Harold and the Purple Crayon
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 2, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
13
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
30
We Got This CoveredCharlotte SimmonsAug 5, 2024
Immaturely crafted and an insult to children's media, 'Harold and the Purple Crayon' should have gone back to the drawing board, and perhaps stayed there. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithAug 1, 2024
The charming, gentle simplicity of the book, with its childlike art, has been displaced by a mania for digital images and frantic attempts to be funny. This crayon should have been left in its box. Read full review
30
The New York TimesGlenn KennyAug 1, 2024
The movie plods around awkwardly, trying to leech whatever charm it can from the remaining elements of the original. Read full review
30
IGNAllegra FrankJul 31, 2024
“Random” aptly summarizes Harold and the Purple Crayon, with its patchy subplots, distracting amount of dialogue added after filming was wrapped, and geographic cluelessness. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 1, 2024
The diplomatic thing to do would be to say the new film of Harold and the Purple Crayon is misguided, dull and mostly humorless and leave it at that. Read full review
20
LooperAudrey FoxAug 5, 2024
It's almost impressive that a movie all about the power of imagination could be so creatively bankrupt and incurious about the world, but this misguided kids' film manages to be all that and so much more (or less, depending on your perspective). Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Jen ChaneyAug 2, 2024
Harold and the Purple Crayon makes the classic Hollywood mistake of taking a story that was lovely because of its concision and simplicity and turns it into a movie that is overly long and complicated for no good reason. Read full review
20
The GuardianJesse HassengerAug 1, 2024
Harold and the Purple Crayon is not funny, not insightful about children, and it costs much more time and money to see than simply reading the books that it tries to turn into a meta-text. It makes imagination seem like a garish endurance test. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiAug 2, 2024
Here is a film that pays lip service to the importance of creativity without ever displaying a demonstrable shred of it during its seemingly interminable run time. Read full review
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