| 100 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
This is a sweet, gentle film - slow and sunny like a summer day, with a message that growing up can be hard, but can also serve as the wellspring of memories that will sustain you for a lifetime.
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| 83 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It works because it never tries to be more than the very personal memory piece it is.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
I had to beg my 8-year-old to stop laughing.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
Romantically nostalgic, a love letter to growing up in simpler times.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Bruce McCabe
The film's vintage setting is as much a character as any other. Some of the best moments evoke the best parts of easygoing small town life in a bygone era.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Though its sentiment may be lost on the very young, the movie is strictly two-hanky fare.
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| 75 |
USA Today
A family movie with a heart and a brain. And if you aren't moved to tears, you might need an organ transplant.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
Monica Eng
A film that proves even the tiredest genre can be reinvigorated in the right hands.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A movie like this falls outside ordinary critical language. Is it good or bad? Is there too much melodrama? I don't have any idea. It triggered too many thoughts of my own for me to have much attention left over for footnotes.
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| 70 |
Film.com
But it's the boy and the dog who make My Dog Skip resonate. The formula may be an old one, but it's still a good one.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
Nicole Campos
Adds to the current crop of great kids' fare with a most-welcome old reliable.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
Ty Burr
A serviceable time-passer for kids, grandparents, and poochophiles.
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| 67 |
Portland Oregonian
Atmospheric and genial, and you've got to love the spectacle of a dog driving a car or parading around town like the unofficial mayor.
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| 63 |
Charlotte Observer
It's gently funny, modestly scary in spots, full of valuable but low-key observations about life.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Grows on you like kudzu.
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| 60 |
Dallas Observer
Particularly unsuitable for cinematic adaptation, but when has that ever stopped anyone.
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| 60 |
TNT RoughCut
Bill McLochlin
I wasn't the only one crying in the theatre. Not by a long shot.
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| 60 |
Variety
Superior family entertainment.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Certainly there are people who will welcome this kind of "wholesome" family entertainment, but it feels false.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Robert Faires
A sweet, sweet movie; it's just one that celebrates the bond between a boy and his dog with heart and a heavy, handy hand.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Feels hokey, generic and dated.
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| 50 |
Mr. Showbiz
It plays out like an endless series of scenes we've seen before.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Christine Dolan
A slice of '40s-vintage, small town Mississippi life, full of laughs and sweetness and a sorrow that may send more sensitive little ones home crying.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Works best when it sticks with the gentle humor and pathos of its literary source.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
A standard-issue Hollywood family film about a boy and his dog growing up in a Southern small town during World War II.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
Hokey.
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