Giving "Beowulf" three out of four stars, Roger Ebert argues that the film is a satire of the original poem. "Time" magazine critic Richard Corliss describes the film as one with "power and depth" and suggests that the "effects scenes look realer ["sic"], more integrated into the visual fabric, because they meet the traced-over live-action elements halfway. It all suggests that this kind of a moviemaking is more than a stunt. By imagining the distant past so vividly, Zemeckis and his team prove that character capture has a future." Corliss later named it the 10th best film of 2007. "Rolling Stone" critic Peter Travers argues that "The eighth-century "Beowulf", goosed into twenty-first century life by a screenplay from sci-fi guru Neil Gaiman and "Pulp Fiction"'s Roger Avary, will have you jumping out of your skin and begging for more... I've never seen a 3-D movie pop with this kind of clarity and oomph. It's outrageously entertaining."