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Finding Neverland
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for mild thematic elements and brief language
Starring
Johnny Depp,
Kate Winslet,
Julie Christie,
Nick Roud,
Radha Mitchell,
Joe Prospero,
Freddie Highmore,
and
Dustin Hoffman
A tale of magic and fantasy inspired by the life of James Barrie, the real-life author of the children's classic Peter Pan. (Miramax)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
David Magee
Allan Knee (play The Man Who Was Peter Pan)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Marc Forster
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 22, 2005
Video: March 22, 2005
Theatrical: November 12, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK / USA |
Received seven Oscar nominations for 2004, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (Magee) and Best Lead Actor (Johnny Depp). Winner of the Laterna Magica Prize, 2004 Venice Film Festival.

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Pure magic.

100
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
Depp and Winslet in particular are, as you might expect, immaculate. I don't think there's another actor alive who can convey the intermingling of gentleness and passion with as much precision as Depp.

91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It's a real pleasure to find a movie as calm, measured and dead-on in its impact as Finding Neverland.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's an intellectual family film for literate parents and children, immensely pleasing if not perfect, perhaps a smidgen too brightly evasive and determinedly charming.

88
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The glory of the movie is Depp, who achieves his own immortality.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Surprisingly moving.

88
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Johnny Depp has finally won me over to rabid support after "Neverland" and "Pirates of the Caribbean." He gives the most controlled, least mannered performance of his career, staying sweet and rueful while suggesting unseen emotional depths.

88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Glorious entertainment.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
A rewarding piece of filmmaking that has all the makings of a classic weepie.

80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
An impeccably made and genuinely moving account of how Scottish author J.M. Barrie came to write "Peter Pan."

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
Mingling reality and fantasy, Forster has given us a luminous, touching meditation on life and art.

80
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Gently seductive, genuinely tender and often moving without being maudlin.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Depp is a charm. He becomes his own, subtly compelling Barrie.

78
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
Takes you back to a time in which people children, in particular still created whole worlds in their heads, inventing characters and situations as far away as their flights of fancy would take them.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Because it's a well-crafted and superbly acted sweet little tearjerker, we're content too -- it's a mild pleasure to watch.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Delightful and moving - although fanciful.

75
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The story is told gently and simply without excess sentimentality. It is a welcome departure from more contrived holiday fare.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Depp portrays a fellow who is openly gentle to the core, and the actor just about wraps the movie around his lilting delivery and quiescent gaze.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Compelling and life-affirming.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Forster keeps the picture as a whole in perfect tune with Depp's approach.

70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The film rests on Depp's evocation of Barrie's gentle, playfulness and deeply buried sorrows; it's difficult to imagine another actor so gracefully evoking Barrie's childlike qualities without seeming creepy or emotionally malformed, and only the hard of heart will come away dry-eyed.

70
Chicago Reader
Meredith Brody
The plays and amusements the boys put on--by far the most successfully magical scenes in the movie--inspire Barrie to create his great work, "Peter Pan."

70
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
A worthwhile way to spend some of your precious leisure time, especially in this season of obnoxious cartoons and ham-handed holiday fare.

70
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
We have a whole new reason to appreciate cinema's most creative chameleon (Depp) since Peter Sellers. The film itself is pretty and sweet but a tad soggy.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Handsome, professional and dutiful, but it never feels inspired.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It's a portrait of the artist as Mary Poppins.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Washes over you with an enjoyable gloss, and it might even make you cry a little, but it evaporates in memory like fairy dust.

60
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It just doesn't have the buoyancy, or the resonance, that this kind of semifactual flight of fancy needs.

60
Washington Post
Teresa Wiltz
You're expected to weep, and perhaps you will weep. But if you do, it's not likely that you'll respect yourself in the morning.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Precious and uninsightful but ends beautifully.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A sappy excursion to Edwardian days.

50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Depp and Highmore's final scene together strikes a muted blow of desolation -- bottomless but just bearable -- that Forster rather bravely lets stand as the last word on all the fanciful solace that Barrieland had to offer.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Takes liberties with its hero, which is hardly a crime (the real-life Barrie was extremely childlike), but the movie chases after magic with overproduced fantasy sequences, and a feel-good, literalist climax that betrays the very notion of imagination as a force superior to reality.
50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Surprisingly wan film.

50
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A handsome-looking film about the writer and his unripe inspirations, the actor Johnny Depp neither soars nor crashes, but moseys forward with vague purpose and actorly restraint.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Forster's movie doesn't want to grow up, but it doesn't seem to understand childhood, either. For a film about the life-affirming power of imagination, Finding Neverland displays precious little of its own.

40
Time
Richard Corliss
Finding Neverland takes a big, brave leap and lands splat on the sidewalk.

40
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Dismal and heavy, and the failure rests chiefly with Johnny Depp, who plays Barrie.


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