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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 16 Nov 2007

Heads roll, arteries gush and spleens spill across the IMAX screen in Beowulf, just as you'd expect in a screen adaptation of the oldest surviving…

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By Arthur Salm (48) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 16 Nov 2007

Director Robert Zemeckis moves things along lickety-split; for such a dark, heavy tale, lit by gray, diffuse far-northern skies and golden…

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By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 16 Nov 2007

Director Robert Zemeckis and his technical wizards have turned an English-class staple into a ripping -- not to mention ripped -- comic-book…

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By Kevin Williamson (186) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 16 Nov 2007

Beowulf is a spellbinder for the senses -- immersive, electrifying, a landmark for techno-fetishist Robert Zemeckis and his throngs of giga-nerd…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 16 Nov 2007

It's more dazzle than disaster, but the technical ambitions of Beowulf work too sporadically to be completely effective, while the screenplay…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 16 Nov 2007

A bloody, silly-sexy action spectacle that shamelessly attempts to justify its excess by basing its violent bombast on the epic poem…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for Contra Costa Times (478) on 16 Nov 2007

It's a full-fledged cinematic assault, as if a black velvet painting of Norse gods had sprung to life and begun heaving spears, arrows and…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 16 Nov 2007

A dazzling, immersive and unique visual experience…

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By Nick Rogers (786) for State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (137) on 16 Nov 2007

The dots of Beowulf's epic exploits are connected in a way that could have, and should have, matched a tone of grand lust on display in John…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 16 Nov 2007

Beowulf may contain all the modern movie magic at Zemeckis' disposal, but it plays like something Cecil B…

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By Todd Gilchrist (762) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 16 Nov 2007

Beowulf is like nothing you've ever seen, but not for the reasons you think…

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By Christopher Tookey (761) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 16 Nov 2007

Savage, yes. But Beowulf is monstrously entertaining…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 16 Nov 2007

Adapted with refreshing irreverence by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, even if students of the Anglo-Saxon text may be taken aback by some of…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for The Deadbolt (73) on 16 Nov 2007

When the final battle kicks in to gear and you shake the cobwebs off of the dialogue scenes that passed before, you won't care that the characters…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 16 Nov 2007

Once you have acclimatised yourself to the animation style, it tells a cracking good story, and the screenplay by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary…

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By Scott A. Mantz (197) for Scott Mantz' Movie Reviews (101) on 16 Nov 2007

Leave it to Robert Zemeckis to turn the 8th Century fable into a commercially accessible 21st Century blockbuster…

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By Eugene Novikov (936) for Film Blather (908) on 16 Nov 2007

This isn't your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother's Beowulf…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 16 Nov 2007

Beowulf brays and boasts, it overwhelms and it soars…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 16 Nov 2007

For all the slash and burn of the action sequences and the 3-D technology with which it is being shown in many theaters, this Beowulf from…

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By Sandie Angulo Chen (751) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 15 Nov 2007

Violent animated adventure is no kiddie movie…

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