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91
Hurt Locker, The
89
Goodbye Solo
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Tulpan
87
Gomorrah
86
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84
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83
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83
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82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
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82
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82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
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70
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69
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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57
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54
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54
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52
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45
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
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38
Gigantic
36
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35
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28
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28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
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16
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xx
Call of the Wild
xx
Home
xx
Offshore
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Finding Nemo
Walt Disney Pictures
FILM:
GAMES:
MPAA RATING: G for General Audiences
Starring
Albert Brooks,
Alexander Gould,
Ellen DeGeneres,
Willem Dafoe,
Brad Garrett,
Allison Janney,
Eric Bana,
and
Vicki Lewis
This visually stunning underwater adventure follows the comedic and eventful journeys of two fish - a father and his son Nemo - who become separated in the Great Barrier Reef. (Disney/Pixar)
| GENRE(S): |
Family/Kids
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Andrew Stanton
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Andrew Stanton
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 4, 2003
Video: November 4, 2003
Theatrical: May 30, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
101 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
You could trawl the seven seas and not net a funnier, more beautiful, and more original work of art and comedy than Finding Nemo.
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This time the dad is the hero of the story, although in most animation it is almost always the mother.
100
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Finding Nemo and its Pixar predecessors tap into the shared gene among the kids and adults that delights in imagination-engaging, eye-tickling and wit-filled storytelling. You connect to these sea creatures as you rarely do with humans in big-screen adventures. The result: a true sunken treasure.
100
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Summer hasn't even started, but you won't likely find a better catch this season than Finding Nemo, a dazzling, computer-animated fish tale with a funny, touching script and wonderful voice performances that make it an unqualified treat for all ages.
100
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
It has what the most heartfelt Disney animated features used to have: rapturous imagery matched with real wit.
100
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
I don't think we're going to see a better--a funnier or more genuinely heartwarming, for that matter--comedy this year.
100
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Pixar's employees, masters of computer-generated animation, capture the look of the ocean like no artists before.
100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The movie's generosity of spirit and artistry swamps its flaws.
100
San Francisco Chronicle
C.W. Nevius
The visuals pop, the fish emote and the ocean comes alive. That's in the first two minutes. After that, they do some really cool stuff.
100
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It's the filmmakers' refusal to sugarcoat their tale's darker subtexts that makes Finding Nemo such a resounding piece of storytelling.
100
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The great joy of watching a Pixar production is how it rewards not only younger viewers but their older companions as well.
100
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
On a purely visual level, Finding Nemo is as gorgeous a film as Disney's ever put out, with astonishing qualities of light, movement, surface and color at the service of the best professional imaginations money can buy.
100
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
An exhilarating fish story in the perfectly cast comic adventure.
90
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
May be a fish tale, but its story of the paradox of love -- knowing when to hold on means knowing when to let go -- is profoundly humane and human.
90
Slate
David Edelstein
Of all the great vocal characterizations...the showstopper is Brooks, who hasn't had a part this good since "Lost in America" (1985). His Marlin is tender, cranky, hysterical, yet somehow lucid.
90
Chicago Reader
Andrew Stanton
Aquatic joyride.
90
Time
Richard Corliss
Nemo, with its ravishing underwater fantasia, manages to trump the design glamour of earlier Pixar films.
90
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The humor bubbling through Finding Nemo is so fresh, sure of itself and devoid of the cutesy, saccharine condescension that drips through so many family comedies that you have to wonder what it is about the Pixar technology that inspires the creators to be so endlessly inventive.
90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
An undersea treasure all the same, and a prodigy of visual energy.
89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Pixar's Finding Nemo may well have the best casting of any animated film of the past 30-odd years.
88
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
This stirring children's movie about separation anxiety is swimming with comic references only adults will catch, thus greatly expanding the potential audience.
88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Leave it to a g-rated cartoon to give the live-action epics a lesson in action, fun and bracing originality.
88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The most gorgeous of all the Pixar films — which include "Toy Story" 1 and 2, "A Bug's Life" and "Monsters, Inc." —Nemo treats family audiences to a sweet, resonant story and breathtaking visuals.
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Ray Conlogue
Though the Disney logo is on this movie, there is -- possibly excepting little Nemo himself -- not a single cloying, sentimental Disneyesque creature in it. There is, instead, wit and flair in concept and writing, the trademark of the Pixar people who drove the project.
88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Pixar is so good at what it does that every other kiddie-entertainment purveyor -- including parent company Disney -- flounders in comparison.
88
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
As always, the voice casting is perfect. Throw in a moral, and some nice touches of technical accuracy (that fish keepers will appreciate), and the movie represents the best family film to-date of 2003.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Dazzles us with computer-generated animation that has never looked quite so boldly exotic or shimmeringly beautiful.
80
Village Voice
Ed Park
Stuffed to the gills with surprises.
80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
What's more impressive, and in the end more important, is the high standard of storytelling that Pixar continues to meet by locating both humor and emotional depth in worlds created out of lines of code.
80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Very clever and imaginative indeed, and its pictures are so gorgeous that they alone could warrant a second viewing.
80
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
The whole thing is absolutely beautiful to look at, even when it has a bad case of the cutes.
80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The best break of all is that Pixar's traditionally untethered imagination can't be kept under wraps forever, and "Nemo" erupts with sea creatures that showcase Stanton and company's gift for character and peerless eye for skewering contemporary culture.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Though not as great as "Toy Story 2" and "Monsters, Inc.," Pixar movies that are the gold standard for family movies, Finding Nemo is visually entrancing.
70
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Finding Nemo is, as it happens, the most dangerously sugared of the Pixar productions to date--how could any father-finding-son saga be otherwise?--but the threat is now one of oversophistication. [9 June 2003, p. 108]
70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It's all beautiful, all right. But before long I began to feel beaten against the rocks of that beauty -- Finding Nemo smacks of looky-what-I-can-do virtuosity, and after the first 10 minutes or so, it's exhausting.
70
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
The colorful and kid-friendly characters are a delight, though very young children might be alarmed by some of the larger creatures, who tend to come into view teeth first.
50
Film Threat
Kevin Carr
After four Pixar features under their belts, it is painfully easy to see the clichés emerging.
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