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Watchmen (2009)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Boston Globe Ty Burr "The superpowers of the graphic novel are weakened, but Watchmen still packs a wallop." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "The film is rich enough to be seen more than once." more... A   Chicago Tribune Matt Pais "Graphic and novel--and a chore to sit through." more... C   E! Online Luke Y. Thompson "...brings the superhero-noir murder mystery very much to life, which is more than most fans--or anyone--could have hoped for." more... A- Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman "Watchmen isn't boring, but as a fragmented sci-fi doomsday noir, it remains as detached from the viewer as it is from the zeitgeist." more... B- Filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell "Depending on which timeline you follow, Hollywood has spent the better part of the last 20 years trying to adapt Moore and Gibbons' magnum opus from page to screen. It was worth the wait." more... B   Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "Looks like we have the first real flop of 2009. " more... C- Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan "...acceptable but pedestrian, an adaptation that is more a prisoner of its story than the master of it." more... C+ New York Post Kyle Smith "...as fresh and magnificent in sound and vision as 2001 must have seemed in 1968..." more... A   New York Times A.O. Scott "...interminable." more... D   Reelviews James Berardinelli "Aside from Haley, who brings energy to his interpretation of the disturbed Rorschach, none of the principals are memorable." more... B- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...there are worse things than a movie that bites off more than it can chew." more... B- San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "Director Zack Snyder is beginning to look like the best thing to happen to the action movie in this decade." more... A   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "In many ways, it's right on the money." more... B+ USA Today Claudia Puig "In the canon of comic-book movies, it's not as campy bad as the Batman starring George Clooney, but nowhere near the caliber of the Spider-Man movies or The Dark Knight." more... C   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)