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03/17/07
Miss Potter (2006)
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Reviews Counted:120
Fresh:79
Rotten:41
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: A charming biopic with that maintains its sweetness even in sadder moments.
Theatrical Release:05-01-2007
Synopsis: Beatrix Potter has delighted generations of children with her books. But she kept her own private life locked carefully away. Oscar-winning star Renee Zellweger is now bringing her secret story to... [More]
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Emily Watson, Ewan McGregor, Lloyd Owen
Director: Chris Noonan
Reviews for Miss Potter
Top CriticMiss Potter is not a bad film, but it is a more tepid treatment than the facts of her life would seem to call for. Beatrix Potter deserves better.
03/17/07
It's buttoned-up to a fault, as proper as clotted cream, and at times as exciting.
03/16/07
[Zellwegger's and McGregor's] performances bring great joy to this picture, which is slight but satisfying, like a favorite children's book revisited as an adult.
03/16/07
Much as I admire this plucky child of privilege, who was 36 when she became a best-selling author in 1902, I didn't find her life compelling in this version by screenwriter Richard Maltby Jr. and director Chris Noonan.
03/15/07
Even a third-act tragedy can't taint the picture's perpetual cheeriness -- which works fine when Miss Potter functions as a wholesome family film and not so well when it strives for some measure of dramatic heft.
03/15/07
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03/10/07
Top CriticYou have to love a movie in which a little white rabbit literally jumps off the page to excite a writer's imagination, or winks at her to encourage her dreams.
03/09/07
Miss Potter isn’t deep, but it is curiously endearing. Anyone who has ever been charmed by a Potter book will be equally charmed by this cinematic take on her life.
03/09/07
Miss Potter is as seamless, comfortable and tidy as a Peter Rabbit story, all scones and biscuits, quietly punctuated by tolerable naughtiness.
03/09/07
One of those films that commits few egregious errors, but scales few real heights. There is nothing either terribly wrong or keenly right about it. It's tidy, I suppose.
03/09/07
Noonan's depiction of Beatrix's characters, brought to life with whimsical animation, is more lively than the rest of this prim, proper and rarely engaging movie.
03/09/07
If a sorcerer could raise Benjamin Bunny and Flopsy Rabbit from the pages of Potter's books and transform them into human females, the creatures likely would favor Renee Zellweger.
03/09/07
The film offers scant insight into the forces that inspired Potter's phenomenally successful career.
03/08/07
If the source material is soft, the film then takes another punch with the casting of Renée Zellweger in the title role. She overflows with tics and twitches that make the author seem vaguely deranged.
03/08/07
Zellweger and McGregor work well together, and have believable chemistry. In fact, the entire ensemble cast is terrific.
03/08/07
Like firelight, Miss Potter has a warm, golden glow.
03/08/07
With Miss Potter, Renee Zellweger has won back that precious thing that stardom rips away and the tabloids won't let you reclaim: her charm.
03/08/07
Noonan's white-glove treatment is suitably proper and hits what seem to be all of the major markers in Potter's life.
02/21/07
Evokes the emerging Victorian era bourgeois female imagination amid crushing containment and defiant awakening.
02/06/07
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