To my ten-year-old daughter, the term “American Girl” means “that store my meanie of a mom — unlike all the other, higher-quality moms — won’t let me go near.” While we’re on the defensive, why should ...

So at least "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" has a lot more on its mind — and a much more beneficial message for girls — than last summer's candy-coated movie-based-on-a-doll, ...

To my 10-year-old daughter, the term “American Girl” means “that store my meanie of a mom—unlike all the other, higher-quality moms—won’t let me go near.” While we’re on the defensive, why should I?

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Refreshingly sincere and full of wholesome can-do spirit, the first big-screen incarnation of the American Girl doll-and-book series -- the anti-Bratz of ...

"Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," the first big-screen film based on one of the dolls, opens here Wednesday, July 2. My daughter is excited, and, frankly, so am I. In today's Post-Standard I write ...

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If nothing else, the makers of "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" have great timing. The movie about the Great Depression arrives in theaters at a time when the country is in a recession that some say ...

Considering that it is inspired by one of the dolls in the American Girl product line, "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" is some kind of a miracle: an actually good movie. I expected so much less. I ...

Sweet, old-fashioned and sentimental to a fault, “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” is “Nancy Drew” with training wheels. It’s a moist-eyed children’s comedy-drama that dares to ask how much today’s ...

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" was brewed in a marketers' cauldron by evil warlocks who use words like "synergy" and "branding" and "cross-platform marketing." Usually, when art is used to serve ...