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The Secret Garden honors its classic source material with a well-acted, beautifully filmed adaptation that doesn't shy from its story's darker themes.
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The result is an instant classic -- rich, dense, resonant, powerful. August 1, 2013
The result is an instant classic -- rich, dense, resonant, powerful.
Jay Carr
While drawing superb performances from her young leads, Holland has masterfully contrasted the garden -- a place where melodic robins seem almost conversant -- with the dread of Misselthwaite. August 1, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
While drawing superb performances from her young leads, Holland has masterfully contrasted the garden -- a place where melodic robins seem almost conversant -- with the dread of Misselthwaite.
Jeff Shannon
The movie's dark themes, unhurried pace and talkiness make it something of a gamble for many children. But older children -- especially those who have been asking specific questions about death -- may find some nourishment in this garden. August 1, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The movie's dark themes, unhurried pace and talkiness make it something of a gamble for many children. But older children -- especially those who have been asking specific questions about death -- may find some nourishment in this garden.
Jay Boyar
This enchanted tale vividly shows how love heals and nurtures barren souls, makes them flourish like abundant Edens. August 1, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
This enchanted tale vividly shows how love heals and nurtures barren souls, makes them flourish like abundant Edens.
Carrie Rickey
Rather than a fresh breeze, it's the stale air of gilded calculation, the uncomfortable feeling that things are excessively "just so," that overhangs much that is genuinely appealing about this film. August 1, 2013 | Full Review…
Rather than a fresh breeze, it's the stale air of gilded calculation, the uncomfortable feeling that things are excessively "just so," that overhangs much that is genuinely appealing about this film.
Kenneth Turan
It's as if the moviemakers were trying to cook up a New Age Yorkshire pudding, without meat drippings -- what's missing is Burnett's robust optimism and animistic energy. August 1, 2013
It's as if the moviemakers were trying to cook up a New Age Yorkshire pudding, without meat drippings -- what's missing is Burnett's robust optimism and animistic energy.
Michael Sragow
Visually, The Secret Garden is enchanting. Working in English for the first time, with Francis Coppola as her executive producer, Agnieszka Holland conjures up a fairy-tale world of images... October 9, 2019 | Full Review…
Visually, The Secret Garden is enchanting. Working in English for the first time, with Francis Coppola as her executive producer, Agnieszka Holland conjures up a fairy-tale world of images...
Brian D. Johnson
The film has charm, without wandering into the realm of magic. November 28, 2017 | Full Review…
The film has charm, without wandering into the realm of magic.
Quentin Curtis
The film retains the gothic atmosphere of the book and looks amazing, thanks to Roger Deakins's scintillating photography. Stealing the show is Maggie Smith as beastly housekeeper Mrs Medlock. August 1, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The film retains the gothic atmosphere of the book and looks amazing, thanks to Roger Deakins's scintillating photography. Stealing the show is Maggie Smith as beastly housekeeper Mrs Medlock.
David Parkinson
That`s a more upscale marketing concept than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but it still doesn't make the movie any good. August 1, 2013 | Full Review…
That`s a more upscale marketing concept than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but it still doesn't make the movie any good.
Bill Kelley
Though it can get laborious, and produces the odd unintended chuckle, The Secret Garden is charming and sometimes chillingly authentic. August 1, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Though it can get laborious, and produces the odd unintended chuckle, The Secret Garden is charming and sometimes chillingly authentic.
Any kids' movie that aims for something richer than the Saturday-matinee escapism of smiling whales and preschool ninjas -- that actually captures some of the mystery of childhood -- ought to be embraced. whatever its peculiarities. August 1, 2013 | Full Review…
Any kids' movie that aims for something richer than the Saturday-matinee escapism of smiling whales and preschool ninjas -- that actually captures some of the mystery of childhood -- ought to be embraced. whatever its peculiarities.
Ralph Novak
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