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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 · The power of Little Men is in how the characters resist the melodramatic flow (which is, come to think of it, how Chekhov works, too). Kinnear gives a layered portrait of...
- 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...
- 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.
Jan 26, 2016 · Film Review: ‘Little Men’ Friendship is strange in Ira Sachs’ latest, as two New York teens struggle to keep their parents' personal business from sabotaging their connection. By Peter...
Little Men is a thoughtful and moving film that contains some of the year’s most honest and nuanced performances from Taplitz, Barbieri and Kinnear. There are no villains in the film and each character has what is on the surface a reasonable position, but what is lost is the compassion to step back and see things from a broader perspective ...
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