A movie for more than one season; it will become a perennial, shared by the generations. It has a haunting, magical quality because it has imagined its world freshly and played true to it,Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
A truly satisfying holiday picture, the kind everyone can enjoy.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Jennifer Frey
Every detail of the beloved children's classic is meticulously reconstructed in the film, with visuals that can only be described as wondrous.Read Full Review »
It's hard not to wish this film were more of a piece and less like loud music at the wrong party.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
Tom Hanks doesn't turn Polar Express into much of a thrill ride. For that you need 3-D goggles.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Visually, taking its cues (mostly) from Van Allsburg's Hopperesque art, The Polar Express is eye-popping. Storywise, however, it can be eyelid-drooping.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Simple and evocative, yet teeming with intriguing visual effects.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The screenplay, by Zemeckis and William Broyles Jr., plumps Van Allsburg's simple fable about the purity of childhood faith in what can't be seen with all sorts of wholly invented characters, complications, and declarations.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Zemeckis and Hanks really seem to think they’re giving us a Christmas movie for the ages and a technology that will change cinema forever. They’re wrong on both counts. The Polar Express is merely a marvelous toy that has somehow become convinced it has a soul.Read Full Review »
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