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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a beautiful, matter-of-fact French drama about a young girl who wants to be a boy -- and for one singular summer around her 10th birthday passes as one..." (Read the full review...) 87 words, 11/18/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "If you think you're looking at a boy, you see one. If a girl, then that's what you see. The movie doesn't have a trace of gimmick to it; it's perfectly straightforward.... 'Tomboy' is tender and affectionate." (Read the full review...) 629 words, 01/27/12
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...the writer and director Céline Sciamma is operating in a different tradition, that of the art cinema... The story that emerges is programmatic and largely unsurprising, but these children give it messiness, joy and life." (Read the full review...) 609 words, 11/18/11 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "The film's young heroine is proud to be herself; there's just not much for her to do beyond that." (Read the full review...) 118 words, 11/18/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Quiet and naturalistic in the best way... stands out as an especially affecting delicacy about the thrills and pitfalls of exploring who one is." (Read the full review...) 263 words, 11/25/11 Sara Stewart, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "Director Céline Sciamma ('Water Lilies') draws wonderfully natural performances from her young cast, and doesn't shy away from an uncomfortable or pensive silence." (Read the full review...) 211 words, 11/16/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...simple, beautiful... A very good film." (Read the full review...) 404 words, 01/27/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "If you think you're looking at a boy, you see one. If a girl, then that's what you see. The movie doesn't have a trace of gimmick to it; it's perfectly straightforward.... 'Tomboy' is tender and affectionate." (Read the full review...) 629 words, 01/27/12 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "A sensitive portrait of childhood just before pubescence... astutely explores the freedom, however brief, of being untethered to the highly rule-bound world of gender codes." (Read the full review...) 598 words, 11/16/11 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...delightful and sometimes disturbing..." (Read the full review...) 559 words, 12/02/11 Jennie Punter, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "It may be a slim story, but its gentle humour, natural rhythm and above all authentic performances make 'Tomboy' beautiful, intimate cinema." (Read the full review...) 491 words, 12/02/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "The actors are sensational.... 'Tomboy' is terrific." (Read the full review...) 281 words, 12/01/11
John DeFore, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "As slender as its protagonist, with a disdain for extraneous plot mechanics befitting its lazy-summer setting... offers dramatically loaded situations but sees no reason to exploit them." (Read the full review...) 423 words, 12/16/11 Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an explicit movie about one young girl's latency period... an affectionate character sketch from French director Céline Sciamma. She matter-of-factly presents Laure as a 'tween trying on the other gender as her younger sister might try on Dad's shoes." (Read the full review...) 384 words, 12/09/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Laure/Mikael's battle for self-definition isn't the stuff of earthshaking drama, but it ends on a nice, modest note." (Read the full review...) 152 words, 12/16/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...as visually beautiful as its 10-year-old heroine is defiantly plain.... Director Céline Sciamma keeps the sensations immediate and the camera at child's-eye level." (Read the full review...) 620 words, 12/02/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...like a pint-size 'Boys Don't Cry,' and as such, it's practically unique." (Read the full review...) 416 words, 11/23/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "Céline Sciamma (whose one previous film was 'Water Lilies') has a knack for capturing kids at their most natural..." (Read the full review...) 305 words, 01/06/12 Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "Director Céline Sciamma strikes the right balance of sweetness and anguish, as well as showing a knack for working with child actors, in this touching tale of a prepubescent child's complicated relationship with her parents, other children and her own body." (Read the full review...) 131 words, 09/30/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...as tightly constructed as a short story and as seemingly straightforward as a documentary... the parable about a small fib that grows out of control is so rooted in the rich soil of sexual identity that it entangles us." (Read the full review...) 251 words, 01/27/12
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "A sensitive portrait of childhood just before pubescence... astutely explores the freedom, however brief, of being untethered to the highly rule-bound world of gender codes." (Read the full review...) 598 words, 11/16/11 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...lovely... the deserving Jury winner at the Berlin Film Festival of the Teddy Award for the Best Gay or Lesbian film." (Read the full review...) 114 words, 12/01/11 Noel Murray, AV Club: EXCELLENT (cg) "Two feature films into her career, writer-director Céline Sciamma has proven unusually skilled at making short, plot-light movies about budding adolescents discovering themselves." (Read the full review...) 344 words, 11/17/11 Alison Willmore, Movieline: EXCELLENT (cg) "...the gender issues it delves into are more complex than any supposedly unfeminine preferences for sports and pants-wearing and other associations that linger around that antiquated term." (Read the full review...) 920 words, 11/16/11 Diego Costa, Slant: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...one of those little big films whose simplicity and concision suggest the excess of meaning that language (cinematic or otherwise) could never account for.... The film's ideas brew effortlessly before our eyes, as if it were too invested in its characters' experiences to worry about 'selling' us its story or 'teaching' us its messages." (Read the full review...) 752 words, 11/14/11 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "The actors are sensational.... 'Tomboy' is terrific." (Read the full review...) 281 words, 12/01/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...the writer and director Céline Sciamma is operating in a different tradition, that of the art cinema... The story that emerges is programmatic and largely unsurprising, but these children give it messiness, joy and life." (Read the full review...) 609 words, 11/18/11 Scott Tobias, NPR: OUTSTANDING "...beautiful... Writer/director Céline Sciamma gives 'Tomboy' the economy and exquisite proportion of a short story, but it's the performances that truly astonish.... there's an absolute naturalism to all the performances here." (Read the full review...) 548 words, 11/16/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Quiet and naturalistic in the best way... stands out as an especially affecting delicacy about the thrills and pitfalls of exploring who one is." (Read the full review...) 263 words, 11/25/11
Boyd Van Hoeij, Daily Variety: GOOD "A 10-year-old French girl with a Jean Seberg 'do decides to pass for a boy when she moves to a new neighborhood.... explores the intricacy and many contradictions of budding female sexuality..." (Read the full review...) 608 words, 02/11/11 Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...sharply observed story of youths grappling with awkward bodies and budding hormones... [a] lighthearted preteen drama..." (Read the full review...) 514 words, 03/02/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "Quiet and naturalistic in the best way... stands out as an especially affecting delicacy about the thrills and pitfalls of exploring who one is." (Read the full review...) 263 words, 11/25/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...the writer and director Céline Sciamma is operating in a different tradition, that of the art cinema... The story that emerges is programmatic and largely unsurprising, but these children give it messiness, joy and life." (Read the full review...) 609 words, 11/18/11
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