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Movie Overview
Cast
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Kate Winslet
• Billy Zane
Director
• James Cameron
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - For disaster-related peril and violence, nudity, sensuality, and brief language
Titanic (1997)

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OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh
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A+
"The genius of Titanic does not lie in the story itself. It lies in how the story is told."  AboutFilm.com  Carlo Cavagna

4/5
"Whatever it's pigeon-holed as, you're going to love the movie."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

"This disaster-action-adventure-romance flick combines epic aspiration with cartoonish simplicity, with no qualms about going for the popular jugular, jerking tears and cheers with equal obviousness."  Philadelphia City Paper  Cynthia Fuchs

89/100
"Titanic is a great, soft-hearted traditional epic."  Apollo Guide  Dan Jardine

4/4
"Titanic is one of those flawless, spellbinding epics that we all know and love."  David Keyes' Cinema 2000  David Keyes

3/4
"Time skips by quickly, and there are more than a few decent supporting performances to enjoy."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  David N. Butterworth

C
"An unconscionable disaster..."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

5/10
"Rose and Jack are burdened with simplistic characterisation and atrocious dialogue."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Dragan Antulov

3.5/4
"It's something of an ingenuous revision of the standard disaster movie."  Slant Magazine  Eric Henderson

3.5/4
"What Cameron does is essentially give us a history lesson in an empowering, emphatic, entertaining way. This extraordinary flick feels like a big event with a litany of emblematic scope and impressive visual vitality."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Frank Ochieng

" The finale is a special effects dazzler but those scenes pale in comparison to the dramatic and creative ways Cameron exalts the salvific power of love."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

4/4
"You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

4/4
"In his brilliant, monumental film Titanic, one of the most popular and beloved Hollywood movies of the past 50 years, James Cameron revisited that night in all its horror and glory."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

4/4
"It lasts 3 hours, and I wasn't bored for a second."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

7/10
"The drama is cliched, if competently effective, but Cameron's dissolves from the Titanic's rusted hulk to her brand spanking new decks are breathtaking, even poetic."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

high +1 out of -4..+4
"This is a big film with a lot to like as well as a lot to not."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Mark R. Leeper

3.5/4
"The melodramatic love story is the perfect foreground for the sinking of the largest passenger ship in history."  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

9/10
"If you haven't seen it yet, stop reading this instant and run out to the multiplex."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

9/10
"Titanic is an extraordinary filmic achievement, an elegy for the twentieth century at its end."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

4/4
"This absorbing, moving cinematic spectacle not only floats, it soars."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Michael Dequina

4/4
"Titanic is not a perfect film, but it is a great film nonetheless."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

4/5
"The movie raises important questions about choices faced by the characters."  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

5/5
"Quando eu saí do cinema não era apenas um espectador fascinado. Era um sobrevivente do Titanic."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

10/10
"This is a fine example of Hollywood filmmaking. This is a studio film in the best sense of the word."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

A+
"An enormous technical achievement with a wonderfully big heart."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

"This man makes the bluest looking movies around"  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Shane Burridge

"Glub glub glub."  Salon.com  Stephanie Zacharek

C-
"Perhaps the most melancholy thing about Titanic is its celebration of romantic ideals to the exclusion of such self-denying virtues as honor, duty, and heroism."  Decent Films Guide  Steven D. Greydanus

3/4
Read review  Palo Alto Weekly  Jeanne Aufmuth
OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh
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