My favorite line in the movie comes from Kathy Bates’ Molly Brown, who instantly sizes up the tension between Billy Zane’s arrogant Cal and his betrothed Rose...

| Feb 10, 2023

... a guilty-pleasure tear-jerker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2023

Titanic is, in the end, and despite being prohibited to those under 12 years old, a film for children of all ages, for those ready to gasp at a parade of wonders and eager to be swept away.

| Mar 17, 2022

Ultimately, it is Cameron's overweening ambition to overlay a grand journey of the human spirit atop all the thrills, spills and clinches that hobbles his epic, rendering it enjoyable but mediocre.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2022

Strap on your life vests and dive on in: It's wonderful hokum.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 17, 2022

Visually, the movie is undeniably impressive; there's no question where all the money went. As love stories go, this one is solid, but it's a long way short of special.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2022

Cameron has amplified and elaborated, and it has to be said, in circumstances like these, bigness has its own fascination.

| Mar 17, 2022

Winslet is breathtakingly vivid in her emotional transparency. She easily masters the American accent as well as a young upper-class girl's petulant pride.

| Mar 17, 2022

At least we know there won't be a sequel.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2022

Cameron's attention to detail in the smaller, human moments makes the eye-popping visual effects work, and the performances of DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are affecting even when the pair is just running though water.

| Mar 17, 2022

Is Titanic worth your $6 price of admission? Absolutely. It's a spectacular disaster film nested inside a superior drama about great love and great loss.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2022

Interpreting the tragedy as a tale of two people who find love a bit late in the day sounds fine in theory. But what about the many hundreds who simply found death? They remain computerised flotsam and jetsam.

| Mar 16, 2022

The ingenious Cameron and his effects team have creating indelible, realistic images... Where Titanic springs its leaks is in the creating of indelible or realistic people.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2022

Cameron excels at big scenes and muscular action; it's the little things, such as emotional nuance and complicated characters, that he can't manage well.

| Mar 16, 2022

Forget Celine Dion’s infernal heart. This movie just goes on and on.

| Mar 16, 2022

For all the sluggish script and the enormous weight of the special effects, this movie behemoth still has the power to shake us rigid and and touch the soul.

| Feb 6, 2020

[The ending] is a masterpiece of popcorn tragedy: not deep, not sophisticated, barely even credible, but gut-clutching for those of us who have already lost the sensible use of our stomachs, as we would in any worthwhile fairground ride.

| Feb 6, 2020

The movie is a ride, and not without the odd moment of corniness. But it's also about freedom and flight, bondage and stagnation. And most fittingly, as a memorial itself, it's about memory and the act of remembering.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2019

No meager disaster movie, greased by generic formula and goosed by big-bucks technology... Titanic is one big, bruising movie that will appeal on different levels to different audiences.

| Dec 26, 2018

Cameron's aim was to set the most intimate love story possible against one of the century's biggest tragedies, and he very nearly pulls it off. DiCaprio has a captivating presence in a role that might have been written for a young Clark Gable.

| Jan 3, 2018