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

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

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

| Original Score: B- | Mar 17, 2007

Miss Potter is as seamless, comfortable and tidy as a Peter Rabbit story, all scones and biscuits, quietly punctuated by tolerable naughtiness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2007

If the source material is soft, the film then takes another punch with the casting of Renée Zellweger in the title role. She overflows with tics and twitches that make the author seem vaguely deranged.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 8, 2007

Unbearably, the script accommodates a quaking courtship between the slightly dotty Potter and her devoted young publisher, ho exchange romantic byplay such as, "You and rabbits -- extraordinary!" and "I recently remembered a story...about a duck!"

| Original Score: 3/6 | Feb 3, 2007

A grave disappointment.

Full Review | Jan 16, 2007

The thinness shows -- there isn't much of a story. Beatrix starts out as a feisty, idiosyncratic, talented gal and, save for a momentary lapse after a brush with tragedy, remains so right to the end of the bunny trail.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 12, 2007

Miss Potter gives us only the bedtime version of the Beatrix Potter story, perhaps appropriately so given the subject matter and target audience, which will likely be captivated by the film's undemanding narrative.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 12, 2007

Audiences who come with a little patience and an open heart will find themselves moved by seeing Beatrix discover her strength and embrace the world.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 11, 2007

Miss Potter, right to the end, is the definition of a nice movie, and that makes it a genuine oddball in a universe of increasingly distressed and uncivilized pop culture.

| Original Score: B | Jan 10, 2007

I found it slight but enchanting, which is not the same thing as slightly enchanting.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2007

The story really grows on you and it's very sweet and it's beautiful to look at.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2007

If the movie is respectful and factually informative, it's also tightly corseted -- in dramatic terms.

| Jan 8, 2007

It will certainly play well with older audiences and the kind of adolescent girls who draw faces in their O's.

| Jan 8, 2007

Feels more lightweight than it should and simultaneously not magical enough.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2007

Watching this horrifically twee film is like having your face pushed into a bowl of pot-pourri for 90 minutes in a two-star B&B somewhere in Cumbria.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 6, 2007

The film's wholesome, freshly scrubbed tedium suggests literary history drained of life and preserved in formaldehyde.

| Original Score: C | Jan 6, 2007

The uncertain rhythms and stresses of the piece suggest that they didn't know whether they were making a romance, a biography or a bedtime story. Miss Potter is all three, of course. And all are very engaging -- and happily G-rated.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 5, 2007

All-too-tasteful film, which is apparently aimed at mothers and daughters with far too much time on their hands.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 5, 2007