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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt tells a full story with three acts, it introduces characters we get to know and care about, and it has something it passionately wants to say.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumMaybe this well-loved Luke is who his neighbors want him to be, a good fellow who, with his father, reopens the old movie house in town -- the Majestic -- thus allowing his neighbors to dream in the dark again.
- 50Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrA sweet, visually handsome sermon, but it's too dramatically bland to convert even the converted.
- 50USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigA pale imitation that challenges credulity and tries too hard to win our hearts with schmaltz.
- 30Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonIt's too manufactured and deliberate to be persuasive.
- 25Baltimore SunMichael SragowBaltimore SunMichael SragowThe indisputably gifted Jim Carrey shows the side of him that just wants to be loved - the Riddler on Ritalin, the Mask unmasked. And it turns out to be stultifying.
- 20Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThe Majestic isn't. Rather it's "The Film That Wasn't There," a derivative, self-satisfied fable that couldn't be more treacly and simple-minded if it tried. And it tries, oh, how it tries.
- 20NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenI staggered out of this shameless, interminable movie feeling as if I'd been force-fed a ton of mealy, artificially sweetened baby food.
- 20Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanA mishmash of life-insurance commercials and Ronald Reagan campaign spots, this sexless orgy of self-congratulation is designed to make you feel good about Hollywood, America, and Jim Carrey -- not to mention the nation's motion picture exhibitors, who are praised at one point as the antithesis of Soviet Communism.
- 20VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyA thick slice of bogus inspirational cheese that only makes itself look bad by recycling so many golden movie memories.