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(1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 96% Fresh Page   1   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 "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   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. "   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."   TheMovieBoy.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 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 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. "   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."   Mr. Brown's Movies   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. "   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 "Little Miss Sunshine isn't the kind of movie you want to beat up on: It's sweet-tempered at its core, and even when it's trying too hard to reinforce its own quirks, the charms of its actors filter through effortlessly."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 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  (1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 96% Fresh Page   1