When Ramona's upbeat dad Robert loses his job, the family--including her teenage sister Beezus, and their practical-minded mother--must make major adjustments, like Dad learning how to run the house.

I’ve noticed a lot of nuances and subtleties about the storyline and characters. This time, I thought a lot more about Beezus (Selena Gomez, “Another Cinderella Story”) and how this period of her life ...

In "Ramona and Beezus," that precocious 9-year old who always finds herself smack in the center of a problem is brought to llife on the big screen by the perfectly cast Joey King. Teen sensation ...

Ramona and Beezus, a sunny and guileless G-rated confection ... The resulting story is a jumble, and there are too many side characters, but golly if it isn't pretty darned infectious.

Despite the marketing of Gomez, Beezus is a secondary character here, behind incorrigible Ramona (the very expressive pixie Joey King) and her hiccups of imagination, which are often expressed on ...

While its cast — including newcomer Joey King as Ramona and Selena Gomez as her older sister Beezus — delivers uniformly breezy performances, most everything else about Ramona’s move to the ...

Big sister Beezus (Disney Channel star Selena ... Author Cleary began the “Ramona” books in 1955, taking the character from a 4-year-old precocious tot through age 10 by the end of the eighth ...

Beezus has a BOWL CUT ... not an appropriate venue for a Miley Cyrus-esque teen anthem. 4. Ramona’s parents do not resemble characters from “Sex and the City.” 5. Ramona does not frolic ...

It’s so sentimental and sweet that you can almost forgive the kids’ comedy Ramona and Beezus for not being funny enough. This adaptation of author Beverly Cleary’s beloved 1950s novels about ...

Now she's the focus of a new movie, Ramona and Beezus. In a revival of NPR's 'In Character' series, Elizabeth Blair takes a look at Beverly Cleary's most beloved creation.

It won’t bother them that a character’s hair gets awkwardly ... which is sad given the strength of the source material. “Ramona and Beezus” is based on Beverly Cleary’s beloved children ...

Ramona and Beezus is a lighthearted family comedy based ... That's because the ensemble cast is strong, starting with King and Gomez, and proceeding right through their appealingly relaxed elders ...