The Golden Compass
New Line Cinema | Release Date: December 7, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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10
Mixed:
20
Negative:
3
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38
New York PostKyle Smith
Five minutes before The Golden Compass started, I was wondering when it was going to start. Forty minutes into it, I was wondering exactly the same thing. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
The final sad joke is this: Weitz took a wonderful story about the danger of severing a soul from its otherwise empty body and did that very thing to his source. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Me, I just think it blows. What does it matter if you spend millions on a movie - love the talking, battling bears! - if the effects are cheesy, the story runs off on tangents and after watching the movie fail utterly to be the next Lord of the Rings, you just want to go home. Read full review
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