At its best, Saving Mr. Banks is in that writers’ room, mining differences of opinion for combative comedy; Novak, especially, has the Office-honed chops to make impatience funny.

...Emma Thompson, perfectly cast in every way down to her tightly wound perm...

The story is strongest not in showing Travers’ genesis but the film genesis of her great creation.

The longer the film goes on...the more you realise that Hanks and Thompson are born to play Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

...är underhållande i sin skildring av denna tjurfäktning mellan Disney (Tom Hanks) och Travers (Emma Thompson).

...en sød lille film om to kæmper der kæmper nærmest med livet som indsats for at få deres vilje.

...John Lee Hancocks herligt eskapistiske opvisning i filmisk råhygge, skamløs følelsesporno og klukkende godt humør.

...historien bag Mary Poppins er fascinerende.