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73 out of 100

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6.3 out of 10

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  • Starring: Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Tom Cruise
  • Summary: A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells's seminal classic, the sci-fi adventure thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it. (Paramount Pictures)
  • Director: Steven Spielberg
  • Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Runtime: 116 min
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 40
  3. Negative: 1 out of 40
  1. New York Magazine
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    100
    Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is huge and scary, moving and funny--another capper to a career that seems like an unending succession of captivations.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    60
    It unfolds in the angst-haunted shadow of the 9'11 terror attacks and teeters on a thin edge of sheer panic.
  3. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    20
    Extravagant in movie terms but stingy in emotional ones, it embodies all of Spielberg's bad impulses and almost none of his good ones: It's a grand display of how well he knows how to work us over, and yet the desperation with which he tries to get to us is repulsive.

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  2. Mixed: 56 out of 536
  3. Negative: 186 out of 536
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