There [isn't] much zip to the script. But, shot by the late Andrew Lesnie... it always looks good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2025

It may be an airy fairy tale, quick and simple, but it’s exquisitely upbeat and sweet, with a perfectly triumphant finale.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 2, 2025

Babe is a delightful tale told with untold depths of joy and acceptance. It says that not only should you be accepted for who you are, you should be accepted regardless of what you choose to do or who you choose to be.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 26, 2022

Over 25 years later, Babe remains one of 1995's best pictures of the year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 11, 2022

Much to my surprise, I found Babe charming in an eccentric, oddly tough-minded sort of way. And if it isn't quite good enough to change my mind about the entire critter-chat genre, it is certainly good enough to recommend.

| Jun 16, 2015

Wise, captivating and thoroughly loony, this artful little farm fable is one of those rare films that works for all age levels.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2015

He's brave and bright, good-natured and ambitious, naive and vulnerable. All in all, he's probably the most winsome orphan to appear on the screen since Freddie Bartholomew impersonated David Copperfield 60 years ago.

| Aug 19, 2014

Thanks to well-trained live animals, clever voice characterizations and a big dash of muppetry from Henson's Creature Shop, Babe and his barnyard friends not only walk the walk and trot the trot, they also talk the talk.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 19, 2014

Here's the summer's sleeper for kids and their parents, a terrific picture that takes a lot of risks and makes them all pay off in a charming story about a pig who fancies himself a sheepdog -- or sheep-pig.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 19, 2014

Babe is not, strictly speaking, a kid's movie. It is a preposterously funny fable that strikes a chord with adults, too.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 30, 2013

The hero of the children's movie Babe is probably the summer's most likable character -- a pig so appealing he may have your family swearing off hot dogs.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 30, 2013

For children, the movie will play like a storybook come to life. Adults, at first, will marvel at the special effects and puppetry. But ultimately, they'll be won over by the nuances of a story that finds a fresh way to deliver a timeless message.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 30, 2013

A film that is exceptional in its technical effects and its graceful ability to entertain.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 30, 2013

The plot provides a worthy lesson for kids, but it plays out like George Orwell's Animal Farm as retold by Barney. Kinda weird.

| Jul 30, 2013

It's a delight from start to finish that will captivate children and melt the heart of even the grumpiest adult.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2013

[It's] a comedy of animal manners that is much funnier and much cannier than any recent movie about human relationships: a lovely, stubbornly idiosyncratic fable of aspiration and survival.

| Jul 30, 2013

The movie is at times raucous, but its spirits couldn't be higher, and the tale teaches a good-natured lesson about why cooperation is better than coercion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 30, 2013

Heartwarming farm story touching and a bit scary.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Every movie for children should be made with this much care, expressing this much unparalleled richness and beauty

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 4, 2010

This reviewer for one, hasn't been able to face a pork chop in the months since, and is still laughing at the vibrant joyousness of this delicious comic fable.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 13, 2008