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1974
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Positive Reviews
35
Negative reviews
12
Average Rating
3.7
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5.0
The film embodies Walts creativity, and deepest enriched imaginations.
Rogerebert
4.5
How the puzzle pieces fit in the third act leave a satisfying feeling, alongside some of the most brutal cinema youll see this year.
Indie Wire
1.5
And you thought no one stooped lower than Adam Sandlers brand of lowest common denominator comedy.
Indie Wire
1.5
However, for all the films script flaws, its the morally ambiguous tone thats most troubling.
Indie Wire
4.5
With all this in mind, Synchronicity isnt just some love letter to Blade Runner, its actually pretty damn good in its own right.
Indie Wire
1.5
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Indie Wire
1.5
And the subtext of the tale that it isnt the chill but the thaw that poses the greatest threat to the films stranded band of archeologists isnt explor ..
Indie Wire
1.5
Hes fearless as George, and rightfully commands whatever frame hes in.
Indie Wire
1.5
What else, in a movie that makes fun of movies Its an elaborate, parkour style foot race that seems to cover most of Los Angeles.
Indie Wire
4.5
Ethan already is: Senese doesnt give us an Ethan to recoil from, just a twisted glimpse here, a limping glimpse there, which of course impels the view ..
Indie Wire
1.5
This may seem like a small thing, but its an aspect of filmmaking thats ignored often enough to be noteworthy when its not.
Indie Wire
4.5
You see, one of the many entertaining twists of this tale is that Katherine isnt very nice at all; shes more like the wicked stepchild of Kathy Bates ..
Indie Wire
1.5
Disneys abstractions are no more imaginative than Fischingers or Len Lyes, though he can be wittier than they.
The Guardian
4.5
In Disney animation, theres a density and heft to things, a rounded, final fullness to the potbellies on the dwarves, the singing trees, the tires on ..
2.0
This is a very patchy affair while some of the animated pieces work, others come across as downright insane.
3.8
It serves as an ambitious experimental attempt to popularize classical music.
Sover
5.0
It doesnt do cant do anything it set out to do (i.e. to make classical music more accessible to children, etc.),
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.5
A stunning work that combines classical music with imaginative animation, ranging from the comic to the lyrical to the chilling to the mesmerizing.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
5.0
The artistry is better than usual Disney. I dont know why, but the visuals look even more beautiful than they usually do.
Internet Reviews
4.0
But even if that doesnt do it for you, the film includes unquestionably brilliant sequences.
Mountain X
4.5
If theres one thing the book makes clear, its that theres a lot more to animation than just drawing little animals and cartoon characters and having t ..
4.4
In this regard, Fantasia, in myriad fascinating ways, embodies both the best and worst of Disney.
Q Network
4.5
Critics may deplore Disneys lapses of taste, but he trips, Mickey like, into an art form that immortals from Aeschylus to Richard Wagner have always d ..
Time
4.4
Also a successful mash up: Dmitri Shostakovichs Piano Concerto No.
Groucho Reviews
4.0
the films in the Disney Vault are brilliant pieces of work that need to be seen in the best visual presentation possible
7M Pictures
4.5
Done in magnificent color, in brilliant imagination and in lasting recognition of Disneys enormous talents.
Boxoffice Magazine
5.0
The most ambitious animated feature ever to come out of the Disney studios...
Movies Tv Guide
5.0
The arrangement of music alone is inspiring, but its the seamless combination with traditionally animated mini stories that sets it apart.
5.0
If you dont mind having your imagination stimulated by the stuff of Mr. Disneys fanciful dreams, go to see it.
Ny Times
5.0
Ribboned with flaws both impossibly minor and embarrassingly large, but it surely must count as one of the most visually stunning American movies ever ..
Antagony & Ecstasy
3.0
Overall, it serves as an ambitious experimental attempt to popularize classical music.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
4.5
Fantasia isnt consistently enchanting from start to finish, however.
What So
4.5
The ambitious and uneven eight part marriage of classical music and animation has become among the most popular of Walt Disneys classics.
Film 4
3.0
And yet, unlike most such pop/classical associations, Fantasia doesnt diminish the older material.
Decent Films
4.5
The concept and some of the episodes are tainted with kitsch, but theres no other animated film with its scope and ambition.
Chicago Reader
1.5
Fantasia is a strange hybrid that only represents the creators delusions of grandeur.
El Pais (Spain)
3.8
It is, more or less, a journey through portals and dimensions that can only exist within the parallel universes of our minds. And yet, there it is, on ..
Cinema Phile
4.5
There is a charm in many of the images created by the vivid imaginations of Mr. Disney and his fellow workers which is without equal in previous motio ..
OutWeek
1.5
Specific pictorial innovations of characteristic Walt Disney charm delighted most.
The Nation
3.0
In a world of cookie cutter films how great to see something that transcends entertainment.
rachelsreviews.net
4.0
Of course, just because the film pushes boundaries doesnt make it perfect.
Blu Ray Ign
1.5
What better way to introduce kids to good music than by animating it with charming creatures
San Diego Metropolitan
4.5
Give me the ostriches in ballet shoes and the hippos in tutus ... over the cute fauns and unicorns frolicking in a pastel landscape ... any day.
Movie Talk
4.5
Fantasia (1941), a Disney animated feature length concert film milestone, is an experimental film integrating eight magnificent classical musical
Film Site
4.5
The straight forward animation style doesnt stand out when held up against many of the other numbers.
Movie Views
4.5
The film will be as controversial as is all new art conception. But its entertainment value is Immense and unquestionable.
Daily Telegraph (Australia ..
4.5
The words most used to describe Fantasia, besides the conventional beautiful and wonderful were path breaking and courageous. The phrase courageous be ..
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