Critic Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times
Falls so far outside our ordinary story expectations it may frustrate some viewers.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Involvingly acted, surehandedly crafted.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
Beautifully produced: a moving film with a fascinating story and exemplary acting.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
The narrative kept me glued to my seat.
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| 70 |
Newsweek
Andrea C. Basora
Thomas is supported in his first directorial endeavor by a truly spectacular cast.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
Where the movie falters is in sustaining the tricky balance between pastoral life lessons and creepy suspense.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
Would seem hokey if it didn't have powerful, extraordinary central performances and cinematography that lends the English landscape around Cornwall a mythical cast.
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| 58 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's a movie brimming with good intentions, solid production values and searing performances. However, it never quite clicks into place with any real satisfaction.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Hurt is slumming in an unchallenging role.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
There's something plodding and uncomfortably strident about Little Animals that keeps the audience from sharing, much less understanding, Bobby's enchantment.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
This moody film is ravishingly beautiful to look at -- but the story's fairy tale atmosphere doesn't entirely mesh with its psychological underpinnings.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
The effort is earnest, but the plot turns more and more implausible.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Fantasy-style plot doesn't mesh easily with the unsettling psychological themes woven through it.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Three leads do their best with simplistic characters.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Simplistic on one level, indecipherable on another, it's a most peculiar muddle.
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| 25 |
New York Post
A surprisingly nasty fable about a particularly silly, very English brand of animal-rights extremism.
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| 23 |
Mr. Showbiz
Hamilton's quasi-Luddite tale doesn't make a coherent movie under the best of circumstances, and these were, apparently, something substantially less than that.
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