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Goodbye Solo
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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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80
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79
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77
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77
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75
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74
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74
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74
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74
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74
Lemon Tree
71
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71
Jerichow
70
Shall We Kiss?
70
Tony Manero
70
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69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
69
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Girlfriend Experience, The
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Adoration
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Moon
65
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65
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64
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64
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63
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63
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54
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52
Quiet Chaos
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Alien Trespass
45
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
42
Tennessee
40
Limits of Control, The
40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
35
New York
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
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16
I Hate Valentine's Day
xx
Call of the Wild
xx
Home
xx
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Planet of the Apes
20th Century Fox Film Corporation
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some sequences of action/violence
Starring
Mark Wahlberg,
Tim Roth,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Michael Clarke Duncan,
Kris Kristofferson,
Estella Warren,
and
Paul Giamatti
Burton's Planet of the Apes begins with the famed original's premise - a pilot finds himself in a world turned upside down after landing on a strange planet - with the celebrated filmmaker's unique personal vision and style breaking new ground in story, design, makeup, and visual effects. (20th Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Sci-fi
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Pierre Boulle (novel)
William Broyles Jr.
Lawrence Konner
Mark Rosenthal
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Tim Burton
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 20, 2001
Video: November 20, 2001
Theatrical: July 27, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
120 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
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
The new Planet of the Apes is not a remake, and it's not a sequel. It is an amazing display of imagination.

88
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
The marvelous Burtonic gothic/nightmare production design -- scenery, weaponry, costumes, etc. constantly pleases the eye without ever distracting you from the plot.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
This century's Planet of the Apes is a rouser, a screaming-banshee fun house.

80
Newsweek
Jeff Giles
Has its flaws, but at its best it’s a fleet, fun action movie -- and certainly one of the cooler blockbusters that Hollywood will cough up this godforsaken summer.

80
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Forget the heavy stuff. This monkey shines.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It has its flaws, and traditionalists are likely to think it falls well short of its inspiration, but it works on its own terms, it fills the screen with Burtonesque excitement and it strikes me as one of this tepid movie summer's better offerings.

75
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
There's one reason to see Tim Burton's flawed, somewhat declawed but often amusing do-over of Planet of the Apes. The apes. What else?

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Stuff yourself with popcorn, let the gray matter rest and enjoy what may be the best two hours of nonsense you'll see this year.

70
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
Perfectly acceptable, deliriously charming...a goofy Bmovie dolled up like a square-jawed A-list blockbuster.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Past the first third, Planet of the Apes is entertaining enough, but it stops far too short of being completely seductive.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Simply put, Burton's film lacks the social and political gravitas of the original, a film that was wholly of its time.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Offers a primal vision of the primate order turned topsy-turvy. It is provocative. It is frightening. It is a mess.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Burton's made a film that's respectful to the original, and respectable in itself, but that's not enough. Ten years from now, it will be the 1968 version that people are still renting.

63
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
If only the director, or his deus, could have delivered us from the inevitable shock ending, which blends Darwin and Einstein with purest P.T. Barnum.
63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
As a story, Burton's Planet of the Apes is more of a comic-book creation than either of his "Batman" movies.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Are there surprises? A couple of big money ones, notably the ludicrous would-be jaw-dropper of a finale.

58
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Good, but, sadly, not good enough. Well-acted, beautifully shot and splendidly costumed, it's superior to the original in its looks, but not as potent or meaningful in its story line.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Planet of the Apes is never quite boring -- the movie is constantly giving you something new to look at -- but it's still a disappointingly dull and underplotted ride.

50
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Overly familiar industrial product, a big-budgeted entertainment defined by its putatively big concept (apes rule), an underwritten script and a few flashes of Burton's visual genius and gently askew worldview.

50
Time
Richard Schickel
Mostly, the new film reminds us that swell production design is no substitute for a fresh, simple and startling idea.
50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
With the exception of a battle scene with apes on all fours charging the humans, the film is monumentally silly.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
This film is pure, empty (if gorgeous) spectacle, and the decision to loose the tongues of the ape planet's humans (they were mute in the original) undermines the contrast that lies at the heart of the story's power.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It's too psychically flat and dramatically inert. Instead of reinvigorating a Hollywood classic, Burton only takes it to camp.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Burton is an imaginative director with a distinctive artistic vision, but his originality is nowhere to be seen in this by-the-numbers retread.

40
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Outside of a hyper-energetic, irresistibly evil portrayal by Tim Roth as General Thade, the baddest ape in town, the sad truth about Planet of the Apes is that, disappointingly, it's just not very much fun to watch.

40
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
When Mr. Burton's "Planet" fixes on being entertaining...it succeeds. But the picture states its social points so bluntly that it becomes slow-witted and condescending; it treats the audience as pets.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The longer I take to review this movie, the more the absurdities loom. So let me finish before I think about the story's stupidly plotted structure or recall how tiring it was to watch apes perpetually pushing humans to the ground or sending them pirouetting into the air.

40
New York Magazine
John Simon
Devoured by its own mechanical ostentation, generates no emotional involvement, and has a smart-ass, infinitely less powerful ending than the original.

40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Largely listless and witless, this extensive reworking of the 1968 sci-fi favorite simply isn't very exciting or imaginative; most surprisingly, given the material, it's also Burton's most conventional and literal-minded film, the one most lacking in his trademark poetic weirdness and bracing flights of fancy.

40
Slate
David Edelstein
Planet of the Apes has been designed and photographed (by Phillipe Rousselot) with real artistry, but in all the ways that matter it's hack work.

40
Mr. Showbiz
Larry Terenzi
The most disappointing aspect of Planet of the Apes is that, despite its presentation, the film is so very ordinary, without urgency or revelation.
30
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
It's a campy, juiced-up ker-splat, busy with clumsy pyrotechnics and never nearing the vicinity of satire.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
As satire it's toothless and at times close to incoherent; its predictable swipes are aimed equally at conservative racists and bleeding-heart liberals.

10
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
My Homo sapiens brain was boggled by the movie's clumsiness, while my heart was chilled by the chance that otherwise mature members of my species might mistake this disjointed botch for summer entertainment.

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