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100
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
A hugely entertaining blend of music, fun and eye-popping thrills, though it doesn't lack for heart.
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100
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New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Pure, eye-popping pleasure.
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91
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Has the resonance to stand not just as a terrific cartoon but as an emotionally pungent movie.
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90
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
This is the Mickey Mouse factory at its finest, with inventive animation, stirring music and a pride of inspired, almost-human animals.
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90
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Film Threat
A timeless classic, full of excitement, humor, witty asides and memorable characters.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Basically what we have here is a drama, with comedy occasionally lifting the mood. The result is a surprising seriousness; this isn't the mindless romp with cute animals.
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88
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
There are moments of fun and humor, to be sure, but the undercurrent is of a far more serious, "adult" nature. The Lion King is primarily about guilt and redemption.
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75
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
For all the undeniable merits, it somehow feels manufactured, and thus, to a degree, calculated - the product not of a collective imagination taking esthetic chances, but of an imaginative collective putting the rivets into a well-wrought plan that can't go awry.
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63
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Slant Magazine
Although far from the worst offender in Disney's canon, The Lion King is nevertheless host to many of the less savory qualities common to the studio's output.
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50
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Washington Post
Shakespearean in tone, epic in scope, it seems more appropriate for grown-ups than for kids. If truth be told, even for adults it is downright strange.
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