
Mcn Blogs
4.5
Though you wont get anything new narratively, Avatar is a visual feast.
3.0
AVATAR 1.It doesnt take long for you to realize just how different Avatar is from anything youve ever seen.
Leitch Tumblr
4.5
One of the most exhilarating, barmy and eye wateringly gorgeous movies of the decade.
IGN Movies UK
3.8
Worthington and Saldana provide enough wattage to keep the films human center alive and beating, while Cameron wraps their story in an armature of gen ..
1.5
Ive never seen a 3 D feature that made me especially hungry for more . . . until now. ...but for all the visual depth, there is little depth to the ch ..
4.5
Absolutely astounding fantasy extravaganza. I was entirely immersed and immensely amazed. Avatar is a pure cinematic magic.
The MovieMaven
4.5
An astonishing, breathtaking masterpiece. Cameron did it! It will easily surpass Titanics box office. I think Cameron created a few new colors.
4.0
Audiences will find it to be a brilliantly, stunning entertaining fantasy!
Bvon Movies
2.0
Avatar is revolutionary at least in this way: It is the most convincingly realized artificial world ever created from scratch for the screen. Its a mo ..
Amc
3.0
The world of Pandora is so beautiful and immersive (credit Cameron and teams prodigious imagination oh, and the hundreds of millions of budget dollars ..
Towle Road
3.0
A damn good one.Camerons tongue remains healthily planted in his cheek when it comes to imagination.
Edge United States
1.5
We appreciate the films good qualities and there are many of them but we came away troubled by the storys problems. Still, its hard not to like Avatar ..
Scifi Wire
3.0
Its both wildly original and hauntingly familiar, like Dances With Wolves in a galaxy far, far away.
American Profile
4.0
Its 100% genuinely undeniably categorically without a doubt unlike anything youve ever seen before and if you like graphics and special effects and st ..
4.5
goes for it and damn it if it didnt leave me with a lump in my throat for much the film. There is so much passion in this work, its just exhilirating. ..
5.0
Its all nonsense of course, but in the best possible way; pure Hollywood entertainment at its best. Take the misses or take your mates, see it at the ..
4.5
With ground breaking cinematography and an amazing score delivered by James Horner to match, Avatar promises to set the ball rolling for the way films ..
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