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(1 - 49) of 49 OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh Page   1   4/5 "The results are simply astonishing. Selick has created a richly detailed, beautifully realised set of parallel worlds and allows us to become as lost as Coraline herself in and between their exquisite textures."   Little White Lies   Anton Bitel 4.5/5 "In a genre packed with derivative visuals and too hip for homeroom pop culture jibes, Coraline is a welcome return to pure animation splendor."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 3/4 "As fine-looking a 3D stop-motion fantasy that four years of top-flight craftsmanship can produce."   Slant Magazine   Bill Weber B "It's a gorgeous picture to behold, but fails to absorb smoothly, for the surreal nature of the material often overwhelms basic storytelling requirements. Coraline is an easy film to admire, but not always to watch."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 3.5/5 "keeps the welcome resurgence of mildly-intelligent, strangely-topical animated features rolling."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin C+ "Regardless of its esteemed pedigree of writer Neil Gaiman and director/animator Henry Selick ("The Nightmare Before Christmas") this creepy gothic kids' movie doesn't approach anything that the Brother Grimm cooked up on a off day."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 4/5 "A vibrant, imaginative, and, above all, unapologetically dark children's horror fantasy."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 2/4 "...boasts an unapologetically thin storyline that grows increasingly problematic as the movie progresses."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3/4 "A foreboding, whimsical, altogether spectacularly mounted fable."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman A- "There is more imagination and invention on display here than in all the films of January put together."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B "Deeply frightening, telling a story that could bore into your kids' nightmares if you're not careful."   AMCtv.com   Eugene Novikov 3/4 "Walks the thin line between scary and downright entertaining..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. "Coraline has enough exhilaration and dread to remind viewers of the first time they read about Gretel pushing the Witch into the oven"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce A- "Deliciously macabre...an animated film with a true touch of dark poetry."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/5 "Creative visual effects but little emotional vibrancy in the central story."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 4/5 "[It] might be thematically unremarkable, even dishearteningly cynical, but it compensates with an unpredictable visual vocabulary that's anything but."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 3.5/4 "t is as though Gaiman's novel were written with Selick's visual approach in mind, and it's hard to imagine the story being told in anything other than the film's seamless blend of tactile and digital media."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Unfortunately Coraline is one of those movies that one thought one would have liked more . . ."   iAfrica.com   James O'Ehley 4/5 "One of the best, biggest mind-blowing experiences you're likely to have in the theater this year -- and normally I hate dead superlatives like 'mind-blowing,' but it's the only sincere phrase I can think of here."   Redbox   James Rocchi 9/10 "Anytime one of these [stop-motion animated films] turns up, and turns up well, we should show gratitude for the treasure."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 35/100 "[F]or all of its attempted transgressive wonderment and morbid curiosity, Coraline remains firmly grounded in convention."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 2/5 "At times it was trying too hard to be WHIMSICAL %u2122 and missing the point that whimsy is best taken unselfconsciously. By all means see it if you can also endure the tedious splendor that is Nightmare Before Christmas. They are both stunning to look"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3.5/5 "Because Selick remains true to the novel's spirit, the film rises far above being a mere novelty."   Film-Forward.com   Kent Turner 3.5/4.0 "A comfortably creepy yet modernized Grimm fairy tale in the time-honored tradition of "be careful what you wish for.""   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 5/5 "probably the most refreshing thing I've seen in months and easily the first great film of 2009"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr "Coraline is meant for children. But it's neither infantile nor condescending. It has a moral... without being preachy or sanctimonious, bypasses the cynical formula that makes so many animated features so headache-inducing."   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh 7/10 "Somewhere between Gaiman's writing and the rendering on the screen this film loses coherence with too little happening that makes sense."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "[An] elemental tale of childhood fantasies and nightmares... uncomfortabl[y] honesty about the dark side of being a kid..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 4/5 "A mastery of inspiration by writer-director Henry Selick. At the finale of this visual delight, every hired hand and technician also deserve acclaim."   Film Threat   Matthew Sorrento 4/4 "One fantastic entertainment for viewers of any age."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 3.5/4 "Coraline is just dazzling to look at, the kind of film where the frame seems to be bursting with things to discover."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "The creepier it gets, the more mesmerizing the visuals, ravishingly grotesque and dazzlingly inventive."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow A- "So dynamically careens between set pieces of elation and dread that one hardly has time to soak in all the twirling, tumbling visual marvels enveloping the screen."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "Suficientemente fascinante para merecer uma forte e inequívoca recomendação."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 5/5 "A visually stunning family-oriented fantasy that will simultaneously enchant kids and creep out parents."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "Based on the Neil Gaiman book, this is another refreshingly dark kids' movie from Selick that never undermines its creepy story to assure undemanding audience members. And it looks utterly fantastic."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "A considerable achievement of visual dread."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves 3.5/4 "A certain leisurely pace in the first act and a bit of routine mopping up in the third are all that stand between it and genuine masterpiece status."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   Rob Vaux A "This is a classic fantasy tale in the great tradition of the brothers Grimm and it is wonderfully visualized."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten A- "...a marvel of storytelling and technology melded together into a wonderful whole."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 7/10 "Yes, it comes off as an "Alice in Wonderland" copy but it's still fun viewing for the whole family. The 3-D gimmick never gets old and director Selick uses it with style."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson A "This is fairy tale stuff right out of the Brothers Grimm .... Think Dr. Seuss by way of Edward Gorey."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "Coraline mixes the dark and the light in the perfect amounts; the result is all the sweeter for having dared to tread the bitter path of childhood fears and uncertainties."   ESplatter   Steve Biodrowski B+ "With its dark tale of changeling parents and imprisoned souls, Coraline comes closer to the bracing spirit of the traditional European fairy tale than perhaps any other film, animated or otherwise, in recent memory."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 7/10 "Scary and sinister, aimed at children age eight or over...and be sure to view it in 3-D because that's where the creepy magic is hidden."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 10/10 "Head and shoulders above any other family fantasy in recent memory."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3.5/4 "packed to the brim with evil, hunger, and the reasons we used to leap across the dark at the top of the stairs"   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 3/4 Read review   ReelViews   James Berardinelli  (1 - 49) of 49 OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh Page   1