Inkheart Critic Reviews

Aims for a blend of whimsy and tingly suspense but botches nearly every spell it tries to cast.Read the full review

For the young people in its demographic wheelhouse, Inkheart packs a welcome amount of entertainment value, creating a genuinely original world of enchantment.Read the full review

It's a shame that by its conclusion the movie feels like just another special-effects-driven story.Read the full review

Inkheart looks good and is well acted but, in the end, it left me indifferent.Read the full review

Not since the thunderous digital onslaughts of "Jumanji" has the big screen seen such too-muchness.Read the full review

Despite abundant talent on both sides of the camera and a bevy of eye-catching supernatural beasties, this f/x-heavy story of a literature-loving father and daughter battling dark forces unleashed from the pages of a rare tome doesn't conjure much in the way of bigscreen magic.Read the full review

Inkheart goes crazy with fairy tale characters popping in and out, all sorts of fantastical creatures materializing and so many rescues one loses count. Yet the movie fails to involve the key constituent: the audience.Read the full review

Mirren's all-out display in this distinctly British absurdo-literary extravaganza had me wishing Elinor were my own fabulous auntie and that she'd lend me some magic items from her closet.Read the full review

Seemingly intended as a celebration of the power of books, it's an occasionally incoherent, sleep-inducing picture that reduces narrative to mere mechanics.Read the full review