A Little Princess

I’d advise all parents, even all grown-ups: Go.

Soppy and girlish in the extreme, this should keep even the tiniest viewer rapt, while all too many adults may fall victim to an inexplicable bout of eye-watering long before the closing credits.

The film uses studio resources to create an entrancing world both in New York and in the heroine's fantasies about India.

An astonishing work of studio artifice, A Little Princess is that rarest of creations, a children's film that plays equally well to kids and adults.

An exemplary version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel.

A bright, beautiful and enchantingly childlike vision.

One of the most well-crafted, magical family films ever made

Purely innocent, whimsical, and imaginative.

One of the very best children's movies of the past quarter-century.

This new version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic boasts first-rate production values and a political sensitivity befitting the '90s, but it doesn't quite capture the magic of the 1939 Shirley Temple vehicle.