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Movie Overview
Cast
Kate Winslet
Patrick Wilson
Gregg Edelman
Director
Todd Field
MPAA Rating
R - for strong sexuality and nudity, language and some disturbing content.
Little Children (2006)
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OFCS Rating: 70% Fresh
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A
"A wonderfully impulsive, engrossing journey of lustful temptation and an engaging snapshot of fixation."
OhmyNews.com
Brian Orndorf
3.5/5
"may not be the great follow-up we wanted after In the Bedroom, but it still verifies that the skill he showed there is no fluke"
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
D
"Bereft of a protagonist, the movie breaks down under the weight of absurd voice-over narration and an exploitative ending that is as indefensibly wrongheaded as it is cheap."
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
"If
Little Children
is pedantic and sometimes smug in its judgments, it is also painful."
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
3.5/4
"Hypnotic in its appeal, devastating in its approach, ruefully acted and bravely narrated. One of the year's best."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
David N. Butterworth
C+
"A slow-paced bourgeois melodrama."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
4.5/5
"
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."
Film Threat
Don R. Lewis
"'Little Children' sometimes trivializes what deserves serious treatment."
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
7/10
"predstavlja upravo ono %u0161to bi "ozbiljni" holivudski film trebao biti"
Index.hr
Dragan Antulov
2/4
"It is only once the end credits have begun to roll that you step back, process what you have seen, and leave dissatisfied."
DustinPutman.com
Dustin Putman
"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."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
4/5
"Un drama inteligente, tenso y reflexivo sobre la insatisfacción, el deseo, la infidelidad y las perversiones de un puñado de habitantes suburbanos. Excelente dirección y elenco."
Uruguay Total
Enrique Buchichio
B+
"Presenting sunny suburbia as having a dark side is not a new tactic, but Fields and company present this grim, smirking fable with refreshing ingenuity."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
3/4
"This is a story that cuts through lost youth, actual youth and youth suspended through psychosexual disorders that mentally draw such people to their own kind."
eFilmCritic.com
Erik Childress
B-
"Compelling in the way it explores the notion that adults always cruelly use children for their own ends."
Film Blather
Eugene Novikov
3/4
"Provides a taut commentary on hypocrisy, human interaction, and the lies we tell ourselves..."
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
"Its antiseptic textures merely whimper 'Oscar clip'"
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
3/4
"Atmospheric in moodiness and sporting an underlying chilliness,
Little Children
resonates with a convincing sense of pathos in desperation and bewilderment."
Movie Eye
Frank Ochieng
A-
"Beautifully crafted, sharply funny and emotionally piercing, all at once."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
5/5
"One of the most original and nuanced suburban dramas ever to grace the screen; it explores the complexity and intensity of yearning."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
3.5/4
"The main story deals with Sarah and Brad, but the other characters are given existences of their own, which is rare in motion pictures, and
Little Children
is richer for it."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
4/4
"Relentlessly picks at scabs of domestic bliss that conceal sorrow, betrayal and futile fulfillment."
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
7/10
"There's something about the frustrations of middle class citizens trapped in suburbia that seems both profound and profoundly trivial, and that's reflected in the tone."
Window to the Movies
Jeffrey Chen
7/10
"A great movie that misses the mark a little, but provides plenty of drama, depth, entertainment value and questions to ponder."
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo
6/10
"...a flawed work that sparkles only sporadically."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
2.5/4
"
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."
Bangitout.com
Jordan Hiller
4.5/5
"The leads are self-delusional, secretive, dependent, nakedly desperate at times, and all fascinating."
Cinerina
Karina Montgomery
3.5/4
"Kate Winslet is damn hot. That, and just about the best actress in film today."
Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
5/5
"At its heart, this is a story about the way we judge others, the way others judge us, and the way we judge ourselves."
Cinematical
Kim Voynar
A-
"Besides Winslet, the actor most deserving of Oscar recognition is Jackie Earle Haley as the despised Ronald James McGorvey."
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
"It had me at hello... and kept me for a long time, and then lost me in its final moments."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
4/4
"
Little 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."
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
1.5/4
"In requiring only passivity from its audience, whom it shovel-feeds faux-erudite lessons, it's the Academy Award-baiting version of Don't Ask, Just Tell cinema."
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
5/5
"O filme de Todd Field ilustra nosso eterno despreparo para lidar com as grandes questões da vida ou mesmo com nossos menores impulsos."
Cinema em Cena
Pablo Villaca
4.5/5
"It strikes such a strongly resonant chord that it's often difficult to watch, but we can't turn away."
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
A
"An honest film with believable characters that does not depend on arbitrary or unlikely plot developments to achieve dramatic tension."
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
2/5
"Little children wake and listen"
JWR
S. James Wegg
"Click here to see review"
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
2.5/5
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Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
2/4
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Joe Lozito
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