I didn't think of doing this but somebody found Mick LaSalle's review of THE POLAR EXPRESS. An excerpt is below. If anything can be said to his credit, LaSalle is consistent...well, consistently blind.
It's also an enchanting, beautiful and brilliantly imagined film that constitutes a technological breakthrough. The one profound limitation of animation -- the rigid faces that don't allow for emotional nuance -- is overcome through a new process that allows actors to record their performances digitally onto a computer. These performances -- the gestures, the subtleties of facial expression -- are then used as the template for the computer-animation process.
It reminds me of Ward Jenkins's classic blog post about POLAR EXPRESS and how it could have been improved.