There’s a beautiful lack of fuss to the way The Wizard of Oz credibly maintains the possibility that Oz is a generative fabrication of Dorothy’s subconscious without losing any of the yellow brick road’s transportive gleam.

| Jan 22, 2025

Garland manifests this fracture in the way she embodies Dorothy’s innocence, her confusion, and her despair… You fully sense that it springs from deeper wounds.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 1, 2024

Arguably the greatest family film ever made, this Judy Garland classic is seemingly simple children’s entertainment.

| Dec 27, 2023

It is a film you should see as an example of the extraordinary mechanical possibilities of the motion picture. But the three ill-at-ease musical comedy men... will make you feel that the wrong cast had wandered onto the set.

| Dec 27, 2023

It’s one of the greatest films of all time for a reason, after all.

| Jul 20, 2023

…The Wizard of Oz can mean anything to anyone, and often does; if nothing else, it’s a accessible, malleable text that means just-about something to just-about everyone, so you might as well just kick back and enjoy…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 25, 2022

The Wizard of Oz is an exquisite cinematographic symphony of delight and wonder for the spectator. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 1, 2022

[The Wizard of Oz] has been cleverly and sometimes brilliantly devised and amusingly acted, which is occasionally witty, frequently imaginative, and only for short periods dull.

| Aug 10, 2022

It would appear that the Metro people have managed the extraordinary and made persons very nearly as amusing as Disney drawings. The Wizard of Oz in a word is all it ought to be and sometimes a bit more.

| Jun 21, 2022

We could go on and on for days, and yet, somehow, The Wizard of Oz would make just about any hyperbole seem puny. This, dear reader, is a perfect movie.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 20, 2022

The Wizard of Oz is a great achievement, viewed either as an American Alice in Wonderland or something strikingly original in musical shows.

| Feb 17, 2022

The film is well worth a visit both for its disclosure of the secret and for its spectacular display.

| Feb 17, 2022

The Wizard of Oz has been filmed with imagination. It has warmth and understanding of child psychology; it has gentle humor and a sturdy philosophical undercurrent. [It is] a rare and distinguished film that should capture the hearts of all ages.

| Oct 14, 2021

All these adventures are interestingly and charmingly depicted and sometimes you wish you were in this dreamland yourself.

| Oct 14, 2021

Breathtakingly lovely sets, lighting, costumes, make-up and musical scores more than fulfill expectations, making the play an even note satisfactory adaptation of the book than was Goodbye Mr. Chips.

| Oct 14, 2021

Caught la the relentless clutch of a Kansas Cyclone, Dorothy's whirlwind excursion into a world peopled by witches, fairies, Winkles, Munchkins and other quaint folk provides swift and exhilarating adventure.

| Oct 14, 2021

If The Wizard of Oz, taken from the American fairy story by Frank Baum, carries to its adult audience the theme of conquest of fear, it could scarcely have been released to the world at a more propitious hour.

| Oct 14, 2021

One cannot say that this is a rival to Disney, but it is as near to fantasy as one can get with human actors... I am under the spell of Oz.

| Oct 14, 2021

Of gossamer weave and rainbow tints is this technicolor excursion into the never-never land that has come to the [screen] -- unreal, scarcely even to be imagined, yet persuading somehow that reality can be left behind without regret.

| Oct 14, 2021

Audiences will fall under the spell of The Wizard of Oz just as does Dorothy, the heroine of this story, when a Kansas tornado blows her into the wonderful land of Oz. Remarkable technical effects and beautiful photography create an air of sheer magic.

| Oct 14, 2021