The Good Dinosaur is a children's fable that is more than content to be exactly what it is and little more.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2016

The script is puzzlingly devoid of wit, the conflicts and character arcs are unimaginative and stale, the pacing is inexorable, and the plotting is rudimentary at best.

| Apr 30, 2016

The Good Dinosaur is a much better film than Cars but the newer movie's propensity for sentimentality and Americana does indeed recall the earlier, unlovely Pixar adventure.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2016

What does stand out is the animation, especially the realistic depiction of flowing rivers, raging storms, placid lagoons, geysers and thermal pools. And the Apatosaurus are cute too.

| Jan 2, 2016

Very good indeed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2015

If The Good Dinosaur falls low in the rankings of the company's now 16 titles, it is still leagues finer than the flurry of frenetic colors and screwball pacing of the standard children's animated movie.

| Dec 3, 2015

The Good Dinosaur is the animation behemoth Pixar at its most formulaic and uninspired.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2015

Written by Meg LeFauve, with her, Sohn, and others credited on story, The Good Dinosaur features the most mundane narrative of any Pixar film-mundane because it so blatantly aspires to mythic resonance.

| Nov 30, 2015

However much it may delight on a scene-by-scene basis, The Good Dinosaur never comes together as a coherent whole, a crucial flaw for a film by Pixar, which has always put story first.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2015

The Good Dinosaur is by no means a bad movie. But it breaks new ground for Pixar in that it's the studio's first feature that is explicitly-and pretty much exclusively-a kid's movie.

| Nov 28, 2015

Even the look of The Good Dinosaur's main character seems outdated, blocky, and out of place in his own world.

| Nov 27, 2015

The digital landscapes are meant to be breathtakingly beautiful, but they tend to come across more like very expensive screensavers or immersive desktop wallpapers.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 27, 2015

I found it desperately disappointing, unoriginal and twee ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 26, 2015

OK, it's not pushing the boundaries of storytelling, but it certainly does the job.

| Original Score: B | Nov 25, 2015

The characters may look cartoony-and cloyingly cute-but they're wandering through what could be Thomas Hill paintings in panoramic widescreen.

| Nov 25, 2015

As Pixar productions go, this one isn't a groundbreaker, but it's heartfelt and endearing, as well as visually splendiferous, and kids will love it for sure.

| Nov 25, 2015

The resulting film is amiable, pretty, and charming in all the right ways -- even if it ultimately settles for a fairly typical tale of a late bloomer finding his way.

| Nov 25, 2015

The intricately designed settings convey a Miyazaki-like reverence for the natural world, and the hero's longing for his family is affecting, never saccharine.

| Nov 25, 2015

Perfect holiday treat for the kids with great characters and majestically rendered landscapes.

| Nov 25, 2015

The animation in The Good Dinosaur retains all the ambition and boundary-pushing of Pixar's best films, but the story beats echo too many predecessors to feel fresh, and the script feels unfinished.

| Nov 25, 2015