More than anything, Gluck seems bored with the material, and worried that his audience will be too. Unfortunately, making the action more frenetic only adds to the sense of desperation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2018

The blend of animation and live action feels natural and even at its most ridiculous points, the film is still irresistibly likeable. It may not look like much at first but Peter Rabbit is an unexpected pleasure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2018

Gleeson and his committed stunt doubles fall down stairs impressively and often. The voice cast for the animated animals (Robbie, Ridley et al) is absurdly starry and game. Expect many, many sequels to this solid family comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2018

Beatrix Potter's children's books may have been out of copyright since 2014, but that's no excuse for this manure-scented take on her best-known tale.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 18, 2018

I found neither blackberrygate nor Corden particularly offensive, and the film as a whole quite fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2018

The new Peter Rabbit film could only really be improved with the addition of one thing: unfortunately, it's myxomatosis.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2018

When, oh when will someone take the twee merchandisable ickiness of Beatrix Potter's great creation Peter Rabbit and turn it into a sassy live-action animation like Babe or Alvin and the Chipmunks?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 15, 2018

In an era when so many animated features are so cloying, the slapstick, malice and offbeat humour here can't help but seem bracing and refreshing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2018

Will Gluck's high-speed digimation romp is best whenever it stops still, even screeches still, to comment tartly on the iconic. Not just iconic-Potterish; also iconic-proverbial.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2018

Take your paws off our Potter! This CGI reboot of our beloved bunny can hop it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2018

It's uneven but charming, but ultimately a fine family film, with some excellent turns by Domhnall Gleeson and Sam Neill.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2018

The animals are cute and Gleeson is extremely game. What keeps Peter from *Paddington*-style delight is a self-conscious need to distance itself from its source material.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2018

The movie remains an object lesson in how not to adapt a beloved volume to the screen.

| Feb 22, 2018

What makes this agitated update ultimately watchable is the obvious chemistry between Byrne and Gleeson and the honestly excellent CGI animation of Peter and company.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 15, 2018

It just happens to be clever, and funny, and moves as fast as a tyke on a sugar bender. If you squint hard enough, you'll also find some of the author's signature generosity and warmth, too.

| Original Score: B | Feb 15, 2018

Easy chuckles are no substitute for genuine charm. I'm just glad that Corden didn't insist on doing rabbit burrow karaoke.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2018

A children's film that makes its adult audience take stock of their own actions and ways of thinking, particularly as the story ends up abandoning the concept of heroes and villains, and paints its characters with shades of grey.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2018

There are good laughs along the way, but they're clobbered to death by Gluck's insistence that you acknowledge them.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 9, 2018

The gentle spirit of Beatrix Potter's books is subsumed into a chaotic, violent mayhem, manically soundtracked to the day's hits.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2018

While some will undoubtedly be amused, I certainly cannot count myself amongst any who would, this distasteful animation-live action hybrid an odious misfire I hope I never have to think about, let alone watch, ever again.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 9, 2018