87% Titanic (in 3D)

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Cameron's three-hour disaster epic is a triumph of popular art -- of folk art, really.

"Titanic" still amazes as the kind of massive, build-and-destroy production that few filmmakers have the ambition or budget to make.

[Cameron] stages the sinking with a flawless sense of detail, pacing, import and dread.

This version has deepened and enriched a film that was already rich in emotions and remarkable for its depth of detail.

How is Titanic in 3D? The answer is pretty damn dazzling.

Cameron is a genius at instilling narrative dread and designing a hokum-drenched fairy tale of a certain size.

If you can get past the occasional Cameron clunker (Who can forget, "I'm the king of the world!") and Zane's almost amusingly over-the-top turn as Cal, Titanic still manages to make the tragedy seem more vivid than a statistic in a history book.

Forget that we know how it all ends; it's the drama of dealing with eventuality that tells the real story here.

15 years ago, I didn't let Titanic into my heart, now I get it. Movie is fantastic, but utterly fails as a 3D reissue.

While Titanic can't touch Cameron's true classics, The Terminator and Aliens, it's nevertheless better than Avatar, a surface treat that can't match the emotional pull of this alternately tragic, alternately triumphant tale of two star-crossed lovers.

Simply one of 20th century cinema's greatest, old-fashioned love stories, full of still impressive effects (pre 3D) and decent, if theatrical acting ...

Titanic evidences the secret of his longtime success, a talent more impressive even than Cameron's technical prowess: his ability to find stories that tap into greater truths and deeper feelings.

Forget women and children, what about truth and realism first?

Titanic is a movie that has to be seen on the big screen and will enchant a new generation of fans. A must-see 3D experience.

It has itself become, like the shipwreck, a cultural monument, only accreting value, not losing significance, as time goes by.

Cameron hasn't plugged any of the plot holes and some dialogue is still cheesy but now, just as in 1998, we forgive him a multitude of sins.

For all of its flaws, this movie works in the way that classic Hollywood movies do. It delivers.

Its emotional impact lies in the fact it makes even the most blas? of us feel what it must have been like to be on the sinking ship. And the film's underlying themes still have potency.

Only the snobbish or the obtuse could deny its ambition, verve and entertainment firepower.

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