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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 27 Mar 2019

Dumbo... makes a mishmash of less immediately cherished I.P…

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By Brian Roan (43) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 27 Mar 2019

The problem with Dumbo, beyond the aforementioned bloodletting its inspiration underwent in order to create the cold, dead narrative corpse…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for The Seattle Times (964) on 26 Mar 2019

Burton’s command of this material and his masterful visual sense makes this Dumbo an engaging delight…

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By Ben Travis (84) for Empire (3,446) on 26 Mar 2019

An enchanting blend of Disney twinkle and Tim Burton’s dark whimsy that’s at its best when venturing off the beaten path…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 26 Mar 2019

Burton’s Dumbo, while inevitably lacking much of the magic of the original, has charms and melancholies of its own, starting, naturally,…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Mar 2019

Fortunately, Dumbo is so awesome and so determined and so brave, and the heartwarming aspects of the story are so impactful, we never stop caring…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Mar 2019

It’s a lovely children’s movie, which isn’t to say that every moment of it is splendid and enchanted, because that’s not the case…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 26 Mar 2019

A visually sumptuous effort with wondrous sights, though its character development falls short of those same heights…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 26 Mar 2019

Those flight sequences — first suspenseful, then euphoric — take you back to the classic “Dumbo” as much as they do to classic Burton…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 26 Mar 2019

It’s not hard to enjoy Dumbo…

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By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 26 Mar 2019

If Dumbo 2.0 does have to exist, then you could do far worse than this sweet and occasionally quite nifty revamping…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Mar 2019

As a faithful update of a cherished classic, the new Dumbo will get the job done for restless kids on a rainy Saturday afternoon…

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By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Mar 2019

Farrell’s Kentucky accent here is as merely passable as his Chicago accent in Widows was, and Parker’s precocious interest in physics and…

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By Caroline Siede (75) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 26 Mar 2019

Its characters are thinly written, its antagonist is one-note, and its clumsy third-act action climax is wholly perfunctory…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 26 Mar 2019

Burton’s riff on the elephant that could fly and the circus freaks who love him is about as subversive as a Pottery Barn Kids fall catalog…

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By Jamie Graham (285) for Total Film (3,532) on 26 Mar 2019

There are thrills and feels but this reimagination of the delightful animation doesn’t take flight often enough…

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By Samantha Incorvaia (38) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 26 Mar 2019

As far as acting, DeVito steals the show with characteristic energy a ringleader would be proud of…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Mar 2019

When that visual leaves a more captivating impression than a baby elephant spreading its ears and getting airborne like a glider, something…

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By Phil De Semlyen (265) for Time Out (7,510) on 26 Mar 2019

Even leaving aside the fan-pleasing sight of Burton’s Dark Knight and Penguin sharing the same big top, the Batman parallels are inescapable…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 26 Mar 2019

This live-action re-imagining of Disney’s 1941 animated classic may be the sweetest film Tim Burton has ever made. It’s also the safest…

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