The BFG

When the BFG takes Sophie to Dream Country, or when she’s discovering his laboratory, the film is at its most visually vicarious.

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A touch of touristic uncertainty as to place and time can’t hobble this beautifully wrought, London-set adaptation of the Roald Dahl story, which reunites Mark Rylance and Steven Spielberg after Bridge of Spies.

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Steven Spielberg’s version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book has dazzling effects and a measured pace.

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This ambitious blend of live action and computer animation runs the risk of being overwhelming and sterile, but it turns out to be a pleasing and sweet-natured adventure thanks in large part to Spielberg’s big, friendly secret weapon: Mark Rylance, as the BFG himself.

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Steven Spielberg conjures a little magic for 'BFG'.

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Much of The BFG, perhaps a little too much, is devoted to watching Sophie madly scurry away from the giants; it’s a beautifully rendered chase but still just a chase. When the movie slows down to allow Rylance and Barnhill to converse, it finds its magic.

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Even if it doesn’t quite reach the summit of Spielberg classics like “E.T.,” this is still well worth seeing for Rylance and some of the year’s most beguiling screen images — from the BFG trying to camouflage himself in the London streetscape to an utterly mesmerizing visit to Dream Country that fans will be replaying for decades.

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Full of such quietly inventive visual magic, it's perfectly content to simply revel in the stuff dreams are made of.

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Parents looking for a 21st-century E.T. to share with their kids are bound to be a bit disappointed even as their eyes are dazzled.

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Spielberg does Roald Dahl in this take on the author's novel about a girl and BFF giant.

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'The BFG' review: Oscar-winner Rylance delightful to watch in Spielberg adaptation.

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Not even Steven Spielberg can make The BFG a good fit for the big screen.

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CGI loses the day in Steven Spielberg’s The BFG, a partly motion-captured, eco-minded adaptation of Roald Dahl’s adored children’s book that leans so heavily on green-screen trickery that even Mark Rylance’s kind eyes — squinting out from that computer-generated abyss — can’t save it from mediocrity.

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A lauded Shakespearean actor and adapter who won an Oscar last year for his collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on "Bridge of Spies," Rylance portrays the body (via motion-capture) and certainly soul of this gentle giant. In his mournful, lyrical cadence, he makes poetry out of the BFG’s gobbledygook command of English.

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Roald Dahl’s beloved ad­ven­ture tale about a brave little girl who befriends the titular Big Friendly Giant, finds Steven Spielberg in his natural element of childlike enchantment, yet also strangely out of step, his trusted sense of narrative propulsion and pacing occasionally failing him in a saggy, draggy second act.

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Rylance is the perfect choice for this gentle, humble creature.

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The BFG was all anticipation of a different kind, leading to a massive letdown.

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A thematic but not creative match of 'E.T.'

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For a movie about dreams, this really lacks a powerful vision.

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