Potter used her wealth to protect what was near and dear to her. Those of us who knew nothing about her going in will walk away feeling as if we’ve just seen the biography of one of the most vital, steadfast, and unselfish persons to ever grace the Earth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2024

...boasts terrific work from both Zellweger and McGregor that’s heightened by their palpable chemistry together...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2023

Always accessible in a Downton-Abbey-goes-to-Play-School kind of way, as evidenced by Renée Zellweger's chipper portrayal of Potter as a bustle-skirted bundle of squinty smiles and sudden blushes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 24, 2020

Miss Potter -- as charming and enchanting as her beloved Tales of Peter Rabbit.

| Nov 13, 2019

Impersonating her, Renée Zellweger is willing to be plain, and she lets a gleam in her eye and the hamsterish clenching of her cheeks hint at Potter's formidable strength of will.

| Aug 23, 2018

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Miss Potter is too well crafted to actually be bad, but it's too light to be better than good. An entertaining trifle, but a trifle nonetheless.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 8, 2011

The movie is made to measure for mothers, aunts and grandmothers who would share Potter's books, such as "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," with tikes of any generation.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 25, 2009

A Beatrix Potter biopic: So much more than just cute and fuzzy bunnies.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 25, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

While it cannot sustain the fairytale enchantment of something like Finding Neverland, Miss Potter is, nonetheless, a worthy and sweet, middle-of-the-road biopic.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008

There's nothing inherently wrong with MISS POTTER. It's just a throwback to the biopics of the 1930s and 40s and in some ways it may seem progressive to contemporary audiences.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 14, 2007

Much like star Renée Zellweger's portrayal of its famous title character, Miss Potter is a strange, split-personality kind of thing.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 25, 2007

Portraying a real-life hero can be a tough assignment. But Zellweger breezes through the role, flashing her puckish grin, talking in her soft, breathy voice and giving very human face to one of the most beloved figures of English letters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 1, 2007

For fans of Potter's work, "Miss Potter" is indispensable. But even viewers with the haziest memories of those unique little books will enjoy spending 90 minutes inside her idyllic world.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2007

Director Chris Noonan ('Babe') gives us a story with the right balance of humor, pathos and romance.

| Original Score: B | May 6, 2007

Deftly navigating the line between the sublime and the saccharine ...

Full Review | Original Score: 87/100 | Apr 20, 2007

A film of no little charm, Chris Noonan's Miss Potter never quite gets out of 'Biopic Basic' mode despite occasional murmurings of a desire to be something more.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 11, 2007

Something of a muddle....The level of social criticism and psychological portraiture shifts from Howard's End to Mary Poppins.

| Mar 21, 2007

Enchanting, perhaps, but a long, long way from meaningful.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 17, 2007