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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)   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* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "...wickedly entertaining..." more... B+ Boston Globe Ty Burr "...has more zip and inspired filmcraft than the first two Harry Potter films." more... B   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "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." more... B- Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder "...a cinematic achievement of whimsically bleak comedy..." more... A   E! Online "The most unfortunate thing? Jim Carrey." more... B   filmcritic.com Jules Brenner "... compared to other movies with a similar literary pedigree, this fairy tale will leave some of us shaking our heads thinking that the most unfortunate of the events is the shadowy adaptation..." more... B- Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "...demonstrates what happens when you take a clever idea and run it into the ground." more... C- New York Times Manohla Dargis "...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." more... C+ ReelViews James Berardinelli "...candidate for an easy recommendation, regardless of whether you have previous experience with the books or not." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer "...has reached the screen with author Snicket's humor and gloom intact." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "It feels like a total rehash of things you've seen before, and recently." more... C+ USA Today Claudia Puig "...a visually arresting and entertaining romp, but it lacks some of the sardonic humor of the popular children's books on which the movie is based." more... B- * 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...)