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Holes

Holes (2003)

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77

Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 132
Fresh: 102 | Rotten: 30

Faithful to its literary source, this is imaginative, intelligent family entertainment.

73

Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 9

Faithful to its literary source, this is imaginative, intelligent family entertainment.

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 188,904

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Movie Info

A boy being punished for a crime he didn't commit learns there's more going on at a juvenile correctional facility than meets the eye in this comedy drama. Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) is a teenager who has been told all his life that the men in the Yelnats family are cursed, thanks to a false promise his great, great grandfather made to a fortune teller. Given his frequent bad luck, and that which follows his father (Henry Winkler), Stanley has no trouble believing this. Stanley's bad luck

Sep 23, 2003

$67.3M

Buena Vista Pictures

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All Critics (146) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (108) | Rotten (30) | DVD (30)

Brims with storytelling flourishes and gently deployed life lessons that even accompanying adults may dig.

April 22, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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[T]here's too much going on, and none of it is executed well enough to recommend.

April 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comments (3)
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It's smart, strange, unpredictable, and defies the formulas that typically define this sort of motion picture.

April 20, 2003 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
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A wonderfully dark fairy tale.

April 18, 2003 Comment
Washington Post
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One can't help but feel thankful that the movie doesn't always go the expected route, that the characters have a little more depth to them than average, and that the complexity, which is the movie's basic weakness, is also its fundamental virtue.

April 18, 2003 Comment
Washington Post
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Crazy as it is, Holes could be the Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory of 2003.

April 18, 2003 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
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Great movie respects its audience's intelligence.

May 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Young viewers and old alike will be given powerful metaphors of servanthood and selflessness, humility and honor, courage and Christ-like kindness.

December 6, 2004 Comment
Looking Closer

O roteiro leve e bem construído, aliado às performances de um elenco carismático, deu origem ao tipo de filme que certamente divertirá toda a família.

October 25, 2004 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Engaging, generous, and well-paced. Holes is inventively plotted and its coincidences and crazy mysticism pull you in the way the best children's fiction does.

July 6, 2004 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Holes

i love this movie, admittedly i didnt think i would becuase i was forced to read the book first in school and then had to watch this movie, lets face it the english department never pick good interesting books little alone movies! However i was surprised by how good it was and funny and just great to watch! Its a

September 10, 2007
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Super Reviewer

HOLES was actually a pretty good movie. That's not at all to say that it was a faithful adaptation of the award-winning children's novel, but I liked it, and for a modern Disney movie (and a Shia LaBeouf movie), it was possible to sit through.

August 18, 2011
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