Casper is a deeply tragic yet oddly wholesome coming-of-age tale about loneliness and grief. Though the film is essentially a meditation on death, it isn’t all doom and gloom. It still has its zany moments and mid-90s charm.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2023

More like a Cinderella story than a gothic horror, this really was one of the most under-rated movies of the 1990s and should keep viewers of all ages engrossed on a slow summer holiday day.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 6, 2022

...an erratic but generally passable adaptation that could've easily been much, much worse.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 1, 2020

This movie was so important to me

| Original Score: 10 | Aug 12, 2020

It's a perfect kids movie

| Original Score: 10 | Aug 12, 2020

All these years later, Casper has managed to stick around thanks to it offering a pleasant blend of what audiences expect from a kids movie and some weightier thematic fare.

| May 24, 2020

It's a funny and often poignant film that's worth reexamining today.

| Aug 29, 2019

Never cloying or abundant with cutesy dialogue...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2012

Haunted house tale not as mild as the cartoons.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Only Ricci, strange gothic child that she is, gets close to shining next to the animation.

| Jul 16, 2010

t's aimed squarely at the tinies, but there is charm enough here to make it bearable for adults too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2010

A fairy tale with the soul of a rerun.

| Original Score: C | Jul 6, 2010

It's not clear why Steven Spielberg's Amblin decided to make a live-action entertainment starring the least interesting and most saccharine of all 50s cartoon characters.

| Apr 18, 2007

The high-tech animation is completely persuasive; nothing else is.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2007

Once the audience has become inured to the wide-eyed protagonist and impressive digitized effects, there's little sense of wonder or awe to be found.

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Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2007

The set design, however, merely disguises what is in fact an intimate and likeable picture.

| Jun 24, 2006

Nice kid's story. Good efects. Who would say that this innocent girl will become a sensual actrees...

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