Into the Woods
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: December 25, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
31
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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60
Total FilmJamie GrahamJan 9, 2015
Family entertainment with death, limb-lopping and other horrors. If you go Into The Woods today, you’ll be surprised how faithful this is to the dark stage musical. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeJan 5, 2015
Into the Woods starts better than it finishes but it’s a great-looking film, with a nicely old-school, easy-on-the-CG feel. Read full review
60
EmpireAngie ErrigoJan 5, 2015
There are brilliant, bewitching moments allied to hilarious and touching ones. Just not enough of them in what veers, at length, between the clever, the terrifying and the bit tiring. Read full review
60
The DissolveGenevieve KoskiDec 22, 2014
As a film, Into The Woods is trapped between the stage and the screen, at odds with both its source material and its adopted medium. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDec 20, 2014
Loyal fans of the Sondheim original may feel a bit let down themselves. There’s much to love here. But working with original “Woods” writer and Sondheim collaborator James Lapine, Marshall tones down the crucial dark shading in some places and has trouble with pacing in others. Read full review
58
HitfixDrew McWeenyDec 27, 2014
Whether it's past its pop-culture expiration date or not, Into The Woods deserved a more visually inventive director to help make it work, and instead, we get something that feels somehow reduced by its translation to the screen. Read full review
50
SlateDana StevensDec 27, 2014
The tedium of Into the Woods’ second half has less to do with the downbeat subject matter than Marshall’s clumsy direction. Read full review
50
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezDec 20, 2014
Has its moments, especially any time Streep is on screen, but as it strains on at an overlong two hours, the glitter of fairy tale movie magic diminishes, leaving only a pale shadow. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlDec 16, 2014
Rob Marshall simply cuts from one tale to the next, isolating his actors. There's little sense that the fairytale space is a shared one -- it's just a bunch of noisy incident transpiring in unrelated treestands. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottDec 22, 2014
As strong as that cast and those visuals are, however, they don't quite add up enough to guarantee a happily-ever-after for moviegoers looking for a memorable in-theater experience. Read full review
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