This is a shameless heartstring plucker. But it’s charming and sometimes very funny.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2024

This is a movie where the quirk is cranked up to an eleven.

| Oct 24, 2024

It sustains an innocent storybook tone throughout, thanks mainly to strong performances from its lead actors, Elijah Wood and Nell Fisher, and lush images of the New Zealand countryside.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2024

Ant Timpson’s heartwarming Bookworm is an effulgent love letter to ’80s kid cinema laced with a distinctly quirky, Kiwi dryness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 27, 2024

Thoughtful, entertaining, humorous...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 31, 2024

Aside from being a really lovely, fun little family movie with all the freshness and authenticity that marks the best of the genre, Bookworm is also an impressive calling card for one of the most exciting young actors working today

| Aug 5, 2024

Fearlessly specific in its comedy and just as attentive with its character arcs, this algebraic study in adventure might have a metaphoric typo or two (insert obligatory comment about CGI), but it’s mostly a triumph.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 19, 2024

Those who prefer their family films to be a tad peculiar may be pleased by this idiosyncratic, uneven project.

| Jul 19, 2024