Ever After Critic Reviews

The radiant Barrymore energizes Cinderella with a tough core of intelligence and wit.Read the full review

Barrymore continues to prove herself as a performer of extraordinary range and charisma, and is simply sublime in the leading role.Read the full review

In this modern retelling of the well-known fable, she is one princess-in-waiting who does not need rescuing by any knight in shining armor. [31 Jul 1998, Pg. N.47]Read the full review

Here, as the little cinder girl, she is able to at last put aside her bedraggled losers and flower as a fresh young beauty, and she brings poignancy and fire to the role.Read the full review

Obviously, Barrymore is not ideally cast outside modern times, but her presence is so good-natured that she makes an audience want to work with her.Read the full review

Tennant takes this familiar material and crafts a charming, captivating motion picture.Read the full review

Between bouts of decisive action, the characters mill around the French countryside (in lovely costumes, to be sure, by Jenny Beavan) as if unsure of which sexual stereotype to bust next.Read the full review

Too much talk, not enough wooing. In the end, Ever After's spell is only half cast. [31 Jul 1998, Pg. 07.E]Read the full review

While it's difficult to dislike what this film tries to do, the way it does it is more problematic.Read the full review