Kit Kittredge: An American Girl: Critic Reviews

A gently thoughtful, audience-appropriate entertainment that assembles swell actors to play colorful characters who don't shy away from depicting serious hard times.

This classy, heart-on-its-sleeve movie is packed with laudable life lessons and Depression-era trivia.

Though predictable and unabashedly sentimental, the film is a warmly appealing tale of a bright girl bravely navigating tough times.

The tweener girls for whom it is aimed deserve better. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

There's nothing remotely cool about Kit Kittredge. That's why it's cool.

While the script feels a little stiff and moralistic at times, it's hard to fault a film with such an intelligent, good-hearted heroine.

It's not only fresh and unassuming, but a film that serves, very nicely, the severely underserved audience of young girls.

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is rife with feisty, generous pleasures.

Considering that it is inspired by one of the dolls in the American Girl product line, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is some kind of a miracle: an actually good movie.

I predict with great confidence that the big-screen debut of the American Girl brand will be a resounding success. This rosy prediction is based partly on the fact that Kit Kittredge is a solidly made movie...and partly on the fact that the America

The edifying lesson -- that helping others brings out the best in us -- should sit well with everyone.

Smart, empathetic, fun loving and, best of all, a delight for all audiences.

This tale of a little girl's determination and grit during the Depression is an honest-to-goodness family movie, one that parents and children can enjoy equally and together.

The movie and its pint-size star clear all hurdles subtly and valiantly with a surplus of charm, saving Kit Kittredge: American Girl from blandness and turning it into one of the summer's most pleasing surprises.

Plucky, likable and determined to succeed, much like its heroine, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is a throwback to the kinds of movies they don't make anymore.

One of the 10 best American movies released so far this year, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is the surprisingly satisfying first theatrical film inspired by a long-running series of historically themed dolls.

For what it is and for whom it's intended (young children), Kit Kittredge works and works wonderfully.

Kit Kittredge is a gentle-spirited movie that also acknowledges the fact that we can't -- and shouldn't -- protect kids from everything.

Refreshingly sincere and full of wholesome can-do spirit.

The packaging looks good for the most part. But there's still some assembly required.

It appeals to kids while evoking genuine emotion without excessive sentimentality.

Mostly, Kit Kittredge is exactly what you'd expect -- a treacle-sweet, simplistic story about maintaining a stiff upper lip in the face of adversity, keeping your family together, and not judging a book by its cover.

What could have been an oasis of quiet, thought provoking nostalgia turns out to be an utter bore. Yes, it's family friendly but it's also entertainment exterminating.