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(1 - 50) of 68 OFCS Rating: 74% Fresh Page   12   > Next 4/5 "Se diga lo que se diga, captará audiencias que, como si huyeran de los extraterrestres invasores, abarrotarán las salas y se sumergirán en la tibia oscuridad..."   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez "The moment two youngsters appear more frightening than attacking aliens, you can't help suspecting there'll be additional moviemaking trouble ahead. And you're right."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker A- "This is Spielberg's finest hour since 1998's Saving Private Ryan."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 7/10 "Both epic and intensely personal – a near-impossible balancing act that Spielberg executes brilliantly for the first 100 minutes."   Bloody Disgusting   Brian Juergens C "Worlds makes for one of the strangest and bleakest productions ever to market itself as summertime movie entertainment."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "What comes next is a prolonged look at unthinkable devastation, structured as one family's troubled dynamics."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/5 "Even hostile invasions need a bit more character and plot development."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 5/5 "Spielberg’s list of great movies is too long to catalog here, but rest assured: War of the Worlds now ranks among them."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius D+ "Earth goes to war, but Spielberg merely goes back to his aging bag of tricks."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 3/4 "All summer blockbusters should be as loud and scary -- and deliver -- like this. "   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 3/4 "...Steven Spielberg's shortest film since the early '90s - yet the film still sports the same sort of uneven pace that's been plaguing his movies for years now."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B- "The beauty in this lesser in everything but the budget ($135 million) Spielberg film, is in the spectacle."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3.5/4 "Overlooking a disappointing conclusion, War of the Worlds is a marvelous entertainment of imagination, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and surprising thoughtfulness."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 3/5 "(...) La primera media hora de Guerra de los Mundos es una maravilla de suspenso, tensión, horror y drama..."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B+ "Spielberg's technical skills are second to none, and his childlike love for a good story remains intact in this marvelously entertaining, 90-percent-satisfying blockbuster."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 4/4 "A disturbing account of Earth being thrown into the fan from a master filmmaker ready to take the darkness of our existence to places we may not be ready to confront."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress A "People will nit-pick at the plot and the script... but you can't look at what Spielberg has put together in the first two-thirds of this film and not be humbled and amazed."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov C+ "This anti-Close Encounters is a spectacular technical exercise, but in the final analysis it's as loud and soulless a piece of equipment as the aliens' Tripod Death Stars."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "Delivering much more than a sci-fi extravaganza for the age of terrorism, Spielberg keeps us rooting for a family facing danger from without and distress from within."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat D "The man who gave human dimension to the effects of holocaust in Schindler's List has now prostituted human extermination for entertainment. Bread and circuses, indeed."   Mixed Reviews   Gabriel Shanks 3/4 "War of the Worlds may not stand up well to careful inspection and it may not be the smartest science fiction film brought to the screen, but it is an intense, visceral experience."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/4 "Spielberg has crafted a genuinely traumatic summer event movie, one that gives us images of violence and destruction of often devastating emotional weight"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/4 "so impressive in so many ways that it makes the frustration over its miserable final moments that much harder to bear"   Perihelion Journal   Jay Antani 7/10 "The good parts are really good and the bad parts are really bad."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 3/4 "War of the Worlds takes one of our deepest global fears, the threat of annihilation, and gives us a catharsis when humanity reasserts itself."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp "We watch as neighborhoods and hordes of innocents are decimated, and the way it’s shot — close in, with shaky, handheld cameras — makes you feel every death."   Pajiba   Jeremy C. Fox 8/10 "...everything you’d look for in a summer blockbuster and more!"   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 95/100 "Event movies as brilliantly executed as War of The Worlds come by very, very rarely indeed. Easily one of the finest disaster movies of all time."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi C- "falls way short on ideas, character development, and creative wonderment"   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit 7/10 "...engenders the kind of mixed response you might expect from a somewhat lesser director."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "Spielberg has made nothing more than a large-scale disaster film. Things blow up, people die, and we don’t really care."   Light Views   John Larsen 8/10 "I liked it a lot, aside from the ending, which made me want to burn down the theater."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3.5/4 "No es la gran película de la década, pero sí es un claro ejemplo de entretenimiento del más alto nivel que te mantendrá, literalmente, en el filo de la butaca."   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 3.5/5 "click to read review [Greek]"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 5/5 "An unending heart -pounding; adrenalin pumping; sweaty palms inducing ride . It's what summer movies should be like. "   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 5/5 "It's worth every penny."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3.0/4.0 "... the inventor of the summer blockbuster directing the biggest movie star on the planet... It’s big, it’s loud, and it’s what you expect an “event” film to be."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3.5/5 "The real hero of this film is Steven Spielberg. It’s not the best Spielberg film out there, but there are pieces of it that are truly monumental."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 3.5/4 "There’s not much plot, depth or character development, but it more than makes up for it in relentless intensity and consistency of vision."   Apollo Guide   Kevin N. Laforest B+ "...while his "War's" waging, Spielberg will have you by the throat. "   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/5 "It unfolds in the angst-haunted shadow of the 9/11 terror attacks and teeters on a thin edge of sheer panic -- the carnage is no gleeful game and the devastation is so overwhelming that human defenses crumble like sand."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 5/10 "The film is dark and bleak with little real sense of wonder--the thing that should be Spielberg's forte."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 3/4 "Spielberg and his team are master filmmakers, and it's a pleasure to see them work"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "[A] wonder of contemporary, big-budget Hollywood filmmaking -- it’s its own antithesis at the same time it’s a stunning example of it."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/5 "It doesn't work as a science fiction epic, it doesn't work as a tale of families bonding in the face of tragedy, and it certainly doesn't work as a mingling of the two."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3/4 "My recommendation is tempered by the fact that this started off as a great movie and ended as little more than a piece of pleasant fluff."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "The images are fresh and imaginative and yet perfectly believable, mixing the normal with the inconceivable,"   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow B "A summer spectacular in which human relationships and emotions refuse to be overwhelmed by (admittedly awesome) computer-generated mayhem."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "Para não ofender a sensibilidade dos espectadores (ou a própria), Spielberg acovarda-se diante de cenas que exigiriam crueldade absoluta."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3.5/5 "Rarely has the term 'Hollywood ending' been quite as appropriate, and seldom has a denouement of that nature come so close to tainting all that came before."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar  (1 - 50) of 68 OFCS Rating: 74% Fresh Page   12   > Next