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Toy Story 3
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92 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 39 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 39 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 39
  3. Negative: 0 out of 39
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    100
    Toy Story 3 is a better film than "Wall-E" and "Up" in that it succeeds completely in conventional terms. For 103 minutes, it never takes audience interest for granted. It has action, horror and vivid characters, and it always keeps moving forward.
  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    100
    This installment, the best of the three, is everything a movie should be: hilarious, touching, exciting and clever.
  3. New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Reviewed by: Mike Scott
    100
    Positively soars.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    100
    While the vocal performances of Hanks, Allen and company make up a perfect ensemble, and its visual leaps astound, TS3's real power sneaks up on you.
  5. Empire
    Reviewed by: Dan Jolin
    100
    A kids' movie for grown-ups. A grown-up movie for kids. Exactly what you'd expect -- and hope for -- from the latest, and we're guessing final, Woody and Buzz adventure.
  6. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: Pete Hammond
    100
    What MORE could audiences want from a movie than this hilarious, heartwarming entertainment for all ages?
  7. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    100
    Toy Story 3 is a salute to the magic of making believe.
  8. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: M. E. Russell
    100
    In the year's least surprising news, Toy Story 3 continues Pixar's near-perfect streak.
  9. Tampa Bay Times
    Reviewed by: Steve Persall
    100
    Toy Story 3 isn't merely the best movie of the summer -- even with summer just kicking in -- but an immediate candidate for best of the year.
  10. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    100
    A bona fide summer delight loaded with action, humor, nostalgia, a veritable blizzard of pop-culture references and general good vibes.
  11. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    100
    For grown-ups, the film will touch something deeper: the heartfelt wish that childhood memories will never fade.
  12. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    100
    As sweet, as touching, as humane a movie as you are likely to see this summer.
  13. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    100
    An instant classic.
  14. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Joe Morgenstern
    100
    The third film of the trilogy turns out to be gorgeously joyous and deeply felt.
  15. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Tasha Robinson
    100
    The film never lets banter, visual gags, or the usual manic kid-flick running about interfere with its more delicately handled thoughts on loyalty, longing, broken relationships, and generational continuity. It honestly earns its emotion, moment by painstakingly executed moment.
  16. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    100
    Toy Story 3, has more emotional power than either of its predecessors. Come to think of it, it also has more emotional power than most of the live-action movies out there.
  17. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    90
    Woody, Buzz and playmates make a thoroughly engaging, emotionally satisfying return.
  18. Movieline
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    90
    A sequel made with care and integrity, Toy Story 3 is just moving enough: It winds its way gently toward its big themes instead of grabbing desperately at them, and because its plot is so beautifully worked out, getting there is almost all of the fun.
  19. Arizona Republic
    Reviewed by: Bill Goodykoontz
    90
    Toy Story 3 is very much a worthy entry in the series, a movie well worth making (and seeing). It continues the legacy. It just doesn't expand upon it.
  20. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    90
    This film becomes the kind of love note to movies we want and need.
  21. Slate
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    90
    A near-perfect piece of popular entertainment, a children's classic.
  22. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    89
    I laughed more (sincerely, full-throatedly) at Toy Story 3's smart comedy than at any other film of the still-young summer movie slate.
  23. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    88
    A joy to behold.
  24. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    88
    A worthy and delirious final chapter to this hallowed animation franchise.
  25. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    88
    May not be a masterpiece, but it still had me in tears at the end.
  26. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    88
    It's when Toy Story 3 becomes a jailbreak movie that it comes into its own.
  27. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    88
    Toy Story 3 enhances the legacy of its brand while providing exceptional entertainment value for viewers of all ages, especially for those who favor the brighter, livelier 2-D iteration over the 3-D gimmick.
  28. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Kristin Hunt
    88
    The credits may be silly, but the last scene is a definite tear-jerker.
  29. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Roger Moore
    88
    Dazzling, scary and sentimental.
  30. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Joe Williams
    88
    It's a well-earned curtain call for some of the most beloved characters in one of the best-sustained feats of recent cinema.
  31. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Joshua Rothkopf
    80
    Clearly, Pixar's genius for adventurous storytelling continues unabated.
  32. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Eric Hynes
    80
    TS3, like its predecessors, is a clever, engrossing adventure.
  33. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    This is a jolly, slapstick comedy, lacking the almost eerie humanity that infused the earlier "Toy Story" sagas, and happier with action and jokes than with characters and emotions.
  34. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    75
    Though uneven and less witty than the first two, Toy Story 3 delivers quite enough in two dimensions.
  35. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    75
    Although Toy Story 3 plays with themes of aging and obsolescence, it's really a straight-ahead action pic, with the toys planning, and attempting, their escape and rescue missions. (Hey, it's The A-Team!)
  36. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    75
    Lasseter and his team plunge the audience into a collective case of empty- nest syndrome, with a dash of mortal terror thrown in for grins. And again, they make it work.
  37. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    75
    Eventually, Toy Story 3 finds its way back to that theme of the power of childhood play. There are a few worrisome moments en route, though, when not only the characters but the filmmakers seem to have lost their way.
  38. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    75
    It's the first Pixar effort that feels less like a creative outpouring and more like an obligation met to satisfy a distribution schedule.
  39. Variety
    Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    70
    This tertiary adventure delivers welcome yet nonessential fun, landing well after its creators have grown up and succeeded toying with more sophisticated stories.
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9.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 777 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 230 out of 239
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 239
  3. Negative: 4 out of 239
  1. BobH
    10
    This movie is a thing to behold. Don't be turned away from Toy Story 3 because a "3" is tacked on the end. This isn't just a movie about toys, it's a movie about genuine human emotions. Its funny, clever, sad, and enlightening. For an animated movie to have all of these characteristics and to surpass most movies I've seen lately is incredible. And tto add to that, the animation is impeccable, the story is great, and the characters are lovable (old and new). A great way to end a great movie series.… Full Review »
  2. grandpajoe6191
    9
    15 years has past, and my faith in Pixar did not break; "Toy Story 3" shakes the cinema as a groundbreaking masterpiece, a masterpiece pertaining the pure love and joy we rarely see in any kind of movies.… Full Review »
  3. SunnyC
    10
    Pixar has managed to take perfection and bottle it within 2 hours of the most riveting storytelling I've ever seen.
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