Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

It's so innocent. It's really sweet.

This film knows what it's doing vis-à-vis teen movies as well as the sacred text [of the book].

A warm, emotionally agile adaptation of Judy Blume’s much-loved 1970 novel.

It’s nimbly directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, with an occasionally heavy hand of wholesomeness. But Fortson saves the day...

Framed in a Polaroid-style Seventies haze, the mood is Classic Coke ad meets the Wonder Years, a sugary concoction that goes down perfectly.

This lovely film strikes a universal chord.

The film's beautiful and inspiring sensitivity towards its lead, a truly wonderful performance by Abby Ryder Fortson, brought this grown man to happy tears by its end.

Fremon Craig’s film captures the joyful, curious, respectful perspective that has made Blume’s book such a mainstay of contemporary coming-of-age stories because it trusts its middle school protagonists.

All the performances are charming, without being sickly sweet – and with a soundtrack so good...

In its open-handed approach to religion and puberty, Blume's story will entertain and inspire pretty much everyone who sees it.