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77 out of 100

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6.6 out of 10

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  • Summary: How do you learn to love again when the pain of the past won't let you go? When you're 32 with a troubled history and a doubtful future, it’s a question that isn't so easy to answer. And for Tracy Heart (Blanchett), it's a question she can no longer ignore. (First Look Features)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    91
    The actors are terrific, especially Weaving, who plays bottoming out as a tragedy spiked with gallows humor, and Blanchett, who digs deep into the booby-trapped nature of recovery. The revelation, however, is Rowan Woods, a major filmmaker in the making.
  2. Empire
    Reviewed by: Patrick Peters
    60
    Strong performances and meticulous direction make this consistently disconcerting, but the subplot distracts from the moving human drama.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    25
    Why was this pointless movie made? Because quality actors like Blanchett and Weaving like to play drug addicts. They can't stop themselves. They need help.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. HarryV.
    10
    Australian director Rowan Woods has made an arresting, gut wrenching gem of a film that practically no one has seen. It’s called Little Fish and it is one of 2007’s most seamlessly multilayered film. It boasts mesmerizing performances from Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving as recovering heroine addicts and Sam Neil makes a terrific turn as a menacing upscale drug dealer. But more than its actors, what makes this film stand head and shoulders above the majority of dramatic films I’ve seen this year, is its flawlessly executed narration fearlessly guided by a patient, deceptively directionless screenplay. Watching Little Fish isn’t always an easy feat and at times it appears to be going nowhere in particular. But stick with it. It’s third act and specifically its final scene will leave you floored and quite possibly, in tears.… Expand
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  2. ChadS.
    9
    "Little Fish" is, hands down, the best film about the price one has to pay for a youthful indiscretion. Next to drug addiction, having a child before you turn twenty-one is a piece of cake. The child grows up; you grow up, too. You mature. But if you're a recovering heroin addict like Tracy(Cate Blanchett), mom still cooks your meals and you're the manager(an overglorified clerk) at a video rental shop. Tracy is thirty-two, but she might as well be eighteen. Tracy is three years into her recovery(who glows with good health as she walks through the streets of Little Saigon; the baggage isn't perceptible), but her situation is tenuous at best, since drugs still has a stranglehold over her brother Ray(Martin Henderson), a dealer; her mom's ex-boyfriend(Hugo Weaving), a user; and her boyfriend Jonny(Dustin Nguyen), a dealer and a user. Tracy is like a little fish who has to manuever past all these other seemingly benign fish that, in actuality, can swallow her whole. Since Tracy can't get the small business-loan(to buy her boss' shop) in order to go legitimate, there is the ominous possibility that she and Jonny(who is still an active drug-dealer) will turn out like Moss(Joel Tobeck) and his wife(who has the hair, attire, and child in the crook of her arm like any soccer mom, but the bad skin and hard demeanor of a drug trafficker), a suburban couple with two kids and a double-life. In the final scene of "Little Fish", the filmmaker brilliantly lays out Tracy's(and her cohorts') arrested development and their uncertain future. Kids, the filmmaker is telling us, don't do drugs, or you'll forever be the boys(and girl) of summer. "Little Fish" is, sorry, swimmingly, brilliant.… Expand
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  3. JonM.
    5
    Something amiss here, powerful performances, creative cinematography, and yet the resulting package is still dissapointing, predictable and ultimatly forgettable. In its quest to be a worthy, award gathering critical success, this movie forges forward with great ambition. Unfortunately, in doing so they fail to include any elements to make Little Fish in any way interesting or entertaining. Despite this, I am sure Blanchett, Weaving et al will no doubt receive endless back patting from the Hollywood thesp set for their performances. If Rowan Woods can keep extracting performances like those, a better film must surely be on the way.… Expand
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