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By Josh Lasser (114) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 01 Oct 2015

Even though everyone watching knows exactly what the film is building towards, the climactic sequence delivers everything you want and more…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 01 Oct 2015

The director Robert Zemeckis is one of the true visionary figures of recent American cinema…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 01 Oct 2015

Channeling the spirit of its subject, The Walk assumes a clownish attitude until, during its finale, it switches gears to become a solemn,…

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By Alex Pappademas (22) for Grantland (318) on 01 Oct 2015

For at least the duration of the 25-minute wire sequence, The Walk is a breathless, exhilarating moviegoing experience. It's just not much of a movie…

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By Alex Leadbeater (83) for What Culture (594) on 01 Oct 2015

The Walk is a poor movie as it is, but when you put it alongside Man On Wire it becomes something else. It becomes pointless…

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By Jim Judy (1,199) for Screen It! (1,437) on 01 Oct 2015

The third act is something to see and concludes with a heartfelt emotional wallop. (Full Content Review - Sex, Violence, Profanity, etc…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 01 Oct 2015

As it comes together, the film becomes just as much a tribute to those massive Towers as it is to Petit…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for WOW247 (106) on 30 Sep 2015

An utterly breathtaking experience, so much so that if you're even remotely scared of heights, you may want to think twice about seeing the film…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 30 Sep 2015

Then we're finally aloft, with the man on his wire, and Mr. Zemeckis and his colleagues lift their groundbound production into the realm of high art…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 30 Sep 2015

This delivers some frighteningly vertiginous moments once Petit steps off the South Tower into empty space, and Zemeckis wisely milks the climactic…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 30 Sep 2015

The problem — not fatal — with The Walk is that the narrative wire droops between the movie’s opening and final sequences…

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By Olly Richards (291) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 30 Sep 2015

It’s extremely antic for the most part, covering a lack of real story with a lot of distracting quirk…

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By Kurt Loder (858) for Reason Online (497) on 30 Sep 2015

The movie is a marvel of complex and carefully controlled 3D digital imagery (do see it in IMAX), and as long as Petit is up on that wire,…

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By Josh Terry (603) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 30 Sep 2015

As a cinematic experience, The Walk is one of those films that justifies the larger-than-life Hollywood experience and reminds us how much…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 30 Sep 2015

The Walk is much less than the sum of its parts, except when the parts are so good you can’t ignore them…

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By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 30 Sep 2015

The Walk exists only to get to the Twin Towers sequence…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 30 Sep 2015

The film seems more than a little insecure, unwilling to let you feel its awesomeness -- it shouldn't have been -- and resorting to telling…

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By Rick Bentley (466) for Fresno Bee (603) on 30 Sep 2015

It does redeem itself in the final 40 minutes, but it still may be best to wait and see the movie at home where you can turn down Gordon-Levitt's…

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By Mathew Dekinder (396) for Suburban Journals of St. Louis (395) on 30 Sep 2015

The Walk' is an incredible, joyous movie that absolutely, positively must be seen in a theater…

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By Tom Russo (407) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 30 Sep 2015

A narrative feature can do what the documentary couldn’t: re-create the tightrope act in full, glorious motion, rather than editing together…

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