[Little Children] benefits from mostly good acting but is not recommendable on any other level.
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01/05/07
Little Children (2006)
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Reviews Counted:152
Fresh:121
Rotten:31
Average Rating:7.4/10
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
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Downright chilling in the way it dissects the ins and outs of suburban life ... with shattering precision, like an anthropologist looking in from the outside.
01/05/07
Perhaps most satisfying when viewed as a particularly fraught, literate and beautifully acted soap opera; no doubt the movie's East Wyndham, Mass., is located on the same commuter train line that serves Peyton Place and Wisteria Lane.
01/05/07
A wonderfully impulsive, engrossing journey of lustful temptation and an engaging snapshot of fixation.
01/04/07
Field has merely looked down upon people trying to make sense of their lives, and judged them unworthy.
01/04/07
Little Children includes all the clichéd scenarios of a midday TV sudser, but they're ratcheted up several seedy degrees.
01/04/07
Filmmaker Todd Field seems to have completely missed the point of his source material, Tom Perrotta's tale of suburban angst, longing and temptation, which is at least slightly a parody.
01/04/07
A beautifully observed, profoundly moving tale of suburban malaise.
01/04/07
Unexpected compassion is one of the few hopeful things in Little Children, which will not be easy for moviegoers to shake. I saw it three months ago and I'm still chewing over its central irony.
01/04/07
The bulky melodrama spreads throughout the last half of the film like an acrid and unromantic miasma or like the shards of shattered marriage vows cast helter-skelter into an unknowable future.
01/04/07
Little Children is intentionally very literary, with narration that sometimes substitutes for dialogue and a symmetrical structure.
01/04/07
Little Children is outstanding and I think it will be one of those films that people don’t really recognize it’s greatness until a few years down the road.
01/02/07
A perfect companion piece to American Beauty, and just as good.
12/31/06
Little Children is a fable, complete with a full throated narrator and Aesopesque moral. It teaches its lesson almost like one that would be taught to children - with extreme scenarios and exaggerated characterizations.
12/31/06
The success Fields has with this film comes through the uncomfortable intersection between comedy, melodrama and tragedy. Oh, and romance.
12/30/06
Top CriticSure to raise heckles in the tabloid press, this is complex, thought-provoking cinema.
12/30/06
Top CriticLittle Children is neither a sitcom nor a melodrama. Instead, it feels like real life, inhabited by real people with real problems. If this story actually happened, this is exactly how it would go down.
12/26/06
An honest look at infidelity and its ramifications. Clearly one of the best of the year with multiple Oscar-caliber performances, especially by the brilliant Kate Winslet.
12/11/06
An honest film with believable characters that does not depend on arbitrary or unlikely plot developments to achieve dramatic tension.
12/06/06
One of the very best movies of the year, Little Children is a gripping romantic tragedy.
12/01/06
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