‘Little Women’ Movie Reviews: Critics Are Calling It ‘Brilliant’
The Hollywood Reporter: “[Gerwig’s] gratifying take on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women brings freshness, vitality, and emotional nuance to source material which has been etched for generations into the popular imagination, shaking up the chronology to reinvigorate the plot’s familiar beats.”
Entertainment Weekly: “Pugh, so good in this year’s Midsommar and Fighting With My Family, brings welcome layers to her willful pigtailed Amy; Cooper, Odenkirk, and Meryl Streep, as the girls’ ornery Aunt March, duly make the most of their small turns…. But it’s Ronan’s fierce, tender Jo who carries nearly every scene she’s in; a fourth Oscar nod for the Irish actress, still somehow only 25, seems both inevitable and earned.”
Los Angeles Times: “This is a film in love with its characters’ passions, a rich and effortlessly vibrant examination of the four March ‘little women’ and the ways…they’re practically bursting with the innocent it’s-happening-right-now joy of being young and alive.”
TheWrap: “In an era in which sentimentality is a seasoning that filmmakers either shun entirely or employ with too heavy a hand, Gerwig crafts a work that is moving without being manipulative. This is a Little Women for the ages.”
Vulture: “It doesn’t just brim with life; it brims with ideas about happiness, economic realities, and what it means to push against or to hew to the expectations laid out for one’s gender.”
USA Today: “A tremendously resonant, sometimes heartbreaking and always entertaining hoot.”
Daily Mail: “What it is, is a joy from start to finish, a ravishingly shot, exquisitely acted emotional roller coaster that at times, I don’t mind admitting, didn’t just activate my tear ducts but had me gurning wildly to stop myself from blubbing audibly.”
Thrillist: “One of the most brilliantly staged adaptations of any literary work. [Gerwig’s] film takes your assumptions and undermines them without ever straying from the text. It somehow acts as both a reappraisal and slight reinvention of Alcott’s work while remaining a gorgeous tribute to it.”
Little Women hits theaters everywhere on December 25, 2019.