Tiger Eyes 2012

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: This attenuated coming-of-age tale oozes heart and perhaps too much respect for its source material. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's a pleasant-enough movie, but offers little that the book doesn't give its readers; far too quickly, it fades away. Read more

Andrew Barker, Variety: In the end, it represents a solid blueprint for a later, better Blume adaptation, but that's hardly anything to scoff at. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: A gentle, honest and shrewdly realized film ... It's worth seeking out. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Remarkably, the story, adapted by Blume with her son, director Lawrence Blume, seems as fresh, painful and poignant as when she wrote it. Read more

Jessica Shaw, Entertainment Weekly: Laughably, amateurishly, and Hallmark-Movie-Channel bad. Read more

Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter: Catnip for the bookish emo demo. Read more

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: A lean, economically told indie that should please fans of the 1981 source novel. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: There are no surprises among the characters - depressed mom (Amy Jo Johnson), controlling aunt (Cynthia Stevenson), new boyfriend (Tatanka Means) - but the cast is strong enough to build on familiar elements. Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: Time has robbed Blume's subjects of shock value, but her perceptiveness hasn't dimmed. The movie's sincerity carries it along, and makes this story endearing despite its filmmaking cliches. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: [Tiger Eyes has] an uncommon intimacy, the kind you find in a Judy Blume novel. Her grit and grace are all over this heartfelt adventure of a movie. She gives it a spirit that soars. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Time Out: Merely an insufferable YA lint trap ... Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: Treating teenage growing pains with a sensitivity that frequently trips into singer-songwriter-ish mushiness, Tiger Eyes nonetheless stands as a respectable first cinematic adaptation of a Judy Blume novel. Read more