Overall, The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet is beautiful to watch and will make a star out of young Kyle Catlett.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 20, 2019

While colourfully idyllic in almost every respect, The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet's vision finds itself sadly lacking in overall depth and symbolic relevance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 14, 2019

It's an enchanting, imaginative film that is at times pure enjoyment, one you can watch with childlike, eye-popping wonder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2019

The result of this unforgiving artificializing of a culture that's pretty artificial to begin with is what the future will recognize as one of Jeunet's masterpieces.

| Aug 23, 2018

T.S. Spivet may not convert Jeunet's dissenters, but for those who have admired the auteur's past oeuvre, this is another sumptuous curio.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2018

I simply can't recommend it. Too meandering, too dull; and not even saved by the glorious Helena Bonham Carter.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 21, 2018

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet should be counted amongst the best of children's films.

| Dec 7, 2016

The second English-language feature by Amlie's Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a road movie that has captured its visually striking journey in glorious 3D.

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

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet is the perfect 3D vehicle and Jeunet takes full advantage, offering a feast of amusing visual flourishes suited to the book's playfulness.

| Jan 1, 2016

The quirky charm, visual wit and melancholy undertow of Reif Larsen's The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet translate joyously to the screen in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spite.

| Jan 1, 2016

It's the multilayered 3-D wizardry with a retro feel that gives Young and Prodigious a delirious sense of timelessness, all set in a magic-realist world where ghosts and dogs might suddenly speak.

| Jan 1, 2016

Jeunet never finds a matching aesthetic, shooting in an over-saturated 3D palette and doubling down on forced Americana, although most of the film was shot in BC and Alberta. It just doesn't work.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 18, 2015

Sad, beautiful tale of boy genius and tragic gun accident.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2015

Even at its zippiest ... The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet is infused with a pervasive sense of melancholy and loss, with a family that seems as damaged as they are lovably quirky.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 6, 2015

It should have been Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Hugo, a 3-D art film to impress critics and families during holiday/awards season. Instead, it may be his Idiocracy.

| Aug 5, 2015

Everything you expect from Jeunet: playful filmmaking, a fanciful story, strange plot twists, delightfully eccentric characters and a lot more seriousness than it appears on the surface.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 5, 2015

The quirky tone and whimsical elements of the film are the perfect juxtaposition to the heaping piles of pathos that are in every cell of this film...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 3, 2015

A typical Jeunet film, which means that it's amazingly accomplished from a technical point of view but synthetic and emotionally remote...a truly personal effort that has to be taken on its own terms or not at all.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 2, 2015

A head rush of big screen detail and beauty, but as a story, it's something of a mess, trying to focus on profound pain while the production arranges all types of widescreen minutiae.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 29, 2015

Like cross-breeding a chihuahua with a Jack Russell, the result may be doubly cute, but also doubly annoying.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 10, 2015