Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Kent presents the female experience of war with crisp, tactile practicality . Unabashedly romantic the film may be, but little about Brittain's grief-ridden personal awakening is needlessly romanticized.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
The World War I-set "Testament of Youth" makes a passionate and sensible case for [pacifism] through devastating, melancholy, persevering drama.

Name : Cath Clarke / Alias : Time Out
A beautifully acted but disappointingly stiff period drama.

Name : Leslie Felperin / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Striking an elegantly sustained balance between intimacy and historical scope, director James Kent's WWI-set epic Testament of Youth encompasses nearly all of the virtues of classical British period drama and nearly none of the vices.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Nice, sweet, safe.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
Most of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is pedestrian kiddie fare. At least the 3D helps counter the film's prevailing dullness.

Name : Tom Maurstad / Alias : Dallas Morning News
This is true family fun. Not the two-tiered sort where there are potty jokes for the kids and pop culture references for the parents. Not only will everyone be laughing at the same time, they'll be laughing at the same things.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
There's little evidence of creativity either in the paint-by-numbers time-travelling plot or the sort of ad-libs you associate with gag writers sitting around a boardroom table.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is the best of the three films about our friends in the inter-species herd of plucky prehistoric heroes.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : Associated Press
Even the antics of little Scrat fall flat this time. The rodent whose pursuit of an elusive nut was the highlight of the first movies are tired and strained here.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
What? Dawn of the dinosaurs? In the Ice Age? You've got to be kidding.

Name : Peter Hartlaub / Alias : Houston Chronicle
If the third Ice Age were a bit better, there would be little need to dwell on the inconsistencies.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Treacly and barely amusing.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Rather than evolving, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs treads on familiar and infertile ground.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
Nobody seems to be working too hard in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
This is pretty silly stuff, even for a children's movie, and it sort of sells out the one original point the series used to have: Here was a prehistoric adventure that refused to go the yabba-dabbo-do route.

Name : Ben Mankiewicz / Alias : At the Movies
Certainly not terrible, but ultimately forgettable and that means you should skip it.

Name : Joe Leydon / Alias : Variety
With appreciably greater emphasis on action than its predecessors, and clever use of 3-D trickery to enhance storytelling as well as offer spectacle, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs could prove the third time really is the charm.

Name : Ben Lyons / Alias : At the Movies
The whole movie is more of the same and I'm afraid the franchis is running out of steam.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
There's a sense of ineptness in a script that constantly reaches, with only modest success, for amusing things that the mammoths and their friends can do.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
This third trip to the Ice Age cooler should delight families with its amusing new dino buddies, even as it risks terrifying tots.

Name : Vadim Rizov / Alias : Time Out
Lacking even the briefest flicker of a joke not culled from the fart-gag, pop-cultural-reference grab bag, the latest installment in Fox's most durable kiddie franchise offers unreasonably devoted parents less than usual to look forward to.

Name : Carrie Rickey / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Director Carlos Saldanha did such an excellent job infusing the second installment with energy that it's a shame he was unable to do the same with Part 3.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
The animation is first-rate, and the first look at the lost world beneath the ice is stunning, particularly in 3-D.

Name : James Rocchi / Alias : MSN Movies
There are chases and escapes, morals and messages, comedy and character. but when the fur stops flying, it still feels more frozen than fresh.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Not bad, not good.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Let us thank the producers of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs for remembering that adults sit beside the youngest viewers.

Name : Keith Phipps / Alias : AV Club
What follows: crude jokes, sweet lessons, Simon Pegg as an adventurer gone insane, and a bunch of decent animation, which select patrons will see in impressive 3-D. Ideally they'll be about 8 years old and hopped up on Junior Mints.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
It's not utterly without charm. Only here, that charm feels less earned than manufactured, a product not of evolution - or even intelligent design - but of cynical, soulless opportunism.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
With its three-dimensional action and two-dimensional feelings, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is warmed-over nonsense.

Name : Bob Mondello / Alias : NPR
A sweet little comedy, both family-friendly and centered on a nontraditional family — and so suitable for pretty much everyone.

Name : Michael Rechtshaffen / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Prehistory repeats itself in this dispiritingly slothful third installment.

Name : Ella Taylor / Alias : Village Voice
There's no breathing life into a formula that ought to have bowed out gracefully while the going was good.

Name : Lisa Kennedy / Alias : Denver Post
The finest idiosyncratic pleasure of this franchise remains the ongoing relationship of hapless squirrel-rat Scrat to his beloved acorn.

Name : Roger Moore / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
Some of the jokes work. The story seems concocted by a committee of Blackberries. But the 3D CG animation is quite an improvement from the first two films.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Never representative of more than mediocrity from a technical or story-based standpoint, the Ice Age series has reached a new nadir with its third entry.

Name : Andrea Gronvall / Alias : Chicago Reader
The manic pace quickly grows tiresome, as does the influx of cloying baby animals.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Why does the third installment of this animated tale often feel so glacial it's a wonder Ray Romano's Manny the mammoth doesn't freeze in his tracks?

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
This rambunctious outing - the third in the franchise - is cute enough to engage kids and just smart enough to keep the chaperones entertained.

Name : Derek Adams / Alias : Time Out
As with the two earlier films, it's all a mite disorderly in tempo but often highly amusing and great fun in the main.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
Even new scenes involving the once-hilarious Scrat, the hapless critter who can't hold onto an acorn, feel worn out. That's when you know it's time to go.

Name : Janice Page / Alias : Boston Globe
Yes, dinosaurs are cool. Just not cool enough to save this sequel.