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The Little Traitor
Metascore
47 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
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  1. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Roger Moore
    75
    An engaging Israeli film about the days when the people throwing rocks, assassinating soldiers and setting off bombs were Jews out to carve a state for themselves out of the British "mandate" in Palestine.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    63
    Alfred Molina gives a warm and engaging performance as an occupying British soldier.
  3. Arizona Republic
    Reviewed by: Richard Nilsen
    Dec 7, 2010
    60
    Doesn't attempt much, doesn't accomplish much, doesn't offer much and doesn't leave you with anything memorable to take home with you.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    60
    Roth prefers sentimentality to subtlety and cutesiness to complexity. Fortunately, Molina balances Port's precocity, bringing a welcome gravitas to this simply told tale.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Betsy Sharkey
    60
    The film is clever in using a child to tease out the misunderstandings that arise between those on opposite sides, even when the river of emotions that should course through The Little Traitor sometimes runs dry.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Lewis Beale
    50
    Despite this promising subject matter, the film runs out of steam two-thirds of the way through and becomes a sort of Palestinian "Porky's," ending with a fast-forward 30 years into the future that is confusing and abrupt.
  7. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    50
    All in all, a resonant theme, poorly played.
  8. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    The mix of mawkishness and polemic is naive. Children, though, will probably leave with a lot of good questions. A better movie would leave them with more.
  9. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nicolas Rapold
    40
    Terminally mild, ill-structured adaptation of Amos Oz's novel "Panther in the Basement."
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    40
    A muddled morality tale more interested in coming of age than getting of wisdom.
  11. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    40
    Sentimental and a bit too cute in evoking a child's-eye view, the picture, nevertheless will please its target Jewish auds.
  12. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Stephen Garrett
    20
    Numbingly simplistic in concept and execution.
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