| SOURCE |
BRIEF
REVIEW |
GRADE |
Ain't
It Cool News
Harry Knowles |
"Lucas
succeeds with the film beyond my wildest dreams." |
A |
BBC
Danny Graydon |
"...focused
and richly dramatic..." |
A |
Chicago
Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...
a technological exercise that lacks juice and delight."
|
C+ |
Chicago
Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...the
most visually spectacular and exciting of all Star Wars
movies to date." |
A- |
filmcritic.com
Christopher Null |
"...still
won't hold a candle to the earlier films." |
B |
Hollywood
Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"...Lucas
still struggles to replicate the spirit of fun and adventure..."
|
C+ |
Los
Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"The
plot is standard, and the dialogue, even for something intended
for young people, is curiously flat." |
C |
New
York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...huge
fun that should stand up to repeated viewing..." |
A- |
New
York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...not
really much of a movie at all..." |
C- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...
it's refreshing to uncover something this high-profile that
fulfils the promise of its name..." |
A- |
Slant
Magazine
Ed Gonzalez |
"...not
much better (than The Phantom Menace)..." |
C+ |
|
Entertainment
Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
|
"Here
we are again: not entertained, not nearly enough, by an installment
of the Star Wars epic that, for the first time, exhibits
symptoms of... nerves."
|
|
Rolling
Stone
Peter Travers |
"The
Force against dullness is finally goosing George Lucas." |
|
Variety
Todd McCarthy |
"George
Lucas has reached deep into the trove of his self-generated
mythological world to produce a grand entertainment that offers
a satisfying balance among the series' epic, narrative, technological
and emotional qualities."
|
|
TIME
Magazine
Richard Corliss |
"An
exhilarating two hours of serious fun"
|
|
Hollywood
Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Other
than McGregor, who continues to cut a dashing figure as the
sagacious Jedi, the movie is plagued by bad acting."
|
|
NEWSWEEK
David
Ansen |
"A
decidedly mixed bag." |
|
Empire
Magazine
Chris Hewitt |
"Funny,
complex and enormous fun."
|
|
BBC
News
Danny Graydon |
"Consistently
thrilling and massively enjoyable, Clones redeems Lucas'
reputation after Menace."
|
|
BOXOFFCE
MAGAZINE
Annlee Ellingson |
"A
vast improvement on the last episode in the Star Wars franchise,
The Phantom Menace."
|
|
Reeling
Reviews
Laura Clifford |
"All...Lucas
appears to be capable of these days is producing enough fireworks
in his last act to elicit hope in his audience that his next
installment will be better"
|
|
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson |
"Lucas
has in fact come closer than anyone could desire to the cheap,
graceless, hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s."
|
|
SPLICEDWIRE
Rob Blackwelder |
"...as
the story congeals you feel the pieces of the Star Wars
saga falling into place in a way that makes your spine tingle
with revelation and excitement."
|
|
GREENWICH
VILLAGE GAZETTE
Eric Lurio |
"It's
worth the price of a ticket. You're going to see the damn thing
anyway, have a clear conscience."
|
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