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"Young Elle Fanning may make you wish there were an Oscar category for four-year-olds."
- Nantucket Film

"New kid screen star Elle Fanning gives a devastatingly intelligent performance as Ruth."
- 24.com Movies

"The real star here is Elle Fanning. Like her extremely talented sister Dakota, both girls are in the single digit ages with more talent than most adults. Fanning is the one endearing and sympathetic character and she commands her role perfectly."
- HomeTheatreInfo.com

"Outstanding, too, is Elle Fanning (Dakota's little sister) as Ruthie, the four-year-old daughter who was conceived with the hope of filling in the void left by the boys' deaths."
- HollywoodVideo.com

"Then there's Elle Fanning, even more of a preternatural old soul than her elder sister Dakota and possibly just as talented. To put it bluntly, she will freak you out."
- AboutFilm.com

"[Elle] Fanning is the spitting image of her older sister Dakota, and it looks like she is following her sister's footsteps in the acting chops department as well."
- EntertainYourBrain.com

"Elle Fanning proves the equal of her older sister Dakota when it comes to portraying wide-eyed cute blonde moppets who are wise beyond their years. (What a strange family that must be)."
- London Movie Review

"Elle Fanning, younger sister of Dakota, is perfectly believable without undue precocity."
- KillerMovies.com

"Wise beyond her years is the expressive little Elle Fanning, who seems to have more on the ball than most of the adults around her."
- BocaNews

"Elle Fanning [is] never merely cute, and an even more charismatic presence than her older sister Dakota."
- MovieCity News

"The central or linking character in Irving's novel is Ruth, conceived by her parents, Ted and Marion Cole, in an attempt to replace their two teenage sons who died in an accident several years ago. She's played by a miraculous child called Elle Fanning."

"The only character who becomes genuinely sympathetic is little Ruth and she is guaranteed to steal hearts away."
- CultureVulture

"Elle Fanning, an old soul in a young body."
- JamMovies

"...Fanning has the same startling poise and maturity as her sister, the star of 'I Am Sam'."
- MSNBC.com

"[While] the even younger Elle Fanning proves herself to be much cuter and more tolerable than her older sister Dakota. She is responsible for some of the movie's most memorable moments..."
- Comingsoon.net

"Fanning, like her older sister Dakota, has an eerie ability to appear serene and wholly present, but the movie, unlike the book, isn't about her."
- Metromix Movie Review

"Fanning (younger sister of Dakota) also impresses as a curious, questioning child with an old soul, played without affectation or cuteness."
- Variety Magazine

"And, how does a four year old stay so totally in her role's reality while so much adult confusion and errors threaten to distort her early understanding of the world? There is something about natural talent and little Elle Fanning has it in mesmerizing abundance. Not a false note to the little character."
- Variagate.com

"The pallor over their seaside household has forced their 4-year-old daughter, Ruth (Elle Fanning, Dakota's equally capable little sister), to grow up fast."
- The Hollywood Reporter

"...[Marion's] young daughter (an unnerving Elle Fanning - the spitting image of older sister Dakota), who gawks at her dead brothers' memento moris as if she were trying to unlock the myth of fingerprints represented by the film's title.
- Slant Magazine

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