The Railway Children Return

"It’s ploddingly predictable stuff."

"The bedrock appeal of the entire project, besides a plethora of grounded youth performances... is its unapologetic embrace of the old-fashioned storytelling tropes."

"As a feature, it all feels very rushed and dramatically inert..."

"The story is sincere but simplified..."

"It’s a sweet, touching tale, with moments of nicely judged, age-appropriate peril..."

"It’s a shame... that the film goes so hard on pushing the myth of a progressive England that it sells its primary audience short."

"(It piles) nostalgia upon nostalgia upon nostalgia into a triple-layered Victorian sponge of particularly English sweetness..."

"The new film is a plodding affair, characterised more by fastidious set dressing than by narrative tension."

"Spirited..."

"If this picture never quite recaptures the charm and innocence of the five-star original, it succeeds in evoking its spirit."