Mingling reality and fantasy, Forster has given us a luminous, touching meditation on life and art.

| Mar 13, 2018

Wooden, yes, and saccharine, too. Oh, and did I mention the neutered whimsy?

| Dec 26, 2017

Not about Peter Pan, and not a kids' movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Infused by an awkward decorum; the kind that descends on a gathering dominated by an unmentioned death or transgression.

| Feb 9, 2006

Plenty of narrative liberties have been taken. It doesn't matter a jot. At heart, this isn't a biography anyway, it's an ode to the power of the imagination.

| Jan 17, 2006

A nicely played family entertainment with perhaps more mystery than it knows what to do with.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

If it didn't have Johnny Depp as its star, Finding Neverland would barely pass muster as an average PBS Masterpiece Theatre entry.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2005

As usual, Depp is wonderful as Barrie, even when his Scottish accent disappears, though the film is somewhat stingy in providing more insight into what made this mysterious man tick.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 12, 2004

It's harmless cotton candy with pleasant turn-of-the-century dcor, but I admit the Disney ambiance eventually wore me out and I spent a lot of time looking at my watch.

| Nov 29, 2004

Depp is a charm. He becomes his own, subtly compelling Barrie.

| Nov 19, 2004

You're expected to weep, and perhaps you will weep. But if you do, it's not likely that you'll respect yourself in the morning.

| Nov 19, 2004

There isn't much that's less interesting to watch Johnny Depp do than bring a quiet and steady decency to anything.

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

The movie is one long snooze, until the finish leaves half the audience glowing and in tears.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2004

Pretty as a Victorian candy box and gentle as a sleeping child's breath, Finding Neverland is a small treasure of a film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 19, 2004

Some things are worth causing a lump in your throat. Finding Neverland is one of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 19, 2004

It's a mild pleasure to watch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2004

We can always see the frightened little boy in the man, and the importance of the role that make-believe plays in a world often too eager to tell us to accept things as they are instead of urging us to remake them by dreaming of how they could be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2004

It's a reminder that a sense of play is at the heart of every play -- at the heart of every artistic endeavor, for that matter -- and yet life is more than just a playground.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Nov 19, 2004

The verities are about the ways imagination is craved and curtailed by loved ones and by society.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2004