Ultimately, the entire endeavor seems like an effort to cash in on a predictably bankable tale.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2006

Would I pay to see it? No, probably not, but then I'm not a 12-year-old girl or the parent of a young child.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2006

It's got lovely vistas, and earnest performances, and Allison Lohman... is very believable.

Full Review | Oct 25, 2006

It takes a pristine gift for mediocrity to ruin Mary O'Hara's muscular children's novel about a wild boy and his wild horse, but director Michael Mayer has brought off the massacre with aplomb.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2006

A beautifully photographed slice of pony porn for the preteen set.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 22, 2006

Set against the gorgeous backdrop of a Wyoming mountain range, [Flicka] offers up fantasy footage for every strong-willed girl who ever straddled a saddle.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Oct 20, 2006

Alison Lohman, the 27-year-old actress who plays Katy, makes the whole thing worth watching.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 20, 2006

This Flicka may not be a classic, but it's a nice afternoon's entertainment, particularly for girls who ride wild horses in their dreams.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 20, 2006

The apparent lesson of the movie? Keep disobeying your parents and you'll eventually get your way.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 20, 2006

Flicka is a bronc you shouldn't put money on.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 20, 2006

Often very beautiful looking, but gracelessly directed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 20, 2006

Flicka is a new version of the family classic about a teenager and a wild horse that's as misconceived as it is corny and predictable.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 20, 2006

Horse-mad tweens may not notice its flaws, but with a defter touch, even this familiar story might have made for a more exciting ride.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 20, 2006

As things progress, the magic of the story asserts itself over the audience.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 20, 2006

A guaranteed tearjerker.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2006

This is the kind of movie that many families are looking for, but all too rarely receive.

| Original Score: B | Oct 20, 2006

Alison Lohman is appropriately tousled as the rebellious teen, who identifies with the horse she's struggling to tame, but her performance is alternately shrill and pouty.

| Oct 20, 2006

[A] lovably corny adaptation of Mary O'Hara's grade-school classic, My Friend Flicka.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2006

"No one's riding that loco thing!" Well, of course as soon as we hear that line we know someone's going to have to ride it.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 19, 2006

A well-made family drama pitched to young adults that's honest, tough and surprisingly engaging.

| Oct 19, 2006