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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Adventure · Comedy · Family · 2004

Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.

Movie details

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

“Mishaps. Misadventures. Mayhem. Oh joy.”

2004 Adventure · Comedy · Family 1h 48m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.8 / 10

228.4K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

72 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

62 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.8 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.

CriticWise case file

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Brad Silberling

Written by

Robert Gordon

Emily Browning

Emily Browning

Violet Baudelaire

Liam Aiken

Liam Aiken

Klaus Baudelaire

Kara Hoffman

Kara Hoffman

Sunny Baudelaire

Shelby Hoffman

Shelby Hoffman

Sunny Baudelaire

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey

Count Olaf / Dr. Stephano / Captain Sham

Timothy Spall

Timothy Spall

Mr. Poe

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

Josephine Anwhistle

Court is in session

Put Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“It owes the canon nothing.”

The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”

It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.