Sure to raise heckles in the tabloid press, this is complex, thought-provoking cinema.
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12/30/06
Little Children (2006)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:9
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Little Children takes a penetrating look at suburbia and its flawed individuals with an unflinching yet humane eye.
Theatrical Release:03-11-2006
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 - 11 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticIt'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
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 CriticLittle Children ultimately seems to display the conformity to convention that so alarms its central characters.
10/28/06
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 CriticDirector and co-writer Todd Field establishes some very nontraditional premises, both stylistic and emotional, that give his film -- based on a novel by Tom Perrotta, who collaborated on the screenplay -- a creepy, hypnotic edge.
10/19/06
Top CriticField is a rare American director who appreciates the virtues of breathing room: he allows scenes to develop in their own sweet time, trusting that we will find the undercurrents of human behavior as fascinating as he does.
10/14/06
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 CriticAn across-the-board stunner.
09/13/06
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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