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Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 4 Ratings

  • Starring: Ian McKellen
  • Summary: In between the birth of a guileless boy and his rediscovery in old age of his childlike sense of wonderment, performers demonstrate incredible feats of coordination and physical boldness.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Negative: 2 out of 13
  1. Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    80
    A film worthy of being displayed on a screen eight stories high.
  2. Reviewed by: Lael Lowenstein
    80
    Tech elements, including music, lensing, costumes and production design are blazingly impressive and strikingly evocative on all levels.
  3. 60
    A hokey, more-than-a-little-annoying mystical journey of self-discovery.
  4. Commits the cardinal sin of all bad IMAX films: It favors visuals over narrative, glitter over substance.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4