Critic Reviews
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Variety
Lael Lowenstein
Tech elements, including music, lensing, costumes and production design are blazingly impressive and strikingly evocative on all levels.
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| 80 |
Time
A film worthy of being displayed on a screen eight stories high.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The big screen -- with that 3-D depth charge -- captures the strange magic of the "big top" Cirque in visual gulps.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Caroline Allen
The film still shines.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
The troupe deserves every bit of its worldwide renown, and it makes this Imax trip one well worth taking.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
Nicole Campos
Why 3-D?
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| 70 |
The New York Times
It conveys plenty of wonder while mostly avoiding any saccharine preachiness.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
A hokey, more-than-a-little-annoying mystical journey of self-discovery.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Howard Cohen
Too bad Journey of Man, as a whole, is never as consistently compelling as that one visually arresting scene (with Yves Décoste and Marie-Laure Mesnage)
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| 50 |
Village Voice
Cirque du Soleil's campy, crackbrained, and in no way unenjoyable 3-D IMAX pageant Journey of Man might be the oddest movie offering of the year so far.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Unnecessary and silly.
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| 25 |
New York Post
The ugly, witless pair of clowns who flit through the movie are emblematic of everything that is wrong with this dull, monumentally pretentious mess.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
Commits the cardinal sin of all bad IMAX films: It favors visuals over narrative, glitter over substance.
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