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Titanic

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 34 critic reviews
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Based on 124 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by: James Cameron
Directed by: James Cameron
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 19, 1997
DVD: August 31, 1999
Running Time: 194 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for disaster related peril and violence, nudity, sensuality and brief language
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, and Gloria Stuart
A fictional romantic tale of a rich girl (Winslet) and a poor bohemian boy (DiCaprio) who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship.
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What The Critics Said
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...
The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
With the ship, with its totality of people, Cameron is wizardly, creating an entire society threading through the various strata of a world that has been set afloat from the rest of the world. [Jan. 5, 1998]
TNT RoughCut Andy Jones
A heart-tugging potboiler that is at once poetic, tragic and cold as steel.
New York Daily News Dave Kehr
It leaves the port of enterprise and arrives on the far shore of art.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Titanic floods you with elemental passion in a way that invites comparison with the original movie spectacles of D.W. Griffith.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
A huge, thrilling three-and-a-quarter-hour experience that unerringly lures viewers into the beauty and heartbreak of its lost world.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
His (Cameron) movie may not be perfect, but visually and viscerally, it pretty well is.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A film that sweeps us away into a world of spectacle, beauty and excitement, a realm of fantasy unimaginable without the movies.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday
The title represents size and power, speed and hubris -- the very things the ship has come to stand for and the things that Cameron has restored to the cinema with grand, generous style.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
It's quite possible that Titanic is one of the greatest romantic epics ever filmed.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Maria Schneider
That the familiar story of the Titanic disaster is told with suspense is not as surprising as Cameron's clear-headed balance of truth and fiction, spectacle and tragedy.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
A spectacular demonstration of what modern technology can contribute to dramatic storytelling.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Will take you by surprise as a romantic, fast-paced, entertaining spectacle that deserves to earn back every penny spent to produce it.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
The true allure of Titanic is its invitation to swoon at a scale of epic moviemaking that is all but obsolete.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Peter Rainer
It's a powerfully ersatz experience, but at least it's powerful. There's a lot to like here: At three hours and 14 minutes, the film takes longer to watch than the Titanic took to sink.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Like the doomed vessel from which it takes its tale, Cameron's film is a behemoth, svelte, streamlined, and not the least bit ponderous.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The first half drags a bit, but the adventure scenes are exciting and the visual effects are as dazzling as Hollywood's most advanced technology can make them. Focusing as much on time and memory as on danger and disaster, it's an epic with a heart.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Titanic is a big-budget spectacle and director Cameron brings it off with high-tech bravura, placing us aboard the ship in real time.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Titanic is awesome even when it's awful -- you can't take your eyes off the extraordinary thing.
Read Full Review >Film.com John Hartl
Technically, Titanic is a marvel.
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Cameron captures the majesty, the tragedy, the fury and the futility of the event in a way that supersedes his trivial attempts to melodramatize it.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
It's both the shortest 3 1/2 hours you'll ever spend at the movies and spectacle of such magnitude that it's hard to imagine feeling you didn't get your time and money's worth.
Read Full Review >Film.com Robert Horton
Like it or hate it, Titanic lives and breathes as a piece of pure cinema.
Washington Post Desson Thomson
This movie should have blown us out of the water. Instead we catch ourselves occasionally thinking the unpardonable thought: "OK, sink already."
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The last hour of Titanic is huge and staggering, but there's no horror in it. No gravity, either. Entrusted with one of the century's monumental stories, Cameron can present it only as a crying shame. And that's a crying shame.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
The would-be emotional centerpiece of his three-hours-plus adventure flick is the most juvenile romantic tale of 1997.
Film.com Peter Brunette
The human interest story that occupies fully two-thirds of this three hour plus epic is so flat and unconvincing that, for once, you find yourself longing for the disaster footage to start.
Slate David Edelstein
Cameron has never been known for his dialogue, but Titanic carries some stinkers that wouldn't make the final draft of a "Days of Our Lives" script.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
Ultimately, Titanic will sail or sink not on its budget but on its merits as drama and spectacle. The regretful verdict here: Dead in the water.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner G. Allen Johnson
No amount of excellent period costuming and brilliant set decoration can substitute for a good story and decent acting.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Cameron manhandles the real story, scavenging it for his own puny narrative purposes. It's a film made with boorish confidence and zero sensitivity, big and dumb and hulking.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 124 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Hannah B gave it a10:
I loooooooove this movie xxx It made my cry at the very end though!!! YAY Titanic Movie!
Bill S gave it a10:
this movie is THE BEST FILM IN THE HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURES. oh and stephen B, feel free to hit me up so i can beat your faggot ass to pieces for disrespecting the best movie of all time. man up or shut the fuck up you faggot nobody.
Scara B gave it an8:
A solid movie, but no doubt one of the most overrated movies of all time. If you have a male friend that loves this film, dig further for evidence of his actual masulinity.
shelby j gave it a10:
The most gratifying movie i have ever seen. it takes your breath away.
T S gave it a0:
Along with Braveheart and Forrest Gump, one of the worst Oscar winners of all time. Pure turgid drivel. A chick flick for the mentally defective.
Katie T gave it a10:
Love this movie. It is so dramatic. The acting in this movie is outstanding.
Lawrence Y. gave it a1:
If you like disaster films, this is the film for you. But if you dont like to see love in a disaster film, just leave this one alone.
