For those who have deep and meaningful experiences with bereavement, it is difficult to fathom that this film won't be an absolutely remarkable view.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 10, 2020

Hide Your Smiling Faces is remarkable for the dread it keeps at a slow simmer from the first shot to the last.

| Aug 29, 2019

While it may meander a little on occasion, the film is full of small yet hugely revealing observations regarding the trials of adolescence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2019

By showing and not telling, Carbone creates a profoundly tender work made all the more affecting by his young stars' effortless performances.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 7, 2016

Despite its languid pacing, there's an underlying unease that never entirely relaxes its grip.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2014

The long silences and overdone symbolism make this feel like a hodgepodge of Mud, King of Summer and just about every other American indie film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2014

Expect Daniel Patrick Carbone to have an illustrious career. And even if he doesn't, he's given us one perfectly polished jewel here.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2014

Hide Your Smiling Faces is a beautifully shot, highly stylised portrait of American adolescence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2014

With a low-key pace and extremely loose plot, this introspective drama gets deep under the skin as it explores a pivotal summer for two brothers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2014

Paced with steady assurance, this gentle bildungsroman is a impressive debut from director Daniel Patrick Carbone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2014

A promising first film from Daniel Patrick Carbone but it is awfully slow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2014

Ripe with telling details and atmosphere.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2014

Short on answers, but asks lots of questions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2014

The slow burning, coming-of-age tale lacks momentum and struggles to engage with the audience on an emotional level.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2014

The landscapes are the best part of the film's power: woodlands grey with mist and rain; seasons grudging with their colours; a woody gorge spanned by a mouldering, spectacular viaduct that becomes a character - a kind of devil ex machina - all its own.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2014

Moments of more traditional light relief aside, Carbone distinguishes himself from the pack with a debut that's for the most part brooding and spare.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2014

Providing the magnetic counter-balance for the plot's drift, Ryan Jones and Nathan Varnson give natural performances as small-town brothers rocked by a friend's death.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 28, 2014

Hide Your Smiling Faces is a magnificent portrait and Carbone's paintbrush laid strokes of love, anger, confusion, and a rainbow of emotions to indulge the audience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 4, 2014

A meditation on death about two young brothers dealing with the sudden death of a friend and all the other losses around them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2014

Carbone has a voice, an eye, and one would guess had a boyhood in a mild wild like the one the brothers eddy through. The elegant, of-course-that's-the-world cinematography is by Nick Bentgen.

| Apr 11, 2014