Miss Potter
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: December 29, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
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Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The problem confronting writer Richard Maltby Jr. and director Chris Noonan is that Potter lived a fairly uneventful life once you remove her success as an author. Read full review
60
VarietyRobert Koehler
Renee Zellweger, in another Blighty role, struggles to make Beatrix credible. Read full review
60
EmpireAngie Errigo
Pitched awkwardly -- neither for children nor cool young adults -- it's very sweet, very nice and just the thing for a girlie matinée with mum and nan. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Miss Potter hardly deserves ridicule. It's sweet with lovely Lake District vistas and a heartfelt endorsement of land conservation. It will certainly play well with older audiences and the kind of adolescent girls who draw faces in their O's. Read full review
50
Village VoiceElla Taylor
By most accounts, Potter was a serious workaholic monomaniacally devoted to the purity of her vision. Undaunted, Noonan and Maltby are determined to squeeze her life into a run-of-the-mill romance in which love heals all wounds. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
The movie is at once a flagrant piece of kitsch and an unexpectedly affecting story about an individual overcoming personal tragedy and brutally restrictive circumstances by talent and force of will. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
"Potter" periodically brings Zellweger's charming drawings to life in elegantly animated sequences that are as delightful and lyrical as the rest of the film is stilted and clumsy. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
This attractive, superficial stab at biography, with Renée Zellweger in the title role, is more concerned with a lonely woman's quest for acceptance and love than with an author's worldly achievements.
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
This much sweetness and light in a movie is all very well. But there's a reason that recipes for cake and cookies call for a pinch of salt. In Miss Potter, there is only a grain or two -- not enough to dilute the sugary overload. The film is the cinematic equivalent of a delicate English tea cake whose substance is buried under too many layers of icing. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The twee romance was too much for me, though the movie's first half follows in fascinating detail the innovations Warne introduced to popularize illustrated picture books for children. Read full review
50
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Zellweger is certainly likable as Beatrix, but as an upper-class English lady of a century ago, she enunciates her words as if sucking a lemon -- you almost start to wonder if you've stumbled into a satire of "Masterpiece Theatre." Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Zellweger dusts off her Bridget Jones accent - and a constellation of annoying vocal and facial tics - for Miss Potter, an unrelentingly mediocre, TV-movieish biopic of beloved children's author Beatrix Potter. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The immediate problem with making a movie based on Potter's life is that it doesn't seem to have been very interesting. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleJosh Rosenblatt
Miss Potter is, in the end, a confection, a trip through the imagination on gossamer wings. Enchanting, perhaps, but a long, long way from meaningful. Read full review
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