Cameron's 'Avatar': Brainy & Beautiful

July 20, 2010 read full article

The narrative would be ho-hum without the spectacle. But what spectacle! Avatar is dizzying, enveloping, vertiginous ... I ran out of adjectives an hour into its 161 minutes.

December 21, 2009 read full article

I had the feeling coming out of this movie that I haven't felt since maybe I was eleven years old in 1977 and I saw Star Wars for the first time.

December 21, 2009 read full article

It's a remote-control movie experience, a high-tech "wish you were here" scribbled on a very expensive postcard.

December 18, 2009 read full article

The most-hyped movie of the year just about merits it.

December 18, 2009 read full article

Big money, big risk, pretty big reward. That's been his consistent pattern, and it's high time to give credit where credit is overdue: James Cameron delivers.

December 18, 2009 read full article

I have seen the future of movies, and it is Avatar.

December 18, 2009 read full article

Cameron and his legion of CGI experts and skilled craftspeople have delivered a lovely, misty, dangerous world.

December 18, 2009 read full article

'Avatar' is a very big, very enjoyable, summertime action film that, much as it covers several actors in computer-generated imagery, drapes new flesh over very old bones.

December 18, 2009 read full article

It is cool. But all this "change the way you look at films" hype is just that. While Avatar is impressively seamless, you're never fooled. This doesn't look like a documentary film; it looks like a video game.

December 18, 2009 read full article

Pandora is still a good place to park yourself for three hours.

December 18, 2009 read full article

Mr. Cameron's singular vision has upped the ante for filmed entertainment, and given us a travelogue unlike any other. I wouldn't want to live on Pandora, mainly because of the bad air, but I'm glad to have paid it a visit.

December 18, 2009 read full article

This is the most technically amazing motion picture to have arrived on screens in many years.

December 17, 2009 read full article

An ambitious, fully immersive cinematic experience.

December 17, 2009 read full article

James Cameron has turned one man's dream of the movies into a trippy joy ride about the end of life -- our moviegoing life included -- as we know it.

December 17, 2009 read full article

Whatever way you choose to look at it, Avatar's shock and awe demand to be seen. You've never experienced anything like it, and neither has anyone else.

December 17, 2009 read full article

Watching it, I began to understand how people in 1933 must have felt when they saw King Kong.

December 17, 2009 read full article

Twelve years after his triumph with Titanic, Cameron has successfully made a digital blockbuster feel as warm as an old-time movie, where blood temperature was more important than pixels.

December 17, 2009 read full article

The film vibrates with the excitement of discovery and awe. Not just for the sight of six-legged rhinos and butterfly-hued dragons, but for the thousands of hours of work that unite here in a creative epiphany.

December 17, 2009 read full article

You, dear reader, want to know: Is it or is it not stupendously friggin' rad? And the answer is yes. For most of the first hour, a good portion of the second, and even many of the 40 minutes left after that, Avatar is stupendously friggin' rad.

December 17, 2009 read full article