Carrey is just playing Carrey (which is great if you like him and obnoxious if you don't), but the child actors are solid, and the costumes, make-up and art direction are outstanding

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2024

This film is endlessly dark and gloomy for a kids story. But somehow, it works.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2016

Episodic but entertaining.

| Nov 15, 2011

Book's fans will enjoy, but too creepy for some.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 25, 2010

Whilst the direction and script seem off, the rest of the production work is excellent.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

Between Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Lemony Snicket 2004 is a banner year for dark and fun kid's films.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 27, 2009

A dastardly unadulterated delight of a film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2008

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| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2006

We can be grateful that the series has given Carrey one of his better vehicles in recent years, and that Carrey has risen to the occasion so well.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2006

It's all a bit superficial, but highly entertaining, wickedly funny, and alluring enough to make you want to start reading the books.

| Jun 24, 2006

If you sit back, relax and just accept it for what it is -- an enjoyable, escapist Gothic pantomime -- you will go home happy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

...Carrey delivers a broad performance that's more distracting than anything else.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 31, 2005

Successful in kicking off a largely amusing and visually engaging franchise.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A sick joke of a film that realizes the best children's entertainment doesn't hide from the bleaker side of life, but plunges into the void and respects kids enough to assume they can handle it.

| Sep 26, 2005

...recognizes that it's okay to present scariness, gloominess and sadness, as long as you present strong, pure hearted children whose inherent cleverness cuts through it all.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2005

After all, it's not like the filmmakers got everything wrong. They just didn't get the right things right.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Not many children's movies center on recently orphaned children delivered to the home of a homicidal thespian. Then again, not many children's movies are as good as this one.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 2, 2005

Charming and sly right at the beginning.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 10, 2005

A phantasmagoric family film with both bite and heart.

| May 4, 2005

'Inteligente, divertida y arriesgada en su propuesta visual y temtica, es una aventura que no se pueden perder'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2005