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Metascore
35 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliYou don't just watch Titanic, you experience it.
- 100The New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe New RepublicStanley KauffmannWith the ship, with its totality of people, Cameron is wizardly, creating an entire society threading through the various strata of a world that has been set afloat from the rest of the world. [Jan. 5, 1998]
- 100TNT RoughCutTNT RoughCutA heart-tugging potboiler that is at once poetic, tragic and cold as steel.
- 100New York Daily NewsNew York Daily NewsIt leaves the port of enterprise and arrives on the far shore of art.
- It's a powerfully ersatz experience, but at least it's powerful. There's a lot to like here: At three hours and 14 minutes, the film takes longer to watch than the Titanic took to sink.
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThe first half drags a bit, but the adventure scenes are exciting and the visual effects are as dazzling as Hollywood's most advanced technology can make them. Focusing as much on time and memory as on danger and disaster, it's an epic with a heart.
- 70Film.comJohn HartlFilm.comJohn HartlTechnically, Titanic is a marvel.
- 60Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonThis movie should have blown us out of the water. Instead we catch ourselves occasionally thinking the unpardonable thought: "OK, sink already."
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe last hour of Titanic is huge and staggering, but there's no horror in it. No gravity, either. Entrusted with one of the century's monumental stories, Cameron can present it only as a crying shame. And that's a crying shame.
- 38San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen JohnsonSan Francisco ExaminerG. Allen JohnsonNo amount of excellent period costuming and brilliant set decoration can substitute for a good story and decent acting.