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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Provides a pleasant end-of-year surprise. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A work of wonderfully sinister fantasy. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Exceptionally clever, hilariously gloomy and bitingly subversive. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Call the movie a pleasant near-miss, see it with your expectations lowered and by all means read the books again. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Heinrichs helps take your mind off the slack direction and the letdown of a climax, which ought to make the kiddies hurl Gummi Bears at the screen. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It just kind of spins its wheels. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Wickedly entertaining and a fortunate addition to the holiday season. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: A sick joke of a film that realizes the best children's entertainment doesn't hide from the bleaker side of life, but plunges into the void and respects kids enough to assume they can handle it. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Carrey has proven that when he's on, he's more creative than anyone out there. And he's on as Count Olaf, Snicket's principle villain Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie, like the books, flatters children's innate sense that the world is not a perfect place and that anyone who insists otherwise is trying to sell you something. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: What the movie lacks, alarmingly, is a shriveled black heart, or a big, red tell-tale one pulsing beneath the floorboards. Read more
Hank Sartin, Chicago Reader: Episodic but entertaining. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Against all odds it delights, using a compact script (by Robert Gordon), creative storytelling and the ripe comedic talents of a prodigious cast to transform written word into a near-perfect cinematic entity. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: The movie is crammed with Tim Burton-style desolation, foreboding and technological anachronism. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Olaf is a threat to the children, one who just won't go away; Carrey's biggest threat is that he'll never stop clowning around. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The imaginatively cast, gorgeously designed movie has moments of wry wit and oddball charm. But its lumpish plot reinforces the suspicion that solid storytelling is no longer a Hollywood priority. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Silberling and writer Robert Gordon have made the fatal error of trying to jolly up the novels, which are often funny but never, ever cute. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A welcome holiday treat. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: A Series of Unfortunate Events suffers from one of the most grievous maladies that can strike a children's film, notably a regrettable tendency to fill in all the quiet with noise. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: There's little, very little, at all unfortunate about it. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I think this one is a tune-up for the series, a trial run in which they figure out what works and what needs to be tweaked. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: As it ticks by, laboriously, it leaves you feeling that you should be enjoying it more than you are. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Carrey finds his perfect role in Count Olaf. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Helping mitigate the fear factor is the movie's smart-alecky attitude. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A more apt title might have been: Jim Carrey's Series of Outlandish Impersonations. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A dark charmer. Read more
Derek Adams, Time Out: It's all a bit superficial, but highly entertaining, wickedly funny, and alluring enough to make you want to start reading the books. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Though the movie is a literate adventure story, the series' dark tone is lightened up in the film just enough to make one yearn for the darkly twisted witticisms and pervasive anxiety that made Handler's books uniquely appealing. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: As with the first two Harry Potter entries, A Series of Unfortunate Events ultimately feels like the triumph of literal-mindedness over lyricism. It also has a hollow emotional core. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: I daresay most viewers will enjoy themselves. I already look forward to the next one. Read more
Jennifer Frey, Washington Post: The visuals are dark and ominous without getting totally terrifying -- the characters feel real, but their environment is off-kilter enough to remind you that this world is one of imagination. Read more