film.avclub.com August 3, 2018 Chances are you’ve seen seen this all before. But at least this time, you’re seeing it with Pooh.
RogerEbert.com August 3, 2018 Christopher Robin can’t reconcile its darkness and its light.
Director Marc Forster stitches together a lovingly overstuffed comedy that reflects the best and worst of its hero.
Financial Times August 15, 2018 The story is cleverly worked.
filmcomment.com September 27, 2018 Although it lacks the sustained, crazy logic of a first-rate flight of imagination, it’s still witty and affecting.
It all hangs from a pitch-perfect performance by McGregor, who does as much to breathe life into his old friends as anyone. He believes that t...
Slant Magazine August 3, 2018 Unlike the red balloon that Pooh follows through much of the running time, Marc Forster’s film lacks lightness.
Detroit News August 3, 2018 Christopher Robin shows it’s not easy to update a classic. In this case, doing nothing would have been the best thing to do.
New Yorker August 24, 2018 It’s a delicious movie to see in these last, lazy days of August, when summer has slowed not quite to nothingness but at least to the bl...
It takes awhile to get going but, still, it’s rather sweet.
The word "charm" doesn’t apply to very many movies these days, but it’s precisely that quality-and an avoidance of treacly sentiment-th...
Globe and Mail August 3, 2018 Christopher Robin is not a naked cash grab, just a prettily clothed one.
The Guardian August 17, 2018 For all the expensive honey drizzled over this script, Forster’s film is just unpersuasively weird for an hour, before it tails off in the so...
A better title for this entry, the first of the Disney Poohs to be live action (although neither word in that phrase is an apt descriptor), would b...
812filmreviews August 26, 2018 Marc Forster’s Christopher Robin is genuinely fun and charming.
Village Voice August 7, 2018 The modesty, the unfussy simplicity, of Christopher Robin feels different, and somewhat refreshing.
The computer animation is phenomenal and there are certain moments when it is very evident that this idea had potential but ultimately the lack of...
The movie mostly works – a fleeting reminder of the simple pleasures of hanging out with family and a talking bear, which, in these frene...
Chicago Tribune August 2, 2018 Movies about saying goodbye to childhood friends, and finding them again, work on our emotional defenses like nothing else.
MovieFreak.com August 3, 2018 This movie touched my soul, speaking a language that swept me back to my own childhood days.
[If you] found your old favorite stuffed toy, would you take it home and begin sleeping with it again? Christopher Robin more or less believes that...
Simple. Sweet. Effective. And it’s always nice to revisit the Hundred Acre Wood.
The Atlantic August 4, 2018 It’s an odd, melancholic experience that at times recalls Terrence Malick as it does A. A. Milne, but there will certainly be some viewe...
News.com.au September 13, 2018 It’s a heavy-handed, unsatisfying experience. A more apt title would be Melancholy and the Infinite Childhood.
The Australian September 21, 2018 A charming imagining of the adult life of the boy from the Hundred Acre Wood.
Not all of the film’s quirks are given a proper resolution, but they don’t need to be. It has an honest emotional landscape, which...
Mostly it’s all just a bit too easy.
The lessons Christopher must learn – don’t work too hard, hold your most cherished memories close, love your family and friends above al...
If you’re looking to Christopher Robin for an uplifting and charming romp through the Hundred Acre Wood, you will be bitterly disappointed.
Movies like Christopher Robin don’t come around that often any more, and they’re good for the soul.
Every last honey drop of bumbling charm is extracted from Winnie-The-Pooh in this appealing live action outing…
New Yorker August 13, 2018 This takeoff on the children’s-book series refreshingly balances sweet and bitter tones; Pooh’s innocence irritates Christopher before...
New York Times August 3, 2018 Once Christopher Robin softens its insufferable, needlessly cynical conception of the title character, it offers more or less what a Pooh rebo...
Toronto Sun August 3, 2018 Christopher Robin pricks the surface, and it’ll certainly leave you with the warm and fuzzies, but the story sticks a little too closely...
Boston Globe August 3, 2018 What’s so satisfying about these telegraphed messages is the earnest, old-fashioned charm that McGregor and longtime Pooh voice actor Jim Cum...
Poo is too kind a word to describe the flat, gray nature of Disney’s reenvisioned Hundred Acre Wood and the trademarked bland anonymity...
The Guardian August 20, 2018 It’s difficult to know who this downbeat film is for exactly.
Irish Times August 17, 2018 An unexpected sense of existential dread hangs over much of the confusing action.
Sight & Sound August 17, 2018 Christopher Robin bobs along agreeably, a mellow, often melancholy and entirely diverting job of work that keeps the spirit of the characters intact.
It’s just an earnest tribute, tastefully faithful to the source – and flatter, somehow, than the story ever was on the page.
Vanity Fair August 3, 2018 There is undeniably one truly great something in the film. Someone go plead Jim Cummings’s case to the Academy, for real.
Toronto Star August 3, 2018 Christopher Robin may be gloomier than past Pooh pursuits, but its message of personal redemption is considerably deeper.
Chicago Reader March 4, 2020 In the right hands, this might have been great.
Independent August 15, 2018 Some of the dialogue is witty and surprisingly poignant.
The film is charming, even with the usual Disney paw prints on the themes. Forster handles the comedy with skill and the sentiment with restraint.
guidelive.com August 3, 2018 Sometimes the timing of a good story is everything, and this particular story comes at a time when the world at large needs a little more...
Christopher’s lengthy two-hander scenes with Pooh quickly wear out their welcome; what at first is agreeably amusing shortly becomes grating...
There’s no end to the schmaltz in Winnie the Pooh’s honey pot, yet Disney’s live-action Christopher Robin also tosses in enough c...
It won’t make you love the silly old(er) bear any less, but you can feel a tiny part of your childhood dying in the process.
The joy of reconnecting to your own inner child and to your family is not just the theme of "Christopher Robin." It is the experience of watch...
Daily Telegraph August 17, 2018 The film is a joy to spend time in, rather than with – its pleasures are largely Pinterest-like – although McGregor throws himself g...
Times (UK) August 17, 2018 To say that 'Christopher Robin' is confused is an understatement.
Rolling Stone August 3, 2018 It’s a superior model of library-card nostalgia.
The only way to completely and totally enjoy Christopher Robin is to not think about the Disney corporation.
If you missed Disney’s last dip into Milne – the 2011 animated feature Winnie the Pooh – it’s sweet and moving and...
Christopher Robin is something of an oddity -- a kid’s movie that plays stronger to adults. But sometimes, it’s a risk worth...
Although the film drags with a too-long escapade through the streets of London and sometimes trips over its predictability, there is a sw...
Like ‘Finding Neverland,’ full of melancholy and a wan approximation of the whimsical spirit of its literary inspiration.
Paste Magazine August 3, 2018 Sentimentality as thick and sticky-sweet as Winnie the Pooh’s beloved honey coats Christopher Robin, a paean to your inner child that’s...
A gently sweet film which, without realising its early melancholic promise, aims a little higher than the bear necessities required of a Disne...
An overstuffed plot can’t deter from the size of this film’s heart.