Funny and sweet update of the Cinderella story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 21, 2010

This is simple, lazy storytelling rendered merely functional by appealing leads and the eternal lure of romantic fantasy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 19, 2004

Every high school clich in the book is dredged up for this piece of fluff

| Aug 19, 2004

The result is pure pumpkin, though fans of squeaky-clean, helium-voiced Hilary Duff might fall under its sickly sweet spell.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 3, 2004

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 20, 2004

A Cinderella Story doesn't break any new ground, but it's a well-acted little breeze of a film -- perfect if you're a 12-year-old girl.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2004

Let me get quickly to the word that best describes this movie. It is horrible.

| Jul 16, 2004

You can say of this movie, truly, that they took the most famous tale in the world and broke it.

| Jul 16, 2004

Desperately conceived by even the most insipid standards of contemporary teen-queen cinema.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 16, 2004

Give this wannabe Cinderella a big Bibbitti Bobbitti Boo.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 16, 2004

Duff is cute and chirpy; Murray is cute and bland, and the stepsisters squabble a lot. Ho-hum.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 16, 2004

It's not a terrible movie, just a disappointingly pleasant one.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2004

This witless little comedy takes the classic fairy tale and turns it into a Hilary Duff vehicle about popularity, e-mail and cell phones at a San Fernando Valley high school.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 16, 2004

An instantly forgettable wisp of marshmallow that revisits the same teen-crush cliches that have surely been in play since the days of the classic fairy tale it ransacks for inspiration.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 16, 2004

The Prince is a wet rag, the slapstick stepsisters are dull and even the fretful Sam seems colorless.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 16, 2004

Duff plays off her Lizzie Maguire persona as a cute but unassuming girl, but also conveys soulfulness and earnest longing.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 16, 2004

Content to be another candy-coloured fantasy. It'd be easier to enjoy it as such if most of the young characters here weren't mean-spirited caricatures who chiefly serve to illustrate Sam's virtues.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 16, 2004

Nothing's particularly risky or original, but neither is anything all that repulsive.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 16, 2004

The movie starts off keenly aware of the hokum of fairy-tale schemes. Yet, like a slew of similarly themed movies (The Prince & Me and 13 Going on 30), it has a hard time giving its audience a brand-new vision.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2004

A terrible movie, sappy and dead in the water.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 16, 2004