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02/14/07
Little Children (2006)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:34
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Little Children takes a penetrating look at suburbia and its flawed individuals with an unflinching yet humane eye.
Runtime: 2 hrs 17 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $5,307,219
Synopsis: Actor-turned-director Todd Field follows up his Oscar-nominated drama, IN THE BEDROOM, with this ambitious adaptation of Tom Perrotta's celebrated novel. Set in the imploding minefields of modern... [More]
Starring: Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Gregg Edelman, Sadie Goldstein
Director: Todd Field
Reviews for Little Children
1 - 12 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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02/09/07
Top CriticThe complexity of the relationships is meticulously portrayed, although at times overly earnest. Nonetheless, it's a powerful piece of cinema and one that reverberates and impacts by its themes.
02/01/07
Top CriticI didn't like any of these characters, but I kept pulling for them anyway -- right up to the shock-o-riffic ending, when I felt I'd been sucker-punched.
01/05/07
Top CriticSure to raise heckles in the tabloid press, this is complex, thought-provoking cinema.
12/30/06
Top CriticThere are plenty of laughs and plenty of shocks, though, and plenty of shifts of narrative viewpoint within the ensemble to keep you on your toes.
11/04/06
Top CriticA hugely absorbing social drama that is, by turns, excruciating, sad and sardonic.
10/19/06
Top CriticThis is a pitch-perfect slice of dark suburban life.
10/17/06
Top CriticThe sexual awakening of a disappointed wife may seem like an old movie turn, but when has it been done with such candor?
10/09/06
Top CriticAn engaging tale of middle-class suburbia, with its attendant fears, yearnings and rushes to judgment.
10/05/06
Top CriticOne of the few films I can think of that examines the baffling combination of smugness, self-abnegation, ceremonial deference and status anxiety that characterizes middle-class Gen X parenting, and find sheer, white-knuckled terror at its core.
10/05/06
Top CriticTodd Fields' superb film adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta result is challenging, accessible and hard to stop thinking about.
09/28/06
Top CriticA deftly made, emotionally acute and at times a tad fastidious examination of cracks in middle-class American family life.
09/05/06
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