My Dog Skip Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Bruce McCabeAdd Critic to Favorites

The film's vintage setting is as much a character as any other. Some of the best moments evoke the best parts of easygoing small town life in a bygone era.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

A movie like this falls outside ordinary critical language. Is it good or bad? Is there too much melodrama? I don't have any idea. It triggered too many thoughts of my own for me to have much attention left over for footnotes.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

A serviceable time-passer for kids, grandparents, and poochophiles.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites

A standard-issue Hollywood family film about a boy and his dog growing up in a Southern small town during World War II.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Peter StackAdd Critic to Favorites

Though its sentiment may be lost on the very young, the movie is strictly two-hanky fare.Read the full review

The New York Times | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

Works best when it sticks with the gentle humor and pathos of its literary source.Read the full review

USA Today | Susan WloszczynaAdd Critic to Favorites

A family movie with a heart and a brain. And if you aren't moved to tears, you might need an organ transplant.Read the full review

Variety | Robert KoehlerAdd Critic to Favorites

Superior family entertainment.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

I had to beg my 8-year-old to stop laughing.Read the full review

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