Frozen (2013)

Maricar Estrella Disney has another hit in its repertoire with this heartfelt story of sisterly love and one of the few films released in 3-D this year that splendidly incorporates the technology into the plot line.

Scott Marks Frozen is a glacially stiff, perpetually unamusing animated musical with a talk-singing score that will leave one pining for the lifeless soundtrack to The Princess and the Frog.

Wesley Morris Frozen reminds you how many animated films rely more on inside jokes. It's modern without being hip, earnest with being sappy.

Anthony Lane Extravagant care is taken with minutiae, and the directors, Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, whistle through the first twenty minutes of the plot with a controlled giddiness that would leave many live-action adventures staggering in their tracks.

Joe Morgenstern If you thought there was only so much to be done with ice and snow as visual fields, think again along the lines of prismatic crystals, epic storms and fantastical structures built on water's gift for freezing itself into see-through art.

Catherine Bray Frozen' has both showtunes and darkness, but most satisfying is a formula-defying finale that successfully subverts the fairytale status quo.

Peter Travers In a year of weak animated features, Frozen - loosely based on "The Snow Queen" - takes the lead by default.

Adam Nayman It's hard to generate a sense of warmth when the plot points all feel so coldly calculated, and it doesn't help that the musical numbers are so pedestrian.

Bilge Ebiri Frozen is one of the few recent films to capture that classic Disney spirit.