Christopher Robin
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: August 3, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 43 Critic Reviews
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24
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19
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
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CineVueBen NicholsonAug 15, 2018
Besides the overt journey for Christopher Robin of rediscovering some childhood joy, this film is a poignant exploration of the way in which we sideline important friendships at the behest of professional advancement. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneDavid FearAug 6, 2018
Every time things start to get goopy, we get silent-comedy slapstick like Pooh destroying the Robins’ household. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushE. Oliver WhitneyAug 2, 2018
There may be plenty of charming, classic Pooh-isms sprinkled throughout Christopher Robin, but the film just can’t manage to bring the same level of poignance and wisdom to its own story. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredLuke ParkerAug 2, 2018
The fuzzy residents of the 100-Acre Wood cutely convert to the real world in Christopher Robin, a mildly entertaining film that'll remind kids and grown-ups alike of the fun that can be had in doing absolutely nothing important. Read full review
58
Original-CinJim SlotekAug 2, 2018
As a movie for adults, Christopher Robin has rewards, but needn’t have been so antic. The schmaltz would have sufficed. As a movie for children, well… Read full review
52
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeAug 2, 2018
It’s a slow, sluggish and whimsy-deficient movie that seems designed to entertain neither children nor adults, and the film’s script opens a Pandora’s Box of a plot twist. Read full review
50
Paste MagazineTim GriersonAug 3, 2018
Very rarely do you get the sense that anyone involved in Christopher Robin had a really strong take on the material or an innate understanding of why these characters have resonated for nearly a century. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonAug 3, 2018
Because Disney wants your money, of course. I don’t begrudge their need for greed; I just wish they hadn’t given us yet another movie built on the pseudo-psychological cliché that adults need to reconnect with their childhoods in order to be better adults. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineNiles SchwartzAug 3, 2018
Unlike the red balloon that Winnie the Pooh follows through much of the running time, Marc Forster's film lacks lightness. Read full review
50
ConsequenceBlake GobleAug 2, 2018
The pleasure of good company is Robin’s occasionally winning quality. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorAug 2, 2018
No, Christopher Robin is not a naked cash grab, just a prettily clothed one. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAug 2, 2018
Christopher's lengthy two-hander scenes with Pooh quickly wear out their welcome; what at first is agreeably amusing shortly becomes grating, then just tedious. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 2, 2018
The whole affair feels like a desperate, big-budget response to last year’s far superior and non-Disney “Goodbye, Christopher Robin.” Read full review
40
The GuardianMike McCahillAug 20, 2018
For all the expensive honey drizzled over this script, Forster’s film is just unpersuasively weird for an hour, before it tails off in the softest of focuses. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottAug 3, 2018
It's still, however, a long way from the Hundred Acre Wood that most "Pooh" fans remember so fondly. Read full review
40
IGNWilliam BibbianiAug 3, 2018
A formulaic and depressing motion picture that takes meaningful characters and strips them of their reason to exist. Read full review
40
EmpireHelen O'HaraAug 2, 2018
Everyone’s trying hard, but they can’t quite live up to the particularly gentle, warm tone of Pooh himself. Unlike the bear of very little brain, this is a film pulled in different directions with entirely too many thoughts in its head. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeAug 2, 2018
The movie basically ingratiates itself with kids by scolding adults for losing track of what’s important, and yet, both in the 1930s and today, a responsible father doesn’t really have the option of quitting his job. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaAug 2, 2018
It is one of the more sadistic family films I have ever seen, a picture of the residents of a neglected childhood reckoning with the abandonment of their beloved, now grown-up human leader. Read full review
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