Because of Winn-Dixie Critic Reviews

To Winn-Dixie's great credit, both as a book and as a dandy, dignified movie, there's nothing condescendingly lesson-like in the wisdom India acquires.Read the full review

In pace, sensibility, and big, beating heart, this is a child's first indie film, and it's the better for it.Read the full review

A sweet, family-friendly retelling of a touching and funny Newbery Award-winning children's book.Read the full review

Matthews holds his own with his experienced co-stars, and his half- talking/half-singing explanation of his criminal past is the movie's best scene.Read the full review

Robb is remarkably assured; there isn't a false note in her performance.Read the full review

Uneven though it is, Because of Winn-Dixie, based on Kate Di Camillo's novel, is tough to dislike.Read the full review

A harmless, pleasant comic drama, but elements that may have seemed delightfully eccentric on the page take on unfortunate new tones when translated to film.Read the full review

Never quite works as a film. The failure to create appropriate cinematic metaphors reduces it to "happiness is a warm puppy" superficiality.Read the full review

Sweet and warm-hearted, but there is another film with a similar story that is boundlessly better, and that is "My Dog Skip" (2000).Read the full review