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Critics Reviews: 7 out of 10
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Boston Globe
Perversely, fans of Katherine Paterson's 1977 young adult novel "Bridge to Terabithia " -- and they're legion -- will be cheered by the news that the Very Sad Thing that happens three-fourths of the way into the book also happens in the movie, no matter how happy and peppy the trailers appear.
Ty Burr
Chicago Sun-Times
"Bridge to Terabithia" is all about meeting your first best friend, and holding on to that friendship with all your might. It's about childhood, about playing and running and just being a kid, with all the pitfalls and pratfalls, with all the joy and the pain. It's about real life.
Miriam Di Nunzio
Reelviews
Bridge to Terabithia is an example of a movie that does not deliver what the marketing campaign promises. Instead, it delivers something richer and more meaningful.
James Berardinelli
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
If anything, the movie -- like the book -- deals ever respectfully with questions about guilt and mourning and those dark masters that pervade a child's life and seem bigger than they do to an adult.
Paula Nechak
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