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A family-friendly primer on the cycle of life that's careful to not overplay the inherent sentiment.
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
"Charlotte's Web," the endearingly enduring 1952 E.B. White novel about friendship and salvation, has been turned into a beautifully rendered motion picture that's full of warmth, wit and wonder...

A sorely disappointing screen adaptation
Todd McCarthy
Variety
E.B. White's book is "Charlotte's Web" the classic; Paramount and Walden Media's film is "Charlotte's Web" the commodity. A sorely disappointing screen adaptation of one of the most artful and widely read children's books of the past century, this highly polished picture is superficially faithful, even reverential to its source, but evinces neither imagination nor a personality of its own. Given the property, big-name cast and film's inoffensive nature, however, it would be hard for this pic to miss commercially with general audiences over the holidays...

Live-action Charlotte's Web pic does not screw up
Jessica Grose
Village Voice
Breathe easy: Gary Winick's new, live-action Charlotte's Web pic does not screw up one of the seminal works of American children's literature. In fact, the film manages to modernize this classic tale without losing the gravity and essential dignity of animals grappling with mortality. Winick skillfully undercuts the seriousness of the subject matter (Wilbur, the porcine protagonist, is essentially on death row for the entirety of the film) with contemporary sarcasm and a liberal dose of potty humor...

Heart-tugging
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
Corny? Overly simplistic? Perhaps. But those were grown-ups snuffling and wiping away tears at a recent screening — not kids — as the story reaches its heart-tugging conclusion. And there's no shame in that...