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Where God Left His Shoes
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61 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    83
    Writer-director Salvatore Stabile has a good eye for the details of hard-luck ordinariness, and he sketches believable family bonds with a minimum of flourish.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    70
    The acting, the on-the-fly atmosphere (the film was shot quickly), and Leguizamo's increasingly urgent hustle are deeply evocative, but parts of the movie are almost too painful to endure.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ronnie Scheib
    70
    Piles the pathos high as if to see how many hard-luck cliches its pugilist hero can fend off without succumbing to schmaltz. Given John Leguizamo's knockout perf, sentimentality never dares raise its head, and the improbably stacked deck from which his character is dealt gives the pic's would-be "neo-realist" premise a peculiar edge.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Pinkerton
    60
    Leguizamo, working at a scramble, gets more on-screen traction than in recent memory.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gary Goldstein
    50
    Stabile keeps his affecting story hurtling forward with such grit and integrity it's easy to forgive its loaded setup and occasional lapses in detail and logic.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    50
    Although Mr. Leguizamo wisely underplays a role that is just short of saintly, the character is still a filmmaker's bogus, bleeding-heart contrivance in a movie that is much less truthful than it pretends to be.
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