Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical
Netflix | Release Date: December 9, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
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7
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1
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Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangDec 26, 2022
For a movie that bristles with more revolutionary fervor than Dahl’s quieter, more inward-focused story, “Matilda the Musical” could use a little messier, more rambunctious energy. Read full review
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The Irish TimesTara BradyNov 28, 2022
Save for some Skittle-coloured CG and cartoon violence, the original West End director Matthew Warchus puts a filmed version of the stage show onscreen. Theatre fans will be delighted; movie fans will wonder where the wide-angle chorus lines went to. Read full review
60
EmpireHelen O'HaraNov 28, 2022
A sugar-fuelled thrill, this boasts a fine young cast and pleasantly pantomime adult roles. It may be too long for younger kids, but tweens are going to love it. Read full review
60
Total FilmNeil SmithOct 6, 2022
A serviceable translation of a theatrical success whose weaker elements are found wherever it veers too widely from its source. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinOct 5, 2022
The team manages to hit most of the right notes with this perky, peculiar adaptation. Or maybe the film has just enough bright shiny objects and tightly synchronized dancing-child chorus lines to stop anyone from caring about all that problematic whatnot. In any case, it mostly works. Read full review
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VarietyGuy LodgeOct 5, 2022
The film, on balance, is cheery, sherbet-colored stuff, bursting with goodwill for all good people. What you remember from it, however, is each scene in which elder malevolence deliciously spoils the party. Read full review
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IndieWireElla KempOct 5, 2022
It’s no crime to have another wholesome heroine for a new generation to look up to, only a shame that this is a sanitized reproduction and slight distortion of one who already existed. Read full review
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