The Wizard of Oz
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: August 25, 1939 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
92
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Universal acclaim based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
28
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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60
The New RepublicOtis Ferguson
The story of course has some lovely and wild ideas—men of straw and tin, a cowardly lion, a wizard who isn’t a very good wizard—but the picture doesn’t know what to do with them, except to be painfully literal and elaborate about everything. Read full review
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The New YorkerRussell Maloney
Fantasy is still Walt Disney’s undisputed domain. Nobody else can tell a fairy tale with his clarity of imagination, his simple good taste, or his technical ingenuity. This was forcibly borne in on me as I sat cringing before M-G-M’s Technicolor production of The Wizard of Oz, which displays no trace of imagination, good taste, or ingenuity. Read full review
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