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MirrorMask

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United Kingdom, United States · 2005
Rated PG · 1h 41m
Director Dave McKean
Starring Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, Gina McKee
Genre Fantasy

In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year-old girl named Helena finds herself on a strange journey into the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, Monkeybirds, and dangerous sphinxes. To save her kingdom and get back home, she must find the fabled MirrorMask.

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Film Threat by

What it makes up for with sheer visual magic it lacks in coherent plotline.

50

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

Crafted by hand and computer, Mirrormask is as breathtakingly beautiful to behold as it is tedious to slog through.

91

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

This dazzling reverie of a kids-and-adults movie, an unusual collaboration between lord-of-the-cult multimedia artist Dave McKean and king-of-the-comics Neil Gaiman (The Sandman), has something to astonish everyone.

40

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

The film galumphs along in static panels, prioritizing flash over thought, hyperextending a story that would barely sustain a children's picture book.

50

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Watching MirrorMask, I suspected the filmmakers began with a lot of ideas about how the movie should look, but without a clue about pacing, plotting or destination.

70

The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

Episodic, detached, and lacking in drive, but packed with amazing, hallucinatory dream-imagery that makes real dreams look flat by comparison.

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