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Coraline (2009)
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Reviews Counted:208
Fresh:184
Rotten:24
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: With its vivid stop-motion animation combined with Neil Gaiman's imaginative story, Coraline is a film that's both visually stunning and wondrously entertaining.
Theatrical Release:Feb 6, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $75,169,351
Synopsis: As covetous children are often warned: "Be careful what you wish for." It’s this very cautionary wisdom that sets the stage for Henry Selick’s CORALINE, an eerily eye-popping stop-motion animation... [More]
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Dawn French
Director: Henry Selick
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Reviews for Coraline
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With Coraline, Henry Selick and his team of stop-motion animators have created a real wonder, one that will entertain children for years to come. Full Review |
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Coraline has enough exhilaration and dread to remind viewers of the first time they read about Gretel pushing the Witch into the oven Full Review |
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3/5 |
This is one of those films that works best if you can forget about the source material. Selick’s film is more like a three-ring circus. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A wonderfully inventive film. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The 3-D animation is just superb in Coraline; the imagination of Neil Gaiman has taken flight with director Henry Selick. Full Review |
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Coraline is a genuinely creepy film that employs 3-D trickery to its best affect. A deliciously entertaining mythological adventure. Full Review |
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The visual invention is staggering, ranging from fabulous fantasy to eerie scary Full Review |
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A whimsical fantasy created in stop animation and set in alternate universes, Coraline is a visual treat certain to whisk every age into a magical wonderland. Full Review |
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A whimsical fantasy created in stop animation and set in alternate universes, Coraline is a visual treat certain to whisk every age into a magical wonderland. Full Review |
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5/5 |
It takes an extraordinary mind to create a truly original, truly new, truly beautiful fable, Coraline is one such creation. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Walks the thin line between scary and downright entertaining... Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
A wonderfully weird film, a modern-day Alice in Wonderland that marries technology and good old-fashioned storytelling. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Coraline is near perfect family entertainment - if your family can handle some pretty ghoulish creatures. Full Review |
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At times it was trying too hard to be WHIMSICAL %u2122 and missing the point that whimsy is best taken unselfconsciously. By all means see it if you can also endure the tedious splendor that is Nightmare Before Christmas. They are both stunning to look Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
If you're going to make a movie that doesn't quite add up to the sum of its parts, you might as well make sure those parts are beautifully formed. Full Review |
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5/5 |
The film combines stunning visuals — there are scenes of incredible beauty — with good old-fashioned storytelling that is funny, inventive and at times scary. Destined to be a classic. Full Review |
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The movie is beautifully crafted, but like the same director's other stop-motion feature, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, it will mystify and in some cases terrify younger children. Full Review |
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It's easy to admire the film's psychedelic surrealism and its marvellous design, but it's not a great deal of fun. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Here the film goes very dark but kids will lap it up, scares and all. Full Review |
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8/10 |
Here's my recommendation, don't let this be your kid's first scary movie, especially in the 3D, which is the only way to see this beautiful, hypnotic film. Full Review |
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