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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's a soft-focus picture of a woman who, surely, had a few more hard edges, but it's a thoroughly pleasant escape to another world. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: A scenic, well-behaved account of Potter's life and times. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It will certainly play well with older audiences and the kind of adolescent girls who draw faces in their O's. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: I found it slight but enchanting, which is not the same thing as slightly enchanting. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The twee romance was too much for me. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: This attractive, superficial stab at biography, with Renee Zellweger in the title role, is more concerned with a lonely woman's quest for acceptance and love than with an author's worldly achievements. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Ultimately, we're won over by Beatrix's story. Hers was, as Richard Griffiths says of Thomas Hardy in The History Boys, 'a saddish life, but not an unappreciated one.' Even more appreciated now, thanks to this honest, unassuming little film. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: The film's wholesome, freshly scrubbed tedium suggests literary history drained of life and preserved in formaldehyde. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: If the source material is soft, the film then takes another punch with the casting of Renee Zellweger in the title role. She overflows with tics and twitches that make the author seem vaguely deranged. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Mostly, though, Miss Potter turns the solemn comedy of her books and illustrations into mere whimsy, animating Jemima Puddle-duck into cartoon life whenever Beatrix talks to her. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: The movie is redeemed by excellent performances. McGregor, in particular, lights up the film, and in her scenes with him, when she is not forced to interact with watercolor rabbits, Zellweger seems to wake up from a long, cranky nap. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Known in the United States for her whimsical books, Potter was an ecological champion in the United Kingdom. The film touches on this, but mostly it's a tender tale about yearning hearts and courageous idealism. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Although Zellweger strains a bit too hard at being eccentric, [Ewan] McGregor is entrancingly valorous playing opposite her. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Miss Potter is as seamless, comfortable and tidy as a Peter Rabbit story, all scones and biscuits, quietly punctuated by tolerable naughtiness. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Despite Noonan's balancing social friction and fantasy, Miss Potter entrances and delights throughout. It's a beautifully made fairy tale with roots in reality, and all the more satisfying as a result. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Miss Potter, right to the end, is the definition of a nice movie, and that makes it a genuine oddball in a universe of increasingly distressed and uncivilized pop culture. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Miss Potter is the first movie to be directed by Chris Noonan since Babe, and it has a similar intelligence and grace. Noonan uses the device of having the illustrated animals offer commentary judiciously. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The thinness shows -- there isn't much of a story. Beatrix starts out as a feisty, idiosyncratic, talented gal and, save for a momentary lapse after a brush with tragedy, remains so right to the end of the bunny trail. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: A bit paint-by-numbers, not to torture a pun out of all this, but when the story of Beatrix Potter, spinster book author and happenstance feminist, eventually does take shape, it is an emotionally and even politically potent story. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The photography is as pretty as a Potter watercolor. The style is as stiff as one of her own tiny hardbound books. Half an hour in, and you start looking about in vain for Farmer MacGregor's shotgun. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The overall effect is a solid one-hour love story followed by a dramatized Wikipedia entry. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: All-too-tasteful film, which is apparently aimed at mothers and daughters with far too much time on their hands. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: With Miss Potter, Renee Zellweger has won back that precious thing that stardom rips away and the tabloids won't let you reclaim: her charm. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The love story is beautifully constructed. There's some sentimentality here, but [director Chris] Noonan is careful not to take it too far and to avoid overplaying the audience's emotional chords. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The movie pulls off a neat trick, using animation to show how, when Potter is alone with her animal creations, they leap around on the page or wink at her with unapologetic cheekiness. They're alive, and they're in charge. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Was Potter really the way Renee Zellweger plays her here? Let's hope so. Dreamy, exquisitely sensitive and yet oddly focused, it's a beautiful characterization. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Miss Potter gives us only the bedtime version of the Beatrix Potter story, perhaps appropriately so given the subject matter and target audience, which will likely be captivated by the film's undemanding narrative. Read more
TIME Magazine: ...An honorable and curiously winning film. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: Its old-fashioned sincerity ultimately proves disarming. Sweet but not cloying, it's a heartening portrait of goodness surmounting the odds. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: Unbearably, the script accommodates a quaking courtship between the slightly dotty Potter and her devoted young publisher, ho exchange romantic byplay such as, "You and rabbits -- extraordinary!" and "I recently remembered a story...about a duck!" Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: It is a lovely film for the holiday season, as well as afterward, and is reminiscent of Finding Neverland, without the darker undercurrents. Zellweger does a fine job of fleshing out the plucky character despite the occasional simper. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Unfortunately, much of the pic suggests a quality family film that could have been directed by dozens of other pros. Read more
Ella Taylor, Village Voice: Blackness may have lurked within the Potter heart, but you'd never know it from Miss Potter, which shifts the burden of ill humor onto the authoress's petit-bourgeois mother. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: If the movie is respectful and factually informative, it's also tightly corseted -- in dramatic terms. Read more