MirrorMask Reviews
Common Sense Media
Dense, dreamlike fantasy isn't for every kid.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Apollo Guide
The story is interesting, in a twisted fairytale sort of way, but the novelty of this dream world does eventually wear off, and we're left checking our watches.
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| Original Score: 72/100
eFilmCritic.com
MirrorMask proves that a movie can be brilliant and awful at the same time.
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| Original Score: 3/5
MTV
This one-of-a-kind fantasy film may be seen as a classic someday, possibly quite soon.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...one of those movies that might be improved immensely by the consumption of certain mood-altering substances.
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| Original Score: B-
Las Vegas Weekly
An impressive sheen on some familiar themes.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Jam! Movies
It is so fresh, so bold and so fantastical on the visual plane that it seems to re-invent the language of dreams and widen the possibilities of fantasy storytelling.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Top CriticLeonidas walks this tightrope quite engagingly, showing us a girl on the cusp of womanhood, torn between two competing needs -- to become an adult, to remain a child, to vilify, to revere.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Shadows on the Wall
This strange, imaginative children's adventure has a fantastic visual sense that looks like nothing you've seen
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| Original Score: 3/5
Too long, and too rich, for its own good, but clearly Gaiman and McKean were bursting with ideas. Those ideas fly all over the place, sometimes landing with a thunk, but more often taking the breath away.
| Original Score: 3/4
Orlando Weekly
Luscious evidence that the look of modern fantasy cinema can amount to more than bald-faced Tim Burton swipes arriving 15 years after the fact.
It's a near-flawless marriage of content and form, a movie that kids, adults and graduate students of computer imagery will all have their own reasons to love.
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| Original Score: 4/4
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Emotionally direct and visually baroque, MirrorMask reminded me of Queen's epic songs, which find over-the-top ways to explore everyday situations.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Charlotte Weekly
An ideal cerebral escape for that advanced learner in your family who's biding time between Eragon and Harry Potter novels.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
FilmJerk.com
Gaiman's vision for the film is cluttered, but commendably ambitious, and he succeeds more than he fails in crafting an adventure/fantasy for thinking audiences.
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| Original Score: B
Sydney Morning Herald
