While Prancer comes across as E.T. with antlers, its performances are good and its atmosphere authentic.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 13, 2024

Though the film doesn't inspire awe visually, it does offer a heartwarming, unabashedly family-oriented story.

| Dec 13, 2024

The picture has enough good-heartedness to work despite the simplistic conceits of Greg Taylor's screenplay.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 13, 2024

Not exactly rapid-fire to begin with, Prancer slows to a crawl toward the end. Maurice Jarre's syrupy score, suggesting a majesty not present in the visuals, drags it down further.

| Dec 13, 2024

Scenes with Prancer himself are more realistic than might be expected of a relatively low-budget 1980s film, and a touching relationship develops between the reindeer and young Jessica.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2022

A hodgepodge of Heidi and Meet Me in St. Louis.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 14, 2014

This is a tale about faith and love, but it's also a story of coldness and death. Prancer, you might say, puts the winter solstice back in Christmas/

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2014

Harrell carries the film with an impressive performance for a child whose only previous experience was as a singing litterbug in a school play.

| Dec 14, 2014

While charming in conception and beautifully photographed in the dead of a Midwestern winter, Prancer is marred by a principal role.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 14, 2014

It's a tribute to veteran 온라인카지노추천 writer Greg Taylor's script and, especially, to the acting of 9-year-old Ms. Harrell that the movie remains engaging and palatably sweet.

| Dec 14, 2014

In the end, Prancer is a simple pleasure as the story of one special child's faith in the spirit of Christmas, a faith that changes her family and her community for the better.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 14, 2014

This charming and disarming family film offers wish fulfilment to all but the most cynical of youngsters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 14, 2014

Prancer remains a real curiosity -- a movie that`s far from being successful on its own terms, yet better than those terms would suggest.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 13, 2014

Forgettable Christmas movie featuring Sam Elliott.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2009

Prancer deserves to join the select ranks of those Christmas movies we return to again and again.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 27, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2005

Harmless, pleasant Xmas-themed family fare.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2005

...worth a look around the holidays.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 15, 2005

Its plodding competence can't provide that effortless magical touch that Christmas classics are made of.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

An oddly dark, moving holiday film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2003