A remarkable feat of imagination, a magical tale with a genuinely sinister edge.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
Coraline lingers in an atmosphere that is creepy, wonderfully strange and full of feeling.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
A macabre mystery for children and a cautionary tale for their folks, Coraline is a yarn - twisty, knotty, taut - about a perennially bored girl whose parents are too preoccupied with work to pay her much mind.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Coraline is essentially faithful to the spirit of its source material. But it's also so visually inventive, and so elaborately tactile, that it stands apart as its own creation.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Scott Foundas
Coraline Jones isn't the pluckiest or most ingratiating sprite ever to take center stage in a children's film, and her (mis)adventures aren't especially novel, but Coraline is still a consistent splendor to behold.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
OK, sensitive tykes may be scared shitless. But those who tough it out with this twisted, trippy adventure in impure imagination will only be the better for it.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
"The Corpse Bride" with teeth, Bruno Bettelheim retooled for the multiplex,
a nightmare of daft and creative consequence. I really liked it.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
The film has been crafted with a consideration that the best family movies appeal not only to a young target audience but to the parents who accompany their offspring to theaters.Read Full Review »