An amazing ride.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 31, 2023

It has a thrill or two, and a chill or three, but it has no poetry, little sense of wonder, no resonant subtext, no art.

| Dec 7, 2022

An economic necessity of securing a PG certificate for what is essentially a horror film has been allowed to intervene in the story-telling, so that the tone is constantly disrupted by an incongruous reassurance.

| Nov 14, 2017

Jurassic Park is the most self-reflexive blockbuster ever made ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2013

A thrill ride worthy of a real-life amusement park.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2013

The effects have barely aged and the joy is timeless. Take a child who's never seen it and watch their imagination expand before your eyes.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 19, 2013

Jurassic Park is an astonishing success in one sense and one sense only: It is the monster of all monster movies, guaranteed to challenge weak bladders, flutter heartbeats and win automatic Oscars for the [tech crew].

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 31, 2013

Jurassic Park shows us a director in transition, and the film captures his transformation in its own kind of cinematic amber.

| Apr 8, 2013

The 3D conversion ruins everything, like the comet that killed the dinosaurs, making Jurassic Park the rare amusement I'd prefer to revisit at home.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 5, 2013

The enthralling man-vs.-nature parable based on the late Michael Crichton's best-selling novel hasn't aged one bit.

| Apr 5, 2013

The 3-D process adds not just dimension but depth - a technological extension of cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus innovations in The Grapes of Wrath and Citizen Kane. The change in perspective creates greater intensity.

| Apr 5, 2013

I'm a fan of this movie. It is thrilling, and the 3-D treatment is a nice enhancement.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2013

This movie doesn't just stand the test of time, it transcends it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 4, 2013

"Jurassic Park" remains an absolute thrill from a Spielberg in top form: Funny, scary, fast-moving and full of just-right details.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 4, 2013

"Jurassic Park" was impressive in 1993. Twenty years later, it's flawless.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 4, 2013

Spielberg has gone on to weightier and more prestigious projects, but this thrill ride is one of his best and a masterpiece of the genre.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 4, 2013

A film that managed to terrify a generation of children one minute, leave them eager to hunt for fossils in their backyard the next.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 3, 2013

That T. rex is worth the wait, but the wait itself is even more memorable.

| Apr 3, 2013

Now a 20-year-old antique slapped with a superfluous 3D transfer, Jurassic Park still has the power to amaze.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 2, 2013

For all the ingenuity of the movie's engineering, Jurassic Park doesn't have the imagination -- or the courage -- to take us any place we haven't been a thousand times before. It's just a creature feature on amphetamines.

| Apr 1, 2013