My Family enjoyed it.

Designed for maximum corniness, The Tiger Rising peppers its action with enough references to God, upturned-to-the-heavens gazes and warm enveloping light to make clear its function as a homily.

Nick Schager

Variety

The metaphors are so obvious that the film becomes trapped in its own cage of archetypes and clichés, and unlike the tiger, there is no champion to open the gates to a more original cinematic world.

Teo Bugbee

The New York Times

The script wields its symbolic hammer so heavily that it tends to smother the story’s more authentic emotions.

Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times