Without a doubt, the best kind of family film that exists.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

Lassie has finally come home -- Come home to the big screen and back into our hearts where she belongs.

| Nov 13, 2019

Schmaltzy return for classic cinema canine.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

This story of a boy and his dog comes home to its roots in Yorkshire with a beautifully sensitive and traditional rendering. Using the original 1938 short story as its source, writer & director Charles Sturridge %u2013 best known for his superb work on Br

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2009

Writer/director Charles Sturridge adapts the heart-warming story with strict attention to its modest emotional underpinnings of family, devotion, and a beautiful collie.

| Original Score: B | Apr 20, 2009

An ode to the beleaguered people who face hardships, physical and emotional, with hopeful optimism.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 30, 2006

Dog and movie lovers, take note: Lassie has come home.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 26, 2006

It's a welcome throwback to the carefully crafted family films of the studio era.

| Dec 26, 2006

A sweetly old-fashioned, tail-wagging charmer of a family film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 23, 2006

Lassie dj vu filmed in the magnificent British Isles with more than enough animal stampedes to enthrall an entire theatre of ten year olds, and their parents.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 15, 2006

Knows that kids live in a grown-up world, that they are not isolated from such realities as unemployment or war, and can relate to the problems of adult characters as well as those of children and animals.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 8, 2006

...an utterly beguiling success.

| Sep 7, 2006

I think just one of the best family films of the year.

Full Review | Sep 5, 2006

Terrific performances by those with fur and without.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 2, 2006

If that doesn't bring a tear to your eye, then you're a robot with cross-wired circuitry.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 2, 2006

Lassie proves to be top dog in her latest feature film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2006

...The collie that became a star back in 1943 can still make you cry and cheer in the all-new Lassie.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 2, 2006

It plays your lacrimal glands like a violin, but honorably so.

Full Review | Sep 1, 2006

It's such a relief to settle into a film that lets dogs be dogs, children be children, and old-fashioned movies be old-fashioned movies.

| Sep 1, 2006

There is an unabashed old-fashioned quality to the story-telling, not quaint, not fusty, but very much of another era -- and what a relief that is.

| Sep 1, 2006