The director is able to show the adolescence of the author as an antecedent of what her work would be. [Full Review in Spanish

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2019

Feminist without thick strokes or without fuss in the staging, the film sets its sights on the fixity and the loss of a passionate character. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Mar 29, 2019

A modern, emotional, tender and courageous story. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 25, 2019

Pernille Fischer Christensen crafts an incisive, engaging portrait of the artist as a young woman.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2019

(Alba) August brightens the screen with a performance that begins full of youthful excitement...and then matures right before our eyes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 13, 2019

Anchored by a brilliant performance by Alba August, this is a charming-yet-realistic small gem of a film.

Full Review | Dec 14, 2018

It's more about the evolution of an attitude, a mindset, and a philosophy on life than a single book or character.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2018

Becoming Astrid's saving grace is Alba August. She is in almost every frame of this film, and gives life to what, on paper, amounts to a Lifetime channel biopic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2018

Director and co-writer Pernille Fischer Christensen has crafted a powerful coming of age story that is also a story of how society slowly transforms.

Full Review | Dec 6, 2018

Throughout "Becoming Astrid," August acquits herself brilliantly; the woman we come to know is a tangle of impulses and qualities, and feels vibrantly alive.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 6, 2018

Alba August is incredible as the world-renowned Pippi Longstocking author, but #BecomingAstrid also finds an engaging and completely organic manner of foretelling how outstanding and resonant with children a writer she would become

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2018

Though "Becoming Astrid" is unflinching in its depictions of Astrid's pain, it does not wallow. A shallower story would be rife with villains, but there are none here.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 29, 2018

Pippi Longstocking has sometimes been called an icon of feminist girl-power. If "Becoming Astrid' makes anything clear, it's that the character's creator was something of one herself.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 28, 2018

A mildly engaging, yet heartfelt biopic with a shallow screenplay elevated by Alba August's raw and tender performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5314585/10 | Nov 26, 2018

...[a] soothing and relaxed biopic. Christensen spins a sedate, lyrical coming-of-age tale that showcases the turbulent times of a young girl whose written creativity would ultimately shape the imagination and encourage the inspiration of children

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2018

Astrid's feminist sensibilities provide a compelling perspective on gender politics, while her resilience adds a layer of poignancy.

Full Review | Nov 24, 2018

This film about an exemplary woman, made by women, is as much a pleasure as it is a lesson.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 23, 2018

Hansen's relaxed camera movements and fuzzy-soft compositions are quite beautiful, and the performances - including the superb Trine Dyrholm as the baby's Danish foster mother - are pitch-perfect.

Full Review | Nov 22, 2018

Avoids melodrama to express the emotional ride of Lindgren's life, cutting through manipulation with a deeply felt understanding of personal liberation.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 21, 2018

Christensen portrays Lindgren as a born storyteller but delves into the vital time in her development when confounding expectation gave way to building her own narrative.

Full Review | Nov 21, 2018