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90Little Voice is that rarity, a filmed adaptation of a stage play that actually works.
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90The trick of this movie is that it's so changeable: You think you've got it nailed and it slithers away to become some other new, fabulous thing.
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90This terrific movie manages to invest kitchen-sink realism with the soul of a fairy tale.
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88By offering opportunities to laugh, cry, and cheer, Little Voice satisfies in a big way.
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Taking it's framework from classic fairly-tale characters like Cinderella, the British story of Little Voice is one of compassion, humor and music.
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80The show that Horrocks puts on when she finally takes to the stage is more than worth the wait.
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80British actress Jane Horrocks plays Little Voice, and it is a transfixing, tour de force performance.
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80Horrocks's phenomenal mimicry of musical grande dames...makes a splendid centerpiece for the otherwise more ordinary film built around it.
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80A small picture with a big heart.
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80Little Voice may be more of a confection than a square meal, but it's proof of how good a dish can be when the ingredients are of the highest order.
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80Many of the elements in this story about a woman who's nearly eclipsed by her overbearing mother are all too familiar, yet the combination is utterly charming.
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75Little Voice is unthinkable without the special and unexpected talent of its star.
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75A slightly more light-hearted version of the "Shine" story. [4 December 1998, Friday, p.A]
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75The movie is often as raucous and seedy as its less-attractive characters, but it gains power from inventive acting and poignant touches.
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75They're great, every one of them, but the real joy of Little Voice is Horrocks: her impeccable evocation of a timid soul and that eerie voice that sounds so surprising coming out of her.
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75The drawbacks to Little Voice might sink a lesser movie, but not this one.
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75Engagingly offbeat. [4 December 1998, Life, p.13E]
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70Jane Horrocks saves the annoyingly noisy Little Voice.
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63Ultimately, Little Voice comes to us from an indeterminate place that is no longer the theatre but not quite the movies. Let's call it music videoland -- best just to sit back and enjoy golden-oldie tunes belted out by a quicksilver mimic.
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60Actress Jane Horrocks is so good in this drama that you'll hardly notice -- or care -- that the rest of the film isn't quite up to snuff.
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60The screenplay has a strong sense of fun but after establishing its concept and characters it doesn't know where to take them.
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The movie adaptation suffers the symptoms of so many stage-to-screen transplants: What seemed thrillingly big and bold in live performance comes across shrunken and hemmed in when "opened up" to fill a feature film.
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Though it's got some funny one-liners, sight gags, and Blethyn's over-the-top histrionics, Little Voice is often painfully dramatic, right down to its final mother-daughter confrontation.
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40The decibel level in Little Voice ranges from a delicate whisper to seismic bellowing; aurally speaking, it traverses the spectrum of human sounds.
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20As mean-spirited toward its working-class characters, especially its women, as it is profoundly unfunny.
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