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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: For the most part, this epic adventure steers a true course through storm and sacrifice, and arrives triumphant. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: A rousing, intense and thoroughly convincing adventure yarn that may have even the most committed landlubber longing for a ship and a star to sail her by. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: It's a ride few movies, if any, have ever been able to offer. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Crowe's dominating presence and rough charms are put to great use here. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Probably the best movie of its kind ever made. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Master and Commander hums with humor, passion and life. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Russell Crowe swaggers marvelously in the seafaring adventure Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Masterful and commanding. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Master and Commander doesn't play fast and loose with the genre, like this summer's Pirates of the Caribbean, and Crowe certainly doesn't mince around like Johnny Depp. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Master and Commander intends to be an intelligent epic, but it's the epic qualities more than the intelligence that hold us. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The special effects and battle scenes are extraordinary. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The movie is like one of those ships in a bottle -- lovely and painstaking, as grand as it is unimportant. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: This apt and sensitive introduction to O'Brian's ripping maritime tales manages to make a period-piece saga feel modern -- capturing something timeless in the characters of all men. Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: Mr. Weir will possibly get his fifth nomination for Oscar gold, but everybody -- from costume designer Wendy Stites to Australians Iva Davies, Richard Tognetti and Christopher Gordon, who composed the classic-pop score -- deserves three cheers. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: The seafaring adventure Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World has few 30-foot waves going for it, and very little else that would excite anyone but geeky 12-year-old boys who like to make sailing ships out of matchsticks. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: It never achieves the visual elegance or majesty that a David Lean might have provided. The story line isn't the freshest. And yet the film is satisfying all the same. Read more
Bob Campbell, Newark Star-Ledger: It's an adventure movie by an artist. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Even if you can't tell a mizzenmast from a gangplank, Master and Commander will take your breath away. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: If this is the stuff that rings the bell on your macho meter, go with my blessing. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: To put it plainly, two ships playing tag across the seas is no longer my idea of whoopee, especially at a time when grown-ups are popping up all over the screen with uncensored stories of the eternal affinities and all their variations. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A thrilling, sweeping, visually stunning Napoleonic War adventure set on the high seas. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: For those with any interest in 18th and 19th century seafaring or naval warfare, this is a must-see motion picture. For others, it's an enlightening and entertaining experience, but there's the issue of the slow middle act to overcome. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Master and Commander is grand and glorious, and touching in its attention to its characters. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The film contains brilliantly crafted scenes and shots that are as compelling as anything seen onscreen this year, but there are also dull stretches in which the movie seems lightweight -- never in its execution but in its conception. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Master and Commander hooks you from its nifty opening salvo to its nifty closing punch line. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A swashbuckling epic for grownups. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Beautifully directed and acted, sumptuously costumed and rigged, with no less a man than Russell Crowe filling out the Captain's britches, this is mythmaking all dressed up and demanding a snappy salute -- heck, it's a Boy's Own adventure to die for. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Considering how cinema-unfriendly O'Brian was - the author rarely went to the movies, and had to be persuaded to release the film rights -- Master & Commander manages to loosen the shackles of its dry pages. Read more
Derek Adams, Time Out: Thanks in no small measure to Perfect Storm designer William Sandell, this handsomely mounted actioner exudes the authentic tang of salt, sweat and gunpowder. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Rare proof that a gigantic production in contemporary Hollywood can possess a distinctive personality, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World proves as bracing as a stiff wind on the open sea. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Crowe delivers a star performance in his trademark incarnation as the thoughtful roughneck. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Seems fated to disappoint everyone except the slick magazines that put it on their covers. Read more