Lovely version of the favorite middle-school book.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 6, 2002

Harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 5, 2002

Those with the patience to submit to its low-energy charms may find their time well spent.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 18, 2002

Any movie that signals the menace of a potential lynching by zooming its camera through the loop of a gallows noose cannot claim subtlety, but director Jay Russell never lets the swirling emotions of Tuck become too drippy.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 17, 2002

Bledel and Jonathan Jackson's gorge-side canoodling drifts dangerously close to Blue Lagoon territory.

| Oct 15, 2002

A successful merger of the whimsical and the weird.

Full Review | Oct 14, 2002

The combined talent helps raise Tuck Everlasting to the realm of quality children's entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2002

Its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters, but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2002

Director Jay Russell stomps in hobnail boots over Natalie Babbitt's gentle, endearing 1975 children's novel.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 11, 2002

The film casts a spell that's hard to resist, and in the end has much to tell us -- however old we may be -- about life and death.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

As Winnie, Gilmore Girl Alexis Bledel shines.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Ineptly crunched film version of Natalie Babbitt's acclaimed 1975 children's book.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 11, 2002

It's solid and affecting and exactly as thought-provoking as it should be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Solid family entertainment, a handsomely crafted and well-acted new film version of Natalie Babbitt's classic 1975 children's book.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2002

There's no reason it couldn't have been infused with real feeling, instead of just a nice, tidy lesson about the continuity of life and the painfulness of growing up.

| Oct 11, 2002

The movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2002

Together with this spring’s The Rookie, Tuck Everlasting represents Walt Disney Pictures’ best work in years.

| Original Score: B | Oct 11, 2002

Beautifully shot and scored, and its pensive pace is a throwback to Disney's past.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Oct 10, 2002

The movie addresses a hungry need for PG-rated, nonthreatening family movies, but it doesn't go too much further.

Full Review | Oct 10, 2002