A serviceable screen adaptation of a vastly popular stage play.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Narratively lively, visually enchanting, and musically euphoric, it’s one of the closest any Roald Dahl adaptation has come to fully embodying the joys and melancholies that have made Dahl such an iconic storyteller.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2024

A canorous adaptation of a remarkable children’s classic.

| Jun 11, 2024

The film ranges from funny visual comedy to staggering musical and emotionally investing drama with two excellent core performances from Emma Thompson and Lashana Lynch.

| Original Score: A | Mar 6, 2024

Not to detract from anyone else’s good work, but Minchin’s spiky, precise numbers, their lyrics clear and lacerating even in the mass choruses, are key to Matilda’s enduring magic.

| Sep 26, 2023

Matilda the Musical is a delightful revolt against parental, institutional, and educational tyranny. It is a celebration of girl power.

| Apr 14, 2023

As delightful as its title is clunky.

| Jan 31, 2023

The library full of charm remains, as does a story that's always relatable for all ages. Horrors and hilarity, a heroine for the ages, a hulking villain of a headmistress, the beloved Miss Honey, telekinetic powers: they're all also accounted for.

| Jan 26, 2023

Better than the '90s one!

| Jan 15, 2023

This musical is about just as good as the previous adaptation. Nothing revolutionary, but it works as a fun (if a bit long) coming-of-age tale focused on an extraordinary young girl and how she deals with greedy parents and a nasty school principal.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 11, 2023

It's a mixture of 1980s gaudiness and traditional British theater that mostly works well, but some viewers will be put off by the shrill aspects of this musical. Lashana Lynch's performance [as Miss Honey] is a delightful standout.

| Jan 8, 2023

Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical thrives on color, song and dance, impressive acting, and cunning camera work.

| Jan 6, 2023

This film will appeal to fans of musicals, fantasies, and twisted fairytales. The songs will especially make you want to tune in again and again.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 6, 2023

For Emma Thompson’s performance alone, Matilda The Musical is worth the investment, but you will still appreciate the songs and execution of this classic story.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 6, 2023

A spirited adaptation of the book and stage musical.

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

Weir’s confidence and talent is astonishing, so much so that “Matilda” will likely be referred to as the debut of a major talent in the not-to-distant future.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Jan 5, 2023

Ardent fans of the musical will rejoice for any reason to revisit the iconic songs and enthralling reinvention by genius Tim Minchin; all others will likely yearn for the Matilda struck into public consciousness nearly three decades prior.

| Jan 2, 2023

The new Matilda retains the novel’s warm melancholy without unnecessarily appealing to the Gen Z like so many contemporary musicals tend to.

| Dec 31, 2022

There were many good musical numbers written by Tim Minchin.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 31, 2022

The latest attempt is an adaptation of the Tony award winning musical Matilda called appropriately Matilda the Musical and I’d say it’s mostly successful in attempting to convert this difficult material to the big screen (or Netflix screen…)

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 30, 2022