| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Longino |
"Great first half before it goes all 'A.I.' on us." more... |
B |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...unleashes a harrowing story of devastation but pulls back in the end." more... |
B- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...a big, clunky movie containing some sensational sights but lacking the zest and joyous energy we expect from Steven Spielberg." more... |
C |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...takes us on a wild journey through two sides of its supremely popular director: the dark and the light." more... |
B+ |
| E! Online |
"In his Spielbergian way, Spielberg makes a moving family story out of the destruction." more... |
B |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
"...spooky and playfully spectacular..." more... |
A- |
filmcritic.com
Eric Meyerson |
"...the greatest alien invasion movie ever." more... |
A- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"...Steven Spielberg marshals state-of-the-art tools of cinema and computerized imagery to mount eye-popping scenes of destruction, chaos and horror." more... |
A- |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...technically impressive - but seriously flawed and self-referential..." more... |
B- |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...reasonably entertaining..." more... |
B |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...a smooth and somewhat breathless ride." more... |
B |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"It is, simply, the alienation-invasion movie to beat all alien-invasion movies..." more... |
A |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...a genuinely unsettling movie experience that uses the new technology to create an alien invasion of unprecedented scale and realism." more... |
B+ |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"War of the Worlds is even scarier than Tom Cruise's behavior lately." more... |
B |
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