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Movie critics combined give MirrorMask (2005) a score of 2.6618 out of 4
based on (166) reviews
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Excellent
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(97)
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MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.49 out of 4 stars for BBC FilmsBBC Films
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MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.49 out of 4 stars for Film Freak CentralFilm Freak Central
Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean are responsible, between the two of them, for one of the seminal works of fiction from the 1990s: a run of comics called "The Sandman" (the success of which moved the World Fantasy Awards to forbid the comic medium from again ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Film Freak Central
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.47 out of 4 stars for Reel.com (Tim Knight)Reel.com (Tim Knight)
...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Reel.com (Tim Knight)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.47 out of 4 stars for Film Journal InternationalFilm Journal International
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MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.42 out of 4 stars for Stumblebum Studios (Celeste Hollister)Stumblebum Studios (Celeste Hollister)
...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Stumblebum Studios (Celeste Hollister)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Empire Magazine (--)Empire Magazine (--)
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MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for iofilm.co.uk (Elf)iofilm.co.uk (Elf)
Reminiscent of a whole raft of artistic styles - from the Impressionists to Dali and Picasso - McKean's vision has a truly dreamlike quality. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at iofilm.co.uk (Elf)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Boxoffice Magazine (Francesca Dinglasan)Boxoffice Magazine (Francesca Dinglasan)
Mirrormask is above all else a feast for the eyes. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Boxoffice Magazine (Francesca Dinglasan)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Times (Kevin Crust)Los Angeles Times (Kevin Crust)
There is something oddly intoxicating about Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman's coming-of-age fantasy. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kevin Crust)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Like with any magic show, the delight is in the illusion--not the story. It is, however, a showcase that defines visual creativity. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Allison Benedikt)Chicago Tribune (Allison Benedikt)
...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Chicago Tribune (Allison Benedikt)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)
An impressive sheen on some familiar themes. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
A 30-minute idea wrapped in a 100-minute movie. It's a jewel box filled with cubic zirconia. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Chris Barsanti)filmcritic.com (Chris Barsanti)
this admittedly stupendous-looking film deserves quite a lot of credit for trying, even if the end result never quite makes it ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at filmcritic.com (Chris Barsanti)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Empire (Helen O'Hara)Empire (Helen O'Hara)
A truly unique fantasy, McKean's screen debut is tangled but promising. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Empire (Helen O'Hara)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Monsters and Critics (Ron Wilkinson)Monsters and Critics (Ron Wilkinson)
Some very creative comic book artistry morphs into a film but fails to find significant connection with the sought after unconscious. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Monsters and Critics (Ron Wilkinson)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.40 out of 4 stars for Film Threat (Heidi Martinuzzi)Film Threat (Heidi Martinuzzi)
What it makes up for with sheer visual magic it lacks in coherent plotline. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Film Threat (Heidi Martinuzzi)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.36 out of 4 stars for Slant MagazineSlant Magazine
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MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.32 out of 4 stars for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Paula Nechak)Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Paula Nechak)
What remains is a sumptuous-looking film that sniffs at but ignores deeper Freudian implications. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Paula Nechak)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.16 out of 4 stars for Boxoffice MagazineBoxoffice Magazine
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MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Now Playing Magazine (Brent Simon)Now Playing Magazine (Brent Simon)
Its quaintness probably stands as its most recommending characteristic. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Now Playing Magazine (Brent Simon)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Seattle Times (Jeff Shannon)Seattle Times (Jeff Shannon)
With its mind-numbing excess of digital imagery and lack of compensatory storytelling, MirrorMask suggests that something of Gaiman's is getting lost in translation. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Seattle Times (Jeff Shannon)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Leonidas walks this tightrope quite engagingly, showing us a girl on the cusp of womanhood, torn between two competing needs -- to become an adult, to remain a child, to vilify, to revere. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Newsday (Jan Stuart)Newsday (Jan Stuart)
The fever-dream universe cooked up by McKean is so brimming with off-the-wall imagination, one wishes it weren't all so hard to penetrate. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Newsday (Jan Stuart)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
Like many dreams, you won't remember it when you wake up. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
The story is such a mess, it's no wonder so many characters are running around hiding their faces. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Piet Levy)Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Piet Levy)
None of the exceptionally designed characters have a soul that stirs the senses. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Piet Levy)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
Often feels embalmed by art direction and needless exposition. It also begins with a sock puppet sequence, which more experienced filmmakers would have known is among the best ways to start a movie off on the wrong foot. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
A wonder of imaginative design and a failure of imaginative storytelling; after 101 minutes of this, you feel like a starving man being taunted with a Faberge egg. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Watching MirrorMask, I suspected the filmmakers began with a lot of ideas about how the movie should look, but without a clue about pacing, plotting or destination. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)
...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
Crafted by hand and computer, Mirrormask is as breathtakingly beautiful to behold as it is tedious to slog through. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
Like the recent Japanese import "Steamboy," this is worth seeing for the artwork alone, but it's so furiously overimagined it may leave you feeling dulled. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for ReelViews (James Berardinelli)ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
How best to encapsulate my feelings about MirrorMask? What about: visually active, but emotionally inert? A lot of descriptors are apt: unorthodox, stylistically inventive, a labor of love, and (perhaps most importantly) a failed experiment. The central e ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Tribune (Allison Benedikt)Chicago Tribune (Allison Benedikt)
It's hollow. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Chicago Tribune (Allison Benedikt)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Los Angeles Times (Kevin Crust)Los Angeles Times (Kevin Crust)
The teenager's journey through a nightmarish reverie presents hallucinogenic imagery that simultaneously dulls the senses and hot-wires the imagination, but it never fully engages emotionally. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kevin Crust)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Reel.comReel.com
...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Reel.com
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
"MirrorMask" must have been a labor of love to make. Watching it is also a labor of love. The movie is a triumph of visual invention, but it gets mired in its artistry and finally becomes just a whole lot of great stuff to look at while the plot puts the ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for The New York Times (Stephen Holden)The New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Astonishing and frustrating, the fusion of live action and computer animation created by the Jim Henson Company in MirrorMask is an example of too much lavished on too little. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at The New York Times (Stephen Holden)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 2.00 out of 4 stars for ReelViews (James Berardinelli)ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
The narrative is simplistic and lacking in energy, and the characters are sketched instead of fully formed. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)
The film galumphs along in static panels, prioritizing flash over thought, hyperextending a story that would barely sustain a children's picture book. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for IGN Movies (Shawn Adler)IGN Movies (Shawn Adler)
Plays less like a cohesive film and more like a collection of amazing scenes. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at IGN Movies (Shawn Adler)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for CHUD (Devin Faraci)CHUD (Devin Faraci)
I struggled mightily to stay awake through large stretches of Mirrormask . ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at CHUD (Devin Faraci)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 1.60 out of 4 stars for Variety (Scott Foundas)Variety (Scott Foundas)
Emerges as an overproduced novelty pic that looks and feels more like a company promo reel than an engaging piece of storytelling. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Variety (Scott Foundas)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 1.52 out of 4 stars for Boston Globe (Ty Burr)Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Aggressive visual invention is rarely its own reward, and this movie does nothing to better the odds. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Boston GlobeBoston Globe
...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Boston Globe
MirrorMask (2005) scores a combined 1.50 out of 4 stars for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
The eye is sated, but the mind wanders. ...read the complete MirrorMask movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
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MirrorMask (2005) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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MirrorMask (2005) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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