Spirited by Alba August, with gorgeous cinematography and meticulous period detail, the film gives us an absorbing look at Lindgren's early life and a glimpse of her influence on generations of children.

| Nov 23, 2021

Becoming Astrid's saving grace is Alba August. She is in almost every frame of this film, and gives life to what, on paper, amounts to a Lifetime channel biopic.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2018

Throughout "Becoming Astrid," August acquits herself brilliantly; the woman we come to know is a tangle of impulses and qualities, and feels vibrantly alive.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 6, 2018

Though "Becoming Astrid" is unflinching in its depictions of Astrid's pain, it does not wallow. A shallower story would be rife with villains, but there are none here.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 29, 2018

Pippi Longstocking has sometimes been called an icon of feminist girl-power. If "Becoming Astrid' makes anything clear, it's that the character's creator was something of one herself.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 28, 2018

This film about an exemplary woman, made by women, is as much a pleasure as it is a lesson.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 23, 2018

Hansen's relaxed camera movements and fuzzy-soft compositions are quite beautiful, and the performances - including the superb Trine Dyrholm as the baby's Danish foster mother - are pitch-perfect.

| Nov 22, 2018

Yet as "Becoming Astrid" wends its way, it's also sometimes a sly biopic dare.

| Nov 20, 2018

Despite convincing performances, the film is hampered by its stylistic and moral conventionality.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 17, 2018

Under Pernille Fischer Christensen's astute direction, the actors never descend into bathos.

| Oct 10, 2018

Conventional but well-made.

| Feb 21, 2018

With a vibrant performance from fresh-faced Alba August as the lead, "Becoming Astrid" looks sure to become a hot seller and makes one eager for more episodes from Lindgren's astonishingly unconventional life.

| Feb 21, 2018

Using the fan letters of children as touchstones, the film tells a story which contains many of the same stirring qualities - resilience, triumph over adversity - which made Lindgren's fiction so enduringly popular.

| Feb 21, 2018