A Little Princess
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83

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Universal acclaim- based on 13 Ratings

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  • Summary: A young girl must rely on her wits and imagination when she is separated from her soldier father and sent to a strict boarding school. (Warner Bros.)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    100
    This is a picture that may sound sappy but probably will enrapture audiences lucky enough to catch it. [19 May 1995, p.L]
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    100
    There are moments in A Little Princess--particularly Cuaron's Indian play-within-the-play, which is nearly avant-garde in its conception--when you may just want to clap from pleasure. My advice to you is: Go ahead, you're a grown-up. [26 May 26 1995]
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  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    90
    An astonishing work of studio artifice, A Little Princess is that rarest of creations, a children's film that plays equally well to kids and adults.
  4. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    80
    The virtues on display are very much those of the heroine: generosity, imagination, charm, and the capacity to keep an audience mesmerized with a good story.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Janet Maslin
    80
    Shaking off the solemnity that smothers many a well-meaning, high-minded family film, this one revels in an exuberant sense of play, drawing its audience into the wittily heightened reality of a fairy tale. The material, like the title, is a tad precious, but the finished film is much too spirited and pretty for that to matter.
  6. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    75
    And though the new Little Princess is a far darker affair than the 1939 version, Mexican-born director Alfonso Cuaron doesn't make it anywhere near as drab and moody as Agnieszka Holland's more artistically and commercially successful The Secret Garden.
  7. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    50
    Infused with a dark charm that will appeal to some girls, A Little Princess, based on the classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, is as near to a mannered, lushly photographed Merchant/Ivory-style film as you'll get in a kids' movie.

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  1. DavidS.
    Jan 29, 2008
    10
    This is truly a classic telling of a classic tale, a must see for the whole family. The ending is so poignant that even though I know what�39;s coming, it still chokes me up.… Expand

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