88 Rolling Stone | Peter Travers Zemeckis springs so many pow 3-D surprises you'll think Beowulf is your own private fun house. Read full review
83 Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman Beowulf is a solemnly gorgeous, at times borderline stolid piece of Tolkien-with-a-joystick mythology. Read full review
75 Boston Globe | Ty Burr Not all of it works - and not all of it works the way the target audience of jacked-up young males might want it to - but the movie is hugely provocative fun, and I'm pretty sure that's on purpose. Read full review
75 USA Today | Claudia Puig Beowulf couldn't be less faithful to the original epic poem, and that's actually a good thing for moviegoers. It's a lot more fun than the mythic adventure most of us read in school. Read full review