Life of Pi Reviews
Seven Days
The power of Life of Pi sneaks up on you, rather like the raw sadness of Lee's best-known previous prestige pic, Brokeback Mountain.
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| Original Score: 8/10
The Patriot Ledger
Some of the most gorgeous 3D images this side of 'Avatar.'
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| Original Score: B-
Movie Talk
Everywhere you look there are images of beguiling beauty: a mirror-like sea reflecting golden clouds; a sudden swarm of flying fish; an island bristling with meerkats; and a breaching whale glowing with bioluminescence as it leaps out of the water.
Cinema Sight
The search for religion takes a back seat to the spectacular visual splendor of a boy floating alone on the ocean with a vicious tiger.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Movie Metropolis
"Life of Pi" isn't just a visual effects movie stuck at sea. There's a compelling story here as well.
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| Original Score: 8/10
KWQC-TV (Iowa)
Mystical and endless as the number pi, 'The Life of Pi' works on a number of levels, all of them enchanting.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Takes some time to find its flow. The CGI-tiger is the greatest marvel here-the intensity of its stare alone makes it the truest fiction of all. Religious platitudes remain fairly pat; the final allegory's overstated.
3AW
Ang Lee's extraordinary, lyrical, beautiful, moving, genre-defying Life of Pi can be recommended with the simple, sweeping assurance that it is unlike anything you have ever seen before.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Moviedex
A dazzling digital dreamscape that sets staggering new heights for what can be accomplished with 3D technology.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Projection Booth
Martel's novel could have yielded a greater film in different hands, but Lee's work remains one to be grateful for.
The Standard
(Ang) Lee has gone above and beyond, executing the job with near flawless precision.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Austin Chronicle
When adrift with Pi and the tiger on the open sea, the film is at its most wondrous: a ravishing spectacle that treads judiciously on the infinite line between what's possible and impossible.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Mercury
What better analogy for our place in the universe than a couple of scared creatures stranded on a precarious liferaft in the middle of a vast nothingness?
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
The Popcorn Junkie
Life of Pi is director Ang Lee's artistic expression of faith on film that's close to his very own version of the Sistine Chapel, minus the neck pain.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Autopsy
Bleak facts or magical stories, science or faith, connected or alone, instinct or animals with souls - these are the dynamics explored by every aspect of Life of Pi.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
The Sun Herald
Flawed it may be, but at its core lies an epic journey that shows Lee reborn as a creative force.
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| Original Score: 7/10
ABC Radio Brisbane
I haven't been able to shake the thought-provoking finale. Don't expect to leave this story behind as you exit the theatre. Life Of Pi has something to say.
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| Original Score: A
Observer [UK]
The 227 days at sea are a test of physique, mental adaptation and faith, and Suraj Sharma makes Pi's spiritual journey as convincing as his nautical one.
Birmingham Mail
The screenplay reaches out to people of all religions and faiths and gives you the confidence to make your own mind up about things.
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| Original Score: 4/5
This is London
Lee is a wizard, Life of Pi is an incredible spectacle and the technical effects are brilliant.
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| Original Score: 3/5
