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Generally favorable reviews- based on 28 Ratings

  • Starring: Annasophia Robb, Cicely Tyson, Dave Matthews, Eva Marie Saint, Jeff Daniels
  • Summary: Based on the perennial best seller, Because of Winn Dixie tells the story of a lonely young girl who adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie (for the supermarket where she found him). The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small Florida town and heals her own troubled relationship with her father. (20th Century Fox) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 27
  2. Negative: 2 out of 27
  1. Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    88
    Most likely chosen for its shaggy-dog looks, Winn-Dixie is actually a great deal more special than you'd expect, a fitting analogy for a film no parent should be too quick to dismiss.
  2. Reviewed by: Peter Hartlaub
    75
    Matthews holds his own with his experienced co-stars, and his half- talking/half-singing explanation of his criminal past is the movie's best scene.
  3. Reviewed by: Angel Cohn
    60
    A sweet film with no big action moments may be a hard sell to young male audiences, but it's nevertheless a quality story that the whole family can watch together.
  4. Tries hard to be sweet but plays like "Pollyanna" with fleas.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. EricW.
    10
    My daughters took to thid movie like no other they have watched, I guess it is the always yearning women feel about being the ones who control the situation around them, h(loss of wife--duh)ere is a movie thn in pure suffering. Expand
  2. EdgarG.
    10
    Good, wholesome. Read the book as well.
  3. it has a lot of changes that weren't included in the book, but despite that, this movie is absolutely perfect.

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