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85The most poignant (if hard-hitting) depiction of childhood to show up this year.
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80Indeed, one of the nicest things about this jewel of a film is that there isn't much of a story at all -- just a handful of delicately drawn characters moving through life that is at once familiar and yet slightly elevated by a director who loves the good in people more than the bad.
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80By turns amusing, touching and horrifying, A Room For Romeo Brass is a film that defies expectation at every turn.
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80An assured, graceful instance of effective screen storytelling, and Meadows draws splendid performances from his cast, especially from the young Shim and Marshall.
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75Effortless in the way it insinuates itself into these families, touching in the way it shows how fiercely Romeo and Knocks are, despite everything, their own little men.
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Offers an honest, understated and unsentimental look at a small incident in the course of a friendship - but it is the kind of incident that defines most childhoods.
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75A quirky little film with an offbeat trajectory that rattles through the bones of story with eyes open to the texture of experience and the dimensions of character.
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70So low-key it could be mistaken for a throwaway. But Meadows's understanding of childhood fears and fantasies and the yearning, heartfelt performances he draws from his two young actors should not be underestimated.
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70It is essentially a personal reminiscence of daily life that captures with an astonishing precision exactly what it felt to be a 12-year- old boy growing up in a particular time and place.
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70A bitter, black and oddly beautiful story.
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70Proceeds with an episodic pace, full of narrative twists and turns that clearly are not pretested by a Hollywood committee. Things feel sort of strange and original all at once.
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70A sense of authenticity overshadows any contrivance in this subtly classic drama.
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63Meadows is very good with the boys' relationship, and achieves his and Fraser's central goal of showing how childhood bonds can be simultaneously fragile and strong.
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60An easygoing kitchen-sink comedy with an unsettling final act.
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50Fairly shapeless story.
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42More and more independent filmmakers seem to be cobbling together characters and scenes that have surface hook and flash without organic emotional logic.
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40A kitchen-sink realist coming-of-age story in the venerable British tradition, with all the good and bad that entails.
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25Goes downhill fast.
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