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Coraline Review

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5.0

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    80

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  • 100

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    A remarkable feat of imagination, a magical tale with a genuinely sinister edge.

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  • 100

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    This thrilling stop-motion animated adventure is a high point in Selick's career of creating handcrafted wonderlands of beauty blended with deep, disconcerting creepiness.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    Coraline is distinguished, if you can call it that, by a creepiness so deep as to seem perverse, and the film finally succumbs to terminal deficits in dramatic energy, narrative coherence and plain old heart.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

    Coraline is a plucky heroine, and director Selig's imagination is indisputable. But the story falters in parts, and its dark tone could be off-putting for children.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    This is a gloomy film with weird characters doing nasty things. I've heard of eating chocolate-covered insects, but not when they're alive.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Variety Justin Chang

    This eccentric and deliriously inventive fantasy finds stop-motion auteur Henry Selick scaling new heights of ghoulish whimsy, buoyed by a haunting score that works its own macabre magic.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    Coraline lingers in an atmosphere that is creepy, wonderfully strange and full of feeling.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

    This is a marvelous family story, tapping into all sorts of childhood dreams and nightmares involving Mommy, monsters and heroic youngsters. Selick's imaginative sets and puppets are in perfect pitch with Gaiman's fantasy.

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5

Button Up by carx15
As who enjoys serious kid (adult) animation, this one is a winner. Not sure what these peops were on when they produced this wonderful storyline, but it is eerie and mysterious. Again, very entertaining and visually a nice massage.

4

Awesome! by Emm-Lo
I watched it in Theatres and it was amazing. I love it! I didn't expect it to be as eerie as what it was but Oh well. Everyone who went with me thought it was morbid and Bizarre but I thought it as neat! Not a good show for smaller kids. This movie makes you want to look through your house looking for tiny doors! Not creepy till' the middle of the movie and a little of the Beginning!

5

by BabyGorda

5

by zipbow

5

by gemjedi

4

by breanicholas

4

by PirateVanRock

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