A huge, thrilling three-and-a-quarter-hour experience that unerringly lures viewers into the beauty and heartbreak of its lost world.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Titanic floods you with elemental passion in a way that invites comparison with the original movie spectacles of D.W. Griffith.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
His (Cameron) movie may not be perfect, but visually and viscerally, it pretty well is.Read Full Review »
It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
The true allure of Titanic is its invitation to swoon at a scale of epic moviemaking that is all but obsolete.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
Titanic is a big-budget spectacle and director Cameron brings it off with high-tech bravura, placing us aboard the ship in real time.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
Cameron captures the majesty, the tragedy, the fury and the futility of the event in a way that supersedes his trivial attempts to melodramatize it.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
This movie should have blown us out of the water. Instead we catch ourselves occasionally thinking the unpardonable thought: "OK, sink already."Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
Cameron has never been known for his dialogue, but Titanic carries some stinkers that wouldn't make the final draft of a "Days of Our Lives" script.Read Full Review »