This is first-rate storytelling in every regard, with nary a false step taken at any point.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 30, 2024

A heart-warming and faithful adaptation of the classic novel, elevated by a parade of talented stars.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 9, 2024

I was struck all the way through by how neatly screenwriter Robin Swicord preserves so much of the novel while capturing its sense of warmth and its sense of deep female bonding.

| Apr 11, 2024

This is a lovingly told story, one with real humanity and an upbeat homage to family togetherness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 11, 2024

Armstrong and her team have made it an A-movie blubfest, a sisterhood fairy tale set in an almost operatic world of heightened emotional drama. The film feels both nicely dated and timeless at the same time.

| Apr 11, 2024

Armstrong's direction is strong, the ensemble acting is excellent, and Winona Ryder gives a winning performance as Jo.

| Apr 11, 2024

Helped by a fine performance from Sarandon, Armstrong pays homage to motherhood through her.

| Apr 11, 2024

Winona Ryder is a small revelation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2024

The slim story's anchor is Jo March, a fiercely independent achingly insecure bundle of promise played with shimmering vitality by Winona Ryder.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 11, 2024

The burnished world of Little Women still has elements of quaintness. But, like a museum full of lovingly arranged antiques, it's a space worth revisiting for its restorative powers.

| Apr 11, 2024

Little Women is a quietly spirited family entertainment, and sure to be a seasonal favorite for those who loved the book.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2024

The story may be flawed and slow in places, but Little Women is still worth a view.

| Apr 11, 2024

Armstrong clearly has approached this film as a labor of love, and devotees of Alcott's literary gem should be very happy, with this reading.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 11, 2024

It's a film that celebrates, all gender aside, humanity itself.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 11, 2024

The film's most striking assets are Jan Roelfs' gorgeous, meticulously evocative production design; Coleen Atwood's period perfect costumes; and Geoffrey Simpson's exquisite cinematography.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2024

Gillian Armstrong's Little Women is a great remake.

| Apr 11, 2024

The saga of the March sisters is still engrossing, and the sisters remain stalwart as role models for generations of female individualists, inspired by the book to do great things.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2024

The production values are superior and Armstrong offers one fine evocation after another of the period, without sentimentalizing it.

| Apr 11, 2024

The cast is impeccable, led by Winona Ryder as the leading figure and narrator. It is not a showy role, but she brings substance and credibility to the oft-told story.

| Apr 11, 2024

Our '90s skittishness about what women should and shouldn't want gives Robin Swicord's otherwise thoughtful script a reverential feeling that borders on the embalmed.

| Apr 11, 2024