The Golden Compass

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  • Opened December 7, 2007 
  • 1 hr 54 min
  • PG-13 | sequences of fantasy violence

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 12+. More on child suitability

  • *Sneak Previews playing Saturday, December 1, 2007
    Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) is an orphan who lives happily in Jordan College, Oxford, playing with local boys and terrorizing the professors. However, when Lyra overhears scholars discussing a plot against her uncle, Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), centering a mysterious substance called Dust, her curiosity is roused. Soon Lyra is in over her head as she uncovers a frightening plot and a whole new world of possibilities. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Nicole Kidman, Dakota Blue Richards, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green
  • Director: Chris Weitz
  • Genres: Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Loved it, good and weird....

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the movie was very good and It got great Visual Effects....

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

A darker, deeper fantasy epic than the "Rings" trilogy, "The Chronicles of Narnia" or the "Potter" films. It springs from the same British world of quasi-philosophical magic, but creates more complex villains and poses more intriguing questions. As a visual experience, it is superb. As an escapist fantasy, it is challenging. Read full review

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New York Daily News
| Jack Mathews

Represents the year's biggest gamble - and it delivers the year's biggest and most ambitious fantasy. Read full review

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Chicago Tribune
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It’s pure introductory adventure, meant to immerse readers in Pullman’s richly complicated fantasy universe. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

If Weitz's Golden Compass feels, at times, too crammed with exposition and big set pieces, the film nonetheless works far more successfully than the first Potter pic - the leaden "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" - did translating its source material. Read full review

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Nicole Kidman in "The Golden Compass."