To paraphrase a speech made once upon a time in a pumpkin patch, there's no hypocrisy to be found in any of this, just sincerity, pretty much as far as the eye can see.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 22, 2016

Rendering the Red Baron-fighting Snoopy and way too many supporting characters in 3-D, and placing them in near-photo-realistic backgrounds, drains much of the charm from "The Peanuts Movie."

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 20, 2016

We're delighted to report that: you're a good movie, Charlie Brown.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2016

If you are looking for an agreeable and entertaining school holidays film for younger children, this is it. Fans of the comic strip should get a kick out of it, too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2016

The Peanuts Movie is charming in parts and high in nostalgia value for generations that virtually befriended characters such as Snoopy, Linus (with his security blanket), Lucy and Pig Pen.

| Jan 2, 2016

The Peanuts Movie is both modern and traditional, pleasing on all fronts, which must have been hard to achieve.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 2, 2016

The voices are too gloopy, Linus has been given an unnecessary hair transplant and, worst of all, Snoopy's plot thread (technically a story-within-a-story) is dull and dodgy.

| Dec 27, 2015

It's slight, but sweet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2015

Overall, wry observation and pathos take precedence over crowd-pleasing slapstick, although some dreary pop songs prove a drag.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 20, 2015

The self-effacing Charlie is the antithesis of the typical American movie hero. The film is charming and whimsical but makes some very trenchant points about the grimmer side of an all-American childhood.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2015

Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie will serve young children well as a Christmas outing, but whether it serves the child that remains in all of us early Peanuts fans is another question.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2015

A Christmas nostalgia trip for parents.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2015

For the most part, the film just seems to waft along, and though Charlie Brown's life is low-key by nature, the stories are mostly flimsily low-impact.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2015

What a delight this is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 14, 2015

In the figurative sense, though, the characters' sharp edges have been filed down.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 12, 2015

Somehow, this Peanuts feels familiar, even cozy. I can't make any great claims for it, but it feels like the return of an old friend.

| Nov 8, 2015

...a successful bridge between the old and the new, and one that, no matter its emotional slimness, ultimately never loses sight of the fretful angst with which all kids must, at some point, contend.

| Original Score: B | Nov 7, 2015

Without suffering, Peanuts becomes little more than wholesome distraction for kiddies.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 6, 2015

A terrific big-screen version that should satisfy Peanuts fans and generate new ones.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 6, 2015

There's something sad about seeing a character as sweet and simple as good ol' Charlie Brown so totally ruined.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 6, 2015