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OFCS Rating: 90% Fresh |
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4/5 | "Writer Michael Arndt has cleverly captured the bribery and corruption which lie at the heart of most families." |
| Eye for Film |
| Amber Wilkinson |
4/5 | "a family road movie brimming with spot-on performances, hilarious situations, and plenty of good feeling - and it treats its comic characters with a rare affection." |
| musicOMH.com |
| Anton Bitel |
9/10 | "The repeated sight of the family jumping out to push-start their dilapidated van is wonderfully simple: these people will keep pushing forward, together, no matter what." |
| Freeze Dried Movies |
| Brian Juergens |
A | "It may appear to be another insignificant Sundance offering on the outside, but Little Miss Sunshine is an enchanting, rewarding picture that should not be passed over." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
C+ | "...mediocre black comedy." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "The kiddie beauty pageant replays all the lessons that have come before: Such competitions are superficial, and displays of love come in all shapes." |
| Common Sense Media |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
68/100 | "Royal Tenenbaums meets Malcolm in the Middle. Oh, and let's not forget Weekend at Bernie's." |
| Cinemania |
| Dan Jardine |
3/5 | "If you want to see how an exceptional group of actors manages to save a movie from itself, this is the one." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
3.5/4 | "Little Miss Sunshine offers, among other things, ensemble acting at its very best. You'd be hard pressed to find a funnier, more touching film this year.
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| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
B- | "... the perfect cast." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2.5/4 | "Garners one's affections and ultimately succeeds as more than just a distaff Vacation knockoff." |
| DustinPutman.com |
| Dustin Putman |
3/5 | "Una mirada tierna y desinhibida a los conflictos, los temores, los fracasos y las esperanzas de una familia, con estupenda banda sonora y elenco." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
B | "It's good for some laughs, though I don't see it holding up to multiple viewings." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "A beautiful picture punctuated by a top-notch cast and a laugh quotient that exponentially grows right up to its satiric punctuation mark of a climax." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B+ | "The last act is a spot-on send-up of kids' beauty pageants, a portrayal both proximate to reality and one of the creepiest things I've ever seen." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
| "Sundance-calibrated sitcom" |
| CinePassion |
| Fernando F. Croce |
3.5/4 | "Amusingly caustic [and] satirically droll...Little Miss Sunshine is a ray of off-kilter sliced slapstick waiting to burst at the seams." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
A- | "This year's Sideways ... both wonderfully amusing and curiously moving." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
5/5 | "A very funny and touching family drama about the wisdom that often comes not with success but with failure." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
48/100 | "Harmless enough as passable road movies go, but I can't help but wish directors of films like these would grow some damn balls." |
| Film and Felt |
| Gabe Leibowitz |
3/4 | "It takes a deft hand to fashion a feel-good movie with plenty of laughs and an upbeat ending out of a story that includes drug addiction, a suicide attempt, a death, Nietzsche, and Proust." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
2.5/5 | "For every good moment in Little Miss Sunshine, which is shaping up to be this summer's breakout indie hit, there are two that are forced, contrived, or overly cute." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
3/4 | "Charming little indie that puts generation-gap dysfunction on the map ..." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
8/10 | "Little Miss Sunshine is saved by an ace -- its cast." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Jeffrey Chen |
5/5 | "Little Miss Sunshine is a gem of a film, both uplifting and funny." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
A | "entertains across socio-intellectual boundaries and runs a Chaplinesque gamut" |
| Old School Reviews |
| John A. Nesbit |
2/4 | "Little Miss Sunshine is an example of a very nicely done small movie about family that is content and secure enough to deliver everything in a simple, straightforward way, all while being silly and implausible." |
| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
3/5 | "full review in Greek" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
5/5 | "Eccentric...heartbreakingly hilarious...terrific tension of inevitability...one of those movies that form my raison d'etre as a movie reviewer." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
B+ | "an expertly made comedy with a cast firing on all cylinders and a fireworks display of an ending.
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| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3/4 | "What the film lacks in originality, it makes up for with a boisterous, oddball energy and a genuine, heartfelt sense of its characters." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
| "You embrace this film wholeheartedly... because after it gets the initial smacks of satire out of the way, it becomes genuinely heartfelt, full of raw emotional power in a way that isn't about satire..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/4 | "A hilariously caustic package that makes its ultimate uplift genuinely feel-good instead of insufferably saccharine." |
| TheMovieReport.com |
| Michael Dequina |
4/4 | "Like Garden State or Sideways,
the film uses comedy to find the content in the lives of its characters. Little Miss Sunshine is funny, touching, and unexpectedly inspiring.
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| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B+ | "Heart-stoppingly tender and outrageously hilarious." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
2.5/4 | "There's something mildly endearing about the film's joyful celebration of loserdom." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
5/5 | "Melancólico como sua bela trilha sonora, o filme oscila com talento entre a comédia e o drama enquanto seus personagens aprendem importantes lições sobre o que é realmente relevante em nossa curta passagem por este planeta." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
3.5/5 | "...screenwriter Michael Arndt, along with Dayton and Faris, have taken this "dramedy" and infused it with a rare humanity amidst the gay porn jokes and corpse gags." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
4.5/5 | "Family comedies aimed at grown-ups just don't get better than this." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
4/5 | "Accumulates depth and fleshes out its characters." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
A- | "So brilliantly, hysterically perfect that the graceful message beneath it hardly registers: we're laughing so hard we've literally stopped breathing." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "The underlying dark themes of death and suicide are leavened with sweetness, love, humor, and even hope." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B | "The exceptional cast, solid directing and a briskly paced story help to raise it to the level of one of the best comedies of the summer." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
3.5/4 | "Counters its levity with welcome kindness that's trumpeted by a first-rate cast." |
| Charlotte Weekly |
| Sean O'Connell |
8/10 | "A wry, raunchy, engaging, adult-aimed comedy about a delightfully dysfunctional family - a real crowd-pleaser." |
| Modamag.com |
| Susan Granger |
2.5/4 | "Boils down to the movie version of that Blind Melon music video with the chubby girl in that bumblebee outfit." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
3/4 | "An intensely diverse family take a road trip that brings them closer in a hilarious picture that is unfortunately formulaic." |
| Oscar Guy |
| Wesley Lovell |
| "Click here to see review" |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
8/10 | Read review |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
| Read review |
| Cinema Crazed |
| Felix Vasquez Jr. |
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OFCS Rating: 90% Fresh |
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