Meets its main requirements: it adapts a classic novel in gleaming cinematic form, and it ridicules the foibles of ruthless adults.
70
Village Voice
Village Voice
A modest tale intermittently well told.
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
This adaptation of South African writer Olive Schreiner's cult novel is too cute by far, sapping emotional resonance from a story that was in its original incarnation apparently far darker.