Sexual deviates become heroes. This film is excrement on celluloid.
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11/27/06
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
61 - 80 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Atmospheric in moodiness and sporting an underlying chilliness, Little Children resonates with a convincing sense of pathos in desperation and bewilderment.
11/24/06
A slow-paced bourgeois melodrama.
11/21/06
Little Children refers not only to the kids that the parents worry about but also to the adults who often behave immaturely.
11/17/06
Little Children is something of a head-scratcher. A time-released head-scratcher. And that's a good thing.
11/17/06
The result is a film that skirts cruelty and easy satire for deep, troubling realities -- a nearly thorough triumph, in short.
11/17/06
Little Children slowly loses its grip, becoming just another story about infidelity, albeit an exceptionally polished, well-acted one.
11/17/06
... not entirely sure what it wants to be.
11/16/06
... it's as absorbing as a train wreck, and its brand of heavy drama is so rare in movies these days that everything about it seems amazingly fresh.
11/16/06
Hypnotic in its appeal, devastating in its approach, ruefully acted and bravely narrated. One of the year's best.
11/16/06
It's a beautifully insightful story co-written by Field and Tom Perrotta (based on his novel) that is sometimes unsettling but always engrossing, and ultimately heart-warming.
11/11/06
There 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 CriticLittle Children is a movie that defies easy categorisation. It’s not quite a drama, not quite a love story, not quite a black comedy but rather a little of all three rolled together.
11/03/06
Besides Winslet, the actor most deserving of Oscar recognition is Jackie Earle Haley as the despised Ronald James McGorvey.
10/31/06
The unrestrained (and rather excellent) trailer for Todd Field's Little Children would have us believe that the Whore of Babylon (possibly Kate Winslet) is coming for us on NJ Transit, with Pandora's Box in hand.
10/31/06
Little Children ultimately seems to display the conformity to convention that so alarms its central characters.
10/28/06
Impressively directed, sharply written and beautifully shot drama with superb performances from the entire cast.
10/28/06
Field skillfully weaves wry humor, absorbing drama, and nerve-wracking suspense in a style that reflects the influence of Stanley Kubrick.
10/27/06
That the narration and Field's God's-eye camera draw attention to the film's form doesn't detract from its function: to give us that 'second' in the mirror...
10/27/06
Kate Winslet is damn hot. That, and just about the best actress in film today.
10/26/06
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