No better children's film has appeared all year, but my bet is it'll be the grown-ups, not the kids, who come away with a lump in the throat.

| Feb 27, 2018

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Thrilling, touching adventure for animal lovers.

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

The dynamic between Daniels' vigorous, if self-involved, artist father and Paquin's initially sullen, eventually self-discovering teenager is warmly and believably conveyed, with both thesps doing strongly individualistic work.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2008

Anna Paquin proves again what an expressive, soulful actress she is, and Daniels' madcap dad is a winning study in hippy ingenuity and indefatigability.

| Jan 26, 2006

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2002

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The tender beauty of Carroll Ballard's ''Fly Away Home'' goes well beyond what might be expected from a movie about things that hatch.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's a genuine delight and a definite thumbs aloft for kids of about six upwards.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

From bumbling infants to majestic adults, a flock hasn't been this charismatic onscreen since Hitchcock went bird-watching.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's a movie about dreamers that, for once, doesn't make you feel like a sap for buying into their dreams.

| Jan 1, 2000

A former cinematographer himself, [Ballard] works with the great cameraman Caleb Deschanel to make the film visually uplifting, and the story is quirky enough and the dialogue so fresh and well-acted that this film rises above its genre.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B | Sep 13, 1996