San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

In every way, Miss Potter is a very beautiful thing.

Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow

It's first-class entertainment for bookish lads and lasses of all ages - and for those who never have or never will crack a paperback's spine. And it might inspire today's nascent artists to open up their sketch-pads as well as their hearts and minds.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

In addition to being a beloved author and illustrator, Beatrix is also presented as an early feminist and environmentalist who took control of her literary empire and saved vast acres of luscious farmland from greedy developers, eventually bequeathing property to Britain's National Trust.

USA Today by Claudia Puig

It is a lovely film for the holiday season, as well as afterward, and is reminiscent of "Finding Neverland," without the darker undercurrents.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

With its lack of pretensions, Miss Potter is that rare breed of cinematic animal: a movie whose entire goal is to entertain and perhaps apply a gentle touch to the heart.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

Miss Potter, right to the end, is the definition of a "nice" movie, and that makes it a genuine oddball in a universe of increasingly distressed and uncivilized pop culture.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold

In many ways, a magical little movie in its own right, and a thoroughly pleasant experience.

Time

The director, Chris Noonan, doesn't play to our sentiments, he just lets them naturally evolve--even the animation of a few of her (Potter's) drawings doesn't feel especially forced. The result is an honorable and curiously winning film.

Salon by Stephanie Zacharek

A very gentle-spirited picture, but it's not a self-consciously precious one.

Time by Richard Corliss/Richard Schickel

The director, Chris Noonan, doesn't play to our sentiments, he just lets them naturally evolve--even the animation of a few of her (Potter's) drawings doesn't feel especially forced. The result is an honorable and curiously winning film.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Endearing without being especially engaging.

Empire by Angie Errigo

Pitched awkwardly -- neither for children nor cool young adults -- it's very sweet, very nice and just the thing for a girlie matinée with mum and nan.

Variety by Robert Koehler

Renee Zellweger, in another Blighty role, struggles to make Beatrix credible.

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

The problem confronting writer Richard Maltby Jr. and director Chris Noonan is that Potter lived a fairly uneventful life once you remove her success as an author.

Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano

The movie is at once a flagrant piece of kitsch and an unexpectedly affecting story about an individual overcoming personal tragedy and brutally restrictive circumstances by talent and force of will.

Village Voice

By most accounts, Potter was a serious workaholic monomaniacally devoted to the purity of her vision. Undaunted, Noonan and Maltby are determined to squeeze her life into a run-of-the-mill romance in which love heals all wounds.