Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
This movie really moves. But a fleet of tanks couldn't help the brothers Dowdle push past the plot holes in the screwiest mix of suspense and stereotypes since Michael Bay was a pup

Name : Stephen Dalton / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Dowdle delivers enough adrenalized tension to maintain his track record of profitable, populist pulp.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Writer-director John Eric Dowdle makes the street action propulsive, bewildering and terrifyingly real, and things are just getting warmed up.

Name : Kevin P. Sullivan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Even ignoring the racism-which is pretty much impossible-No Escape is a cliche-ridden, artless relic.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
A taut thriller about an American family touching down in an unnamed country just as a violent coup erupts, No Escape goes about its gut-churning business by playing (and preying) on our worst xenophobic tendencies.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
There's no fleeing the clunkiness in "No Escape."

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
If you've really been wanting to see endless shots of Owen Wilson running, sometimes while carrying a medium-sized child, the thriller "No Escape" might be just for you.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Supersize your popcorn, check your logic at the door and settle in for a pretty good ride.

Name : Julia Cooper / Alias : Globe and Mail
Whatever seeds of social justice and emotional nuance No Escape may be attempting to sow are undercut by the film's melodramatic valorization of family values.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
I won't make a case for No Escape being a good film; the first half is pretty good and the second half ranges from pretty bad to truly awful.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
In terms of pure popcorn escapism, No Escape delivers from the get-go, cutting to the chase without belabouring the character details.

Name : Michael Granberry / Alias : Dallas Morning News
A nearly two-hour thrill ride that, tired cliche that it is, really does keep you on the edge of your seat.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Dowdle sticks closely to the family's perspective, for better and for worse; though fairly effective at conveying their terror, he fails to establish any sort of social or political context for the story.

Name : Daniel M. Gold / Alias : New York Times
Among the most terrifying scenes is an early shot of Mr. Brosnan in the hotel bar, shouting lyrics to a Huey Lewis tune. Oh, the horror.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
No Escape is a tense but utterly predictable exercise in Western xenophobic paranoia and guilt.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Between the script and the superior editing by Elliot Greenberg, there's an enormous amount of tension and thrills to be found here; unfortunately, they're all in the service of a movie that's reprehensible to the core.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
A thoroughly ugly film for an audience that doesn't care who's shooting whom.

Name : Walter V. Addiego / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Strict plausibility isn't necessary in these movies, but you can't just throw it out the window, and "No Escape" shows why.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
No Escape is an outlandish, sometimes brutally violent, exploitative, fast-paced white-knuckler featuring your classic American everyman who suddenly develops action-hero skills when his family is placed in danger.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
No Escape is pretty trashy, but it held my attention, which is more than I can say for most of the summer fodder.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Bang, boom, bam. That's about the size of things in No Escape, a movie banking on its admittedly first-rate action drowning out its political tone-deafness.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
This isn't lightweight, fanciful entertainment; it's tense, white-knuckle material.

Name : Jake Coyle / Alias : Associated Press
Taut, well-made and entirely dubious.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Despite its illegible chase scenes, awkward slow-motion shots, and fumbling attempts at political commentary, No Escape manages to be intermittently interesting, thanks to an off-beat supporting turn from Pierce Brosnan.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
A technically accomplished, morally rank slab of cultural exploitation .

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
Every Asian character is either a ruthless murderer or anonymous collateral damage. A lot of locals have to die, the film suggests, in order for one white family to survive.

Name : Keith Phipps / Alias : AV Club
Gone: the liquid reality of dreams and a sense that anything can happen. In its place: another story of quests, destinies, and chosen ones.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
It looks like a CGI head trip gone postapocalyptic. In the film's rather humdrum 3-D, the place doesn't dazzle - it droops.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
It's just hard to know why Mr. Burton, who doesn't seem much interested in Alice, bothered.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
A visually imaginative fairy tale that suffers slightly from its predictable course but still manages to wow at all the crucial moments.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Variety
Alice in Wonderland has its moments of delight, humor and bedazzlement. But it also becomes more ordinary as it goes along, building to a generic battle climax similar to any number of others in CGI-heavy movies of the past few years.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Burton, one of the great visual artists in Hollywood history, is incapable of making an uninteresting movie. Still, I'm not looking forward to the sequel promised in the last scene.

Name : Claire Martin / Alias : Denver Post
Burton and Disney have found a glorious way to interpret fairy tales and fantasies.

Name : Chris Vognar / Alias : Dallas Morning News
[Depp's] wide eyes and high whimsy feel a bit derivative of his Willy Wonka (another collaboration with Burton), but he invests so much of his ample energy and instinct in these roles that it's hard to complain.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Here's a riddle: What's Alice in Wonderland without wonder? It's a beloved character landing in the rubble of wrong-headed revisionism.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
IBurton and Woolverton pursue a message of self-fulfilment, not as vigorously as they might chase a rabbit but to the same delightful end.

Name : Randy Myers / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
You leave the theater with a pleasant grin on your face, but by no means is it as wide as the Cheshire Cat's, and that's a shame.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
When it comes to 3-D visual splendors, give me Wonderland over Pandora any day.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Alice plays better as an adult hallucination, which is how Burton rather brilliantly interprets it until a pointless third act flies off the rails.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Carroll purists and freshman English majors may be aghast at the change in story, but for those who watched Avatar and marveled at the images but were left wanting by the wooden acting and tired story, Alice is a treat.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Indecision haunts every frame. The result is a clattering, hectic spectacle that by the end has run out of inspiration. It's a home for abandoned ideas.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
No knockouts here. No tkos, either.

Name : Laremy Legel / Alias : Film.com
Alice in Wonderland is, strangely, about the movie you'd expect based on the talent involved.

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
"Frabjous" may be a word Carroll invented, but Burton knows just what it means, at least in his own mind. He's clearly excited to invite us inside, and as long as you're open to so much muchness, you'll be very glad he did.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
Much of Carroll's magical nonsense remains, even if Burton's film wobbles at the gates of anarchy and ends up being a more average affair than many might expect.

Name : Amy Biancolli / Alias : Houston Chronicle
Its single biggest failing - an affront to Lewis Carroll and the charms of nonsense literature - is the fact that it makes sense.

Name : Thomas Rogers / Alias : Salon.com
I found myself trying so hard to like Alice in Wonderland that the process of watching it exhausted me.

Name : J. Hoberman / Alias : Village Voice
The new Alice is casually absurd, off-handed in its violence, and doggedly on message. The movie is not just three-dimensional but blatantly programmatic.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small, and the pills Tim Burton gives you don't do very much at all.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
Alice in Wonderland isn't quite the natural fit of director and material that it seemed to be on paper, but most of Burton's recent movies have been far more disappointing.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
The sweetly surreal feeling of those original books has been lost. What always felt like an English garden party gone slightly off has been replaced by the grotesque and the Gothic and the overdone.

Name : Rick Groen / Alias : Globe and Mail
The true three-dimensionality here is the old-fashioned kind - Wasikowska's fully rounded performance. Throughout the technical razzle-dazzle, we keep returning to the pallor of that face, the gravity in those eyes.

Name : Christopher Rosen / Alias : New York Observer
It might be time for Johnny Depp and Tim Burton to start thinking about seeing other people.

Name : Roger Moore / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
Purists will squeal, but it's a workable and watchable liberty to take with an oft-filmed yet impossible to film novel.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : I.E. Weekly
"Curiouser and curiouser," says Alice in Tim Burton's latest, and for the first time I don't believe her.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Though it has a few moments where you can see Burton's imagination giving way to Disney convention, along with a bit of trademark Burton darkness, the pleasures of Alice are virtually always unexpected.

Name : James Rocchi / Alias : MSN Movies
Combines the heavy-handed clamminess of unneeded brand remarketing with the hateful hollowness of overdone and empty computer-generated imagery. . With Burton's uninspired, underdone and underwritten version, you only feel like you're watching money.

Name : Richard Corliss / Alias : TIME Magazine
So how's the movie? Mostly frabjous. The visual palette is more artfully riotous than that of other Alice films, the performances more zestful.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Burton, bless him, knows you can't CG a soul.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : At the Movies
A really interesting movie.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
It's a workmanlike effort that will enchant all but the youngest children while holding the interest of parents. That, by definition, makes for a worthwhile family outing.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Its best and strangest interludes assert Burton's skills as a fantasist, as well as Depp's as a squirrely, inventive character actor.

Name : Carrie Rickey / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Carroll purists are likely to dismiss this Alice as spuriouser and spuriouser. But who expects a faithful adaptation of a literary classic from Timothy Beetlejuice?

Name : Dana Stevens / Alias : Slate
A film adaptation should, of course, treat its source material as inspiration rather than dogma. But did Burton have to get the books so entirely wrong?

Name : Jake Coyle / Alias : Associated Press
Though Burton's film boasts some excellent performances, as the caterpillar says to our heroine, it's merely "almost Alice."

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A fantastical romp that proves every bit as transporting as that movie about the blue people of Pandora, his Alice is more than just a gorgeous 3D sight to behold.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
In its big-budget extraordinariness, Alice is awfully.ordinary.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Even Disney and a PG rating can't bury Burton's subversive wit. Like Carroll, he's a master at dressing up psychic wounds in fantasy.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
A succession of chases and fanciful combats, more akin to Dungeons & Dragons than to Carroll, leads to a peculiarly truncated climax. The 3-D effects are enjoyable, but the added depth can't make up for deficits in the concept or the plot.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Even considering the liberties Burton has taken with the original text, it's tempting to think that Carroll himself would consider him an altogether frabjous match.