It's just a sweet time for everyone.

| Sep 29, 2020

Paddington is absolutely, positively delightful.

| Jan 19, 2015

Paddington is a wonder: warm, gentle, well-acted, funny without being stupid.

| Jan 17, 2015

True to the gentle humor and sweetness of the books.

| Original Score: B | Jan 16, 2015

A good-hearted film... as witty and clever as it is charming...

Full Review | Jan 16, 2015

Paddington...comes off as a charming character. The kind of character that children around the world have fallen in love with...But even with all the bear's charm, a plodding pace and a questionable plotline leave the film version less desirable to watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2015

A respectable screen version of Michael Bond's classic children's books.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2015

It manages to be both old-fashioned and high-tech. It remains faithful to the character's roots while also placing him firmly within a contemporary setting. It's charmingly funny and shamelessly punny.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2015

This is not only a dandy, playful movie about a talking bear, but one that gives pause for thought, too.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 16, 2015

'Paddington' is an absolute delight, visually inventive, thoroughly goofy and goosed by a mix of dry British wit and pratfall shenanigans.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 16, 2015

A charming, witty, gentle mix of live action and CGI that will delight children and parents.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 16, 2015

For parents looking for a film that'll please them and their kids in equal measure, Paddington is -- as Goldilocks would say in that other bear story -- just right.

| Jan 15, 2015

This is a charming film whose underlying message of tolerance and acceptance strikes a palpable chord in today's world -- both for children and adults.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 15, 2015

Just about perfect, at least as a collection of sketches without any particular direction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2015

Artfully and cleverly, the sweet spirit of that young bear from darkest Peru and his many London misadventures materializes brilliantly on screen in the very good hands of writer-director-conjurer Paul King.

| Jan 15, 2015

Despite the kid-gloves sensibility, "Paddington" delivers a knockout blend of fluid animation and live action.

| Jan 15, 2015

[It] feels like victory - sweet, but with a bit of bite, much like Paddington's favorite marmalade.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 15, 2015

Utterly beguiling and totally eccentric, Paddington is the first theatrical movie to tell the story of the beloved bear from darkest Peru.

| Jan 15, 2015

True, a lot of marmalade gets spread around, and at times the zaniness gets a bit too slap-sticky, but it's all good clean fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2015

He's a bear you care about from the first candy-colored frames of the film, which teems with delightful images in a seamless mélange of live action and computer animation.

Full Review | Jan 15, 2015