The Wizard of Oz Reviews
Top CriticThe story of course has some lovely and wild ideas, but the picture doesn't know what to do with them, except to be painfully literal and elaborate about everything.
Lavish in sets, adult in humor, it is a Broadway spectacle translated into make-believe.
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.
There is something new in the land of cinema at long last.
| Original Score: 5/5
Common Sense Media
Even decades later, one of the best family films ever made.
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| Original Score: 5/5
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
In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.
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| Original Score: A
The result is quite stunning and a lot less gimmicky than it could have been.
Slant Magazine
A true amalgam of creative forces individually pooling their studio-contract talents like a hive of bees (in tribute to a trio of queens...a quartet if you count George Cukor).
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| Original Score: 3/4
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
Badass Digest
The most magical movie ever is still magic in 3D IMAX.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...a thoroughly American fairy tale that wholly endorses the ethic of consumerism.
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| Original Score: 90/100
Its underlying story penetrates straight to the deepest insecurities of childhood, stirs them and then reassures them.
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| Original Score: 4/4
One of only a handful of films that nearly everyone is familiar with.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
This movie is an ideal family film, superb in every aspect, with outstanding art direction, music, and performances.
| Original Score: 5/5
Arizona Daily Star
It's a movie almost everyone has seen multiple times, and every viewing is a visit home as well as a wild adventure toward territories unknown.
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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
Film Journal International
A timeless family classic finds potent new life in IMAX 3D.
eFilmCritic.com
Every bit THE classic.
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| Original Score: 10/10
"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.
