Penelope

Aimed at tweenage girls and mushy romantics of all age and stripe, Penelope has a quick gait and a nice comic tone.Read Full Review »

Anyone willing to tolerate the tortured premise of the story will be paid off handsomely by several winning performances and a moral that makes most of the absurdity worthwhile.Read Full Review »

Though the film has a strong cast, humor and a satirical take on celebrity culture, the story is spotty.Read Full Review »

It's not the best of modern fairy tales but it's sincere and Christina Ricci's earnest and vulnerable performance touches the heart. Penelope is flawed but not irredeemably so.Read Full Review »

Ricci is appealingly human, and some acknowledgement of the importance of female friendship, in addition to romance, is faintly touching.Read Full Review »

There's no real rigor or craft applied to this story -- just mood, tone, neo-gothic imagery and frantic attitude. If only Penelope knew what it truly wished to be and how to go about it. Which is probably what this overly coy fantasy's modestly appealing title character wishes as well.Read Full Review »

Too heavy on applied charm and too flimsy when it comes to plot. The picture has a hapless, meandering quality that's tolerable at first but ultimately becomes maddening, as if it were a cartoon narrative recounted by a distracted 4-year-old.Read Full Review »

Penelope is dead on arrival.Read Full Review »

This story could have gone in a number of more inspiring allegorical directions but winds up your average bedtime story instead.Read Full Review »

A hopeless jumble of visual and linguistic styles.Read Full Review »