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Titanic
Paramount Pictures


7.6

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MPAA 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.

GENRE(S):	Romance
WRITTEN BY:	James Cameron
DIRECTED BY:	James Cameron
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: August 31, 1999 Video: August 31, 1999 Theatrical: December 19, 1997
RUNNING TIME:	194 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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...

100

ReelViews James Berardinelli

You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it.

100

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]

100

TNT RoughCut Andy Jones

A heart-tugging potboiler that is at once poetic, tragic and cold as steel.

100

New York Daily News Dave Kehr

It leaves the port of enterprise and arrives on the far shore of art.

100

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding.

100

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.

100

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.

100

USA Today Mike Clark

His (Cameron) movie may not be perfect, but visually and viscerally, it pretty well is.

100

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.

100

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.

100

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

It's quite possible that Titanic is one of the greatest romantic epics ever filmed.

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.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

One hell of a movie.

Variety Todd McCarthy

A spectacular demonstration of what modern technology can contribute to dramatic storytelling.

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.

Newsweek David Ansen

The true allure of Titanic is its invitation to swoon at a scale of epic moviemaking that is all but obsolete.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 85 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Frederick S. gave it a6:
Stands alone as the single most overrated movie of all time.

Kim s gave it a10:
to all you people who claim its bad, only because you dont like romance or that it wasn't actiony enough for you: dont comment on how good a movie it is if you cant stand apart from personal opinion. its a damn good movie and even if you don't like romance or epic 11 TIME OSCAR WINNERS -may i point out-you have to admit its amazing. i love it and will always love it.

conner s gave it a10:
This is by far the best movie ever made! he acting is amazing and the effects are perfect and the score is lifealtering. you will cry your heart out! the movie will change your life. after seeing it, i was numb and cried every time someone even mentioned titanic....... and i am a 14 year old boy! best movie ever!

Bonnie H. gave it a10:
Best movie ever. No competition will ever be presented to it.

Chris B. gave it a0:
Worst movie ever made. Were it not for Kate Winslet being naked for a couple of minutes, I'd have gouged my eyes out. There probably would have been a class-action lawsuit against James Cameron because his movie caused blindness due to eye-gouging had Kate Winslet not been naked. It's a bullshit romance. Go watch Rambo or something if you want to see a real movie. You know, one where there's no character development and shit gets blown up because it's awesome.

Conor M. gave it a10:
It was the best movie I ever seen. i'm completely obsesed with the RMS Titanic and have everything about the Titanic.I know everything about it and the passengers too

Ciaran G. gave it a10:
One of the greatest movies ever made in my opinion. It has a fantastic storyline that is based on a true story. This film has everything - sex, romance, violence, fantastic stunts etc. Also, the soundtrack along with this film is brilliant, includes the likes of Enya and more... At parts this film is thrilling, sometimes it will have you on the edge of your seat, perhaps you'll enjoy the romance or you'll be upset at some of the more horrific scenes. I would recommend buying this on DVD.

Titanic Paramount Pictures

Titanic
Paramount Pictures