
Variety
It's not the best film you'll see this holiday season, but this soft, agreeable adaptation of the man-and-his-cat bestseller has its charms.
Full reviewBritish feel-good drama, based on the best selling memoir, about James Bowen - a busker and recovering drug addict who had his life transformed by none other than a stray ginger cat. The cat, Bob, is played in the movie by Bowen's real-life cat, Bob.
It's not the best film you'll see this holiday season, but this soft, agreeable adaptation of the man-and-his-cat bestseller has its charms.
Full reviewWhat works on the page seems slight on screen. That's not to say it isn't life-affirming, it's just not quite the cat's pyjamas.
Full reviewThere's a telly-ish feel to much of A Street Cat Named Bob, an attempt to sanitise life on the streets... But it's impossible to watch a film about a happy-ending story like James and Bob's without a warm glow.
Full reviewContains the feline performance of the year, as the ginger tom Bob (playing himself) becomes the unexpected mascot and saviour of a homeless busker.
Full reviewA completely watchable, occasionally quite moving and very unexpectedly gritty little film.
Full reviewIt's a family film that raises real issues in a sensitive way. And for that it should be praised.
Full reviewWhat is especially honorable about the adaptation is that while it does try to show things literally from Bob's point of view from time to time, it's doesn't over-anthropomorphize him or ascribe to him any mystical or magical powers.
Full reviewHas its heart in the right place but doesn't quite land on a tone to unite hard hitting drama and a cat-based comedy.
Full reviewA Street Cat Named Bob is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and AroVision.
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