Avatar (2009 film) the Rings" (literature). It was a tougher sell ..." The film received mostly positive reviews. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 83% based on 301 reviews, with a rating average of 7.5/10. The site's consensus reads "It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but "Avatar" reaffirms James Cameron's singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking." On Metacritic — which assigns a weighted mean score — the film has a score of 83 out of 100 based on 35 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening
Avatar (2009 film) weekend revealed the average grade cinemagoers gave "Avatar" was "A" on an A+ to F scale. Every demographic surveyed was reported to give this rating. These polls also indicated that the main draw of the film was its use of 3D. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" called the film "extraordinary" and gave it four stars out of four. "Watching "Avatar", I felt sort of the same as when I saw "Star Wars" in 1977," he said, adding that like "Star Wars" and "", the film "employs a new generation of special effects" and it "is not simply a sensational