Titanic (1997) Critic Reviews

Titanic is a big-budget spectacle and director Cameron brings it off with high-tech bravura, placing us aboard the ship in real time.Read the full review

It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding.Read the full review

Titanic floods you with elemental passion in a way that invites comparison with the original movie spectacles of D.W. Griffith.Read the full review

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.Read the full review

You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it.Read the full review

The last hour of Titanic is huge and staggering, but there's no horror in it. No gravity, either. Entrusted with one of the century's monumental stories, Cameron can present it only as a crying shame. And that's a crying shame.Read the full review

Cameron has never been known for his dialogue, but Titanic carries some stinkers that wouldn't make the final draft of a "Days of Our Lives" script.Read the full review

A huge, thrilling three-and-a-quarter-hour experience that unerringly lures viewers into the beauty and heartbreak of its lost world.Read the full review

That the familiar story of the Titanic disaster is told with suspense is not as surprising as Cameron's clear-headed balance of truth and fiction, spectacle and tragedy.Read the full review