I Capture the Castle Reviews
Roanoke Times (Virginia)
The fancy-pants accents and period costuming make one feel intellectually smug, as if the afternoon had been spent watching a Merchant-Ivory film - only without the tedium of actually sitting through a Merchant-Ivory film.
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| Original Score: 4/5
About.com
Romala Garai is utterly convincing as the smart, wistful girl with the notebook.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
A quirky and handsome family drama that nicely captures the pangs and pleasures of adolescence.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
Kansas City Star
The film is a charmer. It's romantic, funny and satisfying.
Orlando Weekly
Better on set-up than follow-through.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Top CriticIt has just enough charm to be watchable.
| Original Score: 3/5
Des Moines Register
A quirky story about young love in the 1930s and all of its intense aches and longings.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It didn't excite me or hold my interest, though everything about it was modestly successful.
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| Original Score: C+
Las Vegas Review-Journal
... boasts a number of essential, if slightly twisted, fairy-tale elements that give the movie an engaging, slightly otherworldly air -- one that occasionally clashes with, but more often enhances, the all-too-human foibles at its heart.
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| Original Score: B
Nitrate Online
Castle (captures) a coming-of-age story and the changing romantic and economic relationships between family, friends, and paramours. It's a diamond in the rough.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Film Threat
For those of you, men or women, who love, have loved, or will love-this film will have something to say to you.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Cinerina
In a summer full of "summer movies," I Capture the Castle is a fortress reminding you what is most real and important in life is within.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
With eloquent dialogue but scant smoldering passions, the mushy machinations nicely nudge director Tim Fywell's gentle little film.
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| Original Score: A-
Filmcritic.com
Tells romantic truths in a beautiful and indelible way
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
