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Aug 5, 2016 · "Little Men" has a melodramatic set-up out of 1930s agitprop theatre (landlords vs. tenants). Melodrama for some reason has a bad reputation, seeming to suggest soap operas or three-hanky weepers, but melodrama has always been one of the most effective genres for social and economic criticism because down on the ground things really are that ...
Aug 2, 2016 · Overcomes Its Melodramatic Premise With Gentle Humanity. In his quietly devastating Little Men, Ira Sachs continues to use the New York real-estate market and its gut-wrenching traumas as a...
- Senior Movie Critic
Aug 4, 2016 · The childhood bond that the psychologist Harry Stack Sullivan called “chumship” can be as intense and mysterious as romantic love, and can be sparked by the kind of intuitive connection that arises...
- Ira Sachs
Jul 19, 2016 · “Little Men” is an 85 minute Brooklyn melodrama about two artistically-inclined teen boys and the rental dispute between their families that threatens their friendship. The kids are engagingly written, complicated in a quickly sketched-out way.
Aug 5, 2016 · As their parents engage in a bitter real-estate dispute, the friendship between two adolescent boys deepens in Ira Sach's new film. Critic David Edelstein calls Little Men "quietly devastating."
Aug 16, 2016 · Little Men is a delicate, controlled film – one fraught with emotions that the characters struggle to maintain. In most films like this, you would expect things to descend into yelling and histrionics – but because the film is directed (and co-written) by Ira Sachs, it never does.
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Aug 28, 2016 · Writer-director Ira Sachs delivers a poignant melodrama about modern New York City. The film is shot in a simple, naturalistic way that makes you aware of everyday life. There is not one false note in the acting.
