Critic Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A movie for more than one season; it will become a perennial, shared by the generations. It has a haunting, magical quality because it has imagined its world freshly and played true to it,
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100
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
An enchanting, beautiful and brilliantly imagined film.
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The Hollywood Reporter
A story that soars with breakneck pace but slows in all the tender moments. Visually, this train ride is both majestic and edge-of-your-seat.
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88
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New York Daily News Jack Mathews
It's a sensation - both a milestone in computer-animation and a likely Christmas classic.
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88
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Miami Herald
It's a good, old-fashioned North Pole adventure.
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70
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
It's hard not to wish this film were more of a piece and less like loud music at the wrong party.
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63
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Simple and evocative, yet teeming with intriguing visual effects.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Visually, taking its cues (mostly) from Van Allsburg's Hopperesque art, The Polar Express is eye-popping. Storywise, however, it can be eyelid-drooping.
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58
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The screenplay, by Zemeckis and William Broyles Jr., plumps Van Allsburg's simple fable about the purity of childhood faith in what can't be seen with all sorts of wholly invented characters, complications, and declarations.
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30
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
A train wreck of mind-numbing proportions.
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25
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The result is a failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes wrong.
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