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Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events

2004

Brad Silberling

Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Kara Hoffman ...

6.1

23,594

Comedy. Fantasy Jim Carrey stars as Count Olaf, a wily villain with clever disguises and outrageous schemes, who is bent on swindling the Baudelaire orphans out of their family fortune. Featuring the unique blend of intelligence, irony and irreverence that readers of all ages have discovered in Lemony Snicket's best-selling books.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Derek Adams Time Out	"It's all a bit superficial, but highly entertaining, wickedly funny, and alluring enough to make you want to start reading the books."	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"A lavishly mounted blockbuster that has little personality of its own except on a purely visual level."	NEU
United States	Carla Meyer SFGATE	"'Lemony Snicket's' has reached the screen with author Snicket's humor and gloom intact. Much credit for this delightfully morose children's film must go to director Brad Silberling's careful orchestration."	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"The film's no masterpiece, but at least you're in the hands of people who know what they're doing."	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is 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 (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A pleasantly watchable entertainment in all the spaces in the story not laid siege to by Mr. Carrey."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The 'Lemony Snicket' series has enormous potential, and I expect the next film will look just as good, and have the same wonderful kids, and be scarier and tell more of a real story (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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