Avatar (2009)

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Cameron's 'Avatar': Brainy & Beautiful

July 20, 2010 Full Review | Comments (31)

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

The narrative would be ho-hum without the spectacle. But what spectacle! Avatar is dizzying, enveloping, vertiginous ... I ran out of adjectives an hour into its 161 minutes.

December 21, 2009 Full Review | Comments (18)

David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

I had the feeling coming out of this movie that I haven't felt since maybe I was eleven years old in 1977 and I saw Star Wars for the first time.

December 21, 2009 Full Review | Comments (59)

A.O. Scott

At the Movies

Top Critic

It's a remote-control movie experience, a high-tech "wish you were here" scribbled on a very expensive postcard.

December 18, 2009 Full Review | Comments (192)

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

The most-hyped movie of the year just about merits it.

December 18, 2009 Full Review | Comments (7)

Amy Biancolli

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

Big money, big risk, pretty big reward. That's been his consistent pattern, and it's high time to give credit where credit is overdue: James Cameron delivers.

December 18, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

This sci-fi epic would be a masterpiece if judged solely on its technical merits.

February 3, 2013 Full Review

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

Cameron is flexing his creative muscles, but the film never overcomes the nagging feeling that he's also simply going through the motions.

February 3, 2013 Full Review

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

Piercing the hype, Avatar may not be a "game changer", but I'll be damned if the game didn't just get a hell of a lot more interesting from here on in.

September 29, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

While it wasn't 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 its landscapes.

September 24, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Planet Pandora's plant and animal life is done with a wonder that has been often absent from fiction screens.

January 6, 2012 Full Review

Donald J. Levit

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

It's both wildly original and hauntingly familiar, like Dances With Wolves in a galaxy far, far away.

September 30, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Neil Pond

American Profile

It is far too long and the romance is half-hearted. Still, you'd have to travel very far to feel so fully immersed in another world.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Stella Papamichael

Digital Spy

It's good. It should have been better.

March 11, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

Widgett Walls

Needcoffee.com

It may not change the world, but it'll certainly provide enjoyment to many millions of people all over it.

February 3, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Mike Edwards

What Culture

As a fantasy epic, Avatar is an undeniable victory ... but outside of the narrow confines of immersion he's managed, it's also quite limited.

December 28, 2010 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

The nature scenes are nothing short of magical in this film.

December 7, 2010 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Spiritually moving, visually daring and emotionally stirring, Avatar is classic storytelling at its very best.

December 4, 2010 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

If you shoot for the moon and miss, it's a long way down. Now that Avatar has moved to the home video market, that plummet may have finally begun.

November 23, 2010 Full Review | Comments (4)

Rob Vaux

Sci-Fi Movie Page

"Avatar" looks amazing on Blu-ray. If the plot wasn't so pedestrian, it could have been a great film. Paul Chambers, CNN.

November 20, 2010 Full Review | Comments (42)

Paul Chambers

CNNRadio

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 isn't meant as a slam.

November 17, 2010 Full Review

Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

I did not like Avatar and I have no interest in any bonus features that prolong the agony of the 160 film.

November 16, 2010 Full Review | Comments (19)

Beth Accomando

KPBS.org

Avatar: Extended Collector's Edition follows in the wake of James Cameron's other terrific special video editions - and even puts them to shame.

November 14, 2010 Full Review

Christopher Lloyd

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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