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90
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A wildly cinematic futuristic thriller that is determined to overpower the imagination, The Matrix combines traditional science-fiction premises with spanking new visual technology in a way that almost defies description.
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88
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
With its mix of Lewis Carroll and William Gibson; Japanese anime and Chinese chopsocky; mythological allusions, and machine-made illusion, offers a couple of hours of escapist fun.
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80
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
There's a kind of liberating, almost transforming energy in this film; it lights you up and sends you out all giddy with silliness.
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80
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
One big, fat, honking comic book of a sci-fi-martial-arts adventure flick.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A visually dazzling cyberadventure, full of kinetic excitement, but it retreats to formula just when it's getting interesting.
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70
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The New York Times
The martial arts stunts that are its single strongest selling point.
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63
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USA Today Mike Clark
Even if a lot of adults have problems following this picture 100%, look for computer-savvy teen-agers to guarantee this sometimes original but too often derivative time-killer a shelf life.
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58
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The real soullessness here is built into the production, a polished adaptation of Hong Kong-style filmmaking that, with its cast of depressive characters, allows for little Hong Kong-style joy.
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50
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Boston Globe Jay Carr
Snazzy visuals, of which she (Moss) is one, carry The Matrix past its klutzy script.
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25
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San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
It's astonishing that so much money, talent, technical expertise and visual imagination can be put in the service of something so stupid.
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