The Wizard of Oz Reviews
Creative Loafing
This family classic long ago left the realm of being mere entertainment to emerge as a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Movie Chambers
The classic MGM musical from 1939 has been lovingly restored and up-converted to 3D.
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| Original Score: A
3AW
The Wizard of Oz is the cinematic equivalent of high-end wine, in that it gets better with age. The difference is that while wine must remain unopened to increase in value, the film positively thrives on it being tasted and shared over and over and over.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Leonard Maltin's Picks
The old-fashioned, old-school wizardry of MGM still looks impressive to me today...
Television Without Pity
Seven decades on, it's still wholly transporting, even without the benefit of the bells and whistles that are part of the CGI age.
Top CriticIn truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.
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| Original Score: A
ComingSoon.net
MGM's fantastic IMAX 3D conversion for the The Wizard of Oz's 75th anniversary underlines rather than obscures most of the film's visual pleasures, reminding us (if we'd managed to forget) just how glorious L. Frank Baum's strange world is.
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| Original Score: 9.5/10
Orange County Register
The greatest American movie fantasy.
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| Original Score: A+
The blend of old-fashioned, classic storytelling with cutting-edge technology is undeniably enthralling.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Kansas City Star
Hey, Dorothy actually has freckles in IMAX. Glinda's floating sphere is mesmerizing. The flying monkeys are creepier than ever. The Lollipop Guild even more disturbing - are these guys having a seizure?
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| Original Score: 4/4
The result is quite stunning and a lot less gimmicky than it could have been.
Film Journal International
A timeless family classic finds potent new life in IMAX 3D.
Badass Digest
The most magical movie ever is still magic in 3D IMAX.
Knowing that it was made without a single computer, and entirely by human ingenuity, makes it all the more worthy of marveling at, 75 years and an added dimension later.
Blu-ray.com
It's a feature built for bigness, with its immersive qualities still potent after all these years. The IMAX 3D treatment is merely a fun exhibition detour.
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| Original Score: A
Any reason to show your children "The Wizard of Oz" on a big screen seems like a good one.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Even swollen to IMAX size, the movie is sharper than you've ever seen it, and the vaudevillian brilliance of the choreography (and Ray Bolger's straw-boned tumbling) is entirely undiminished.
"The Wizard of Oz" celebrates its 75th anniversary looking younger and more vital than ever, simultaneously advertising good old-fashioned storytelling and the most advanced technology available.
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The best thing about 3D glasses is that they keep your kids from seeing your tears of sentimental joy at this gorgeous restoration
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| Original Score: 4/4
It looks fantastic, sounds great, and the 3-D effects (reportedly labored over for 16 months by a thousand technicians) are both subtle and respectfully applied.
