'...the 134 minute length is justified by the eloquent way that Field skilfully draws out the mores of the suburban community...'

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2023

...a slow-moving yet mostly engrossing drama...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 24, 2022

Little Children shines through its flaws to deliver some of this season's most adult entertainment, a chilly send-up of an America we can all see out our windows or through our video screens.

| May 19, 2020

Little Children is a superb adaptation, which is, nevertheless, slightly let down by too much exposition that comes from a desire to give too many characters meaningful time on screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2018

That a movie can inspire smirks in the same scene where a potential predator is seen scuba diving in the community swimming pool underneath hundreds of young children is one of the most notable feats of any modern motion picture.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 26, 2016

Playing up her sturdiness, her furry dark brows and the wiry unruliness of her old-gold hair, Winslet is the best Emma Bovary I've seen-even if she's named Sarah, not Emma.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2014

More than just another dissection of suburban sexual frustration, its concern with children, parents and those of us who lie somewhere in-between make Little Children a minor masterpiece.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 27, 2012

It's not necessarily a cautionary tale, but more a look within a surface utopia that doesn't really exist.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 9, 2011

As commentary on our time, it may be accurate. As movie drama, it isn't so much overheated as reheated in the microwave on high.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 6, 2010

Its antiseptic textures merely whimper 'Oscar clip'

| Aug 28, 2009

Bereft of a protagonist, the movie breaks down under the weight of absurd voice-over narration and an exploitative ending that is as indefensibly wrongheaded as it is cheap.

| Original Score: D | Apr 24, 2009

Blame Field (remember, Perrotta also wrote the knifelike Election), for facing the material too squarely.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

A risky and rewarding art film, but definitely for grown-ups.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 24, 2008

Little Children is about as close as a movie can get to literature %u2014 rich, nuanced, erudite and multi-layered.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008

The leads are self-delusional, secretive, dependent, nakedly desperate at times, and all fascinating.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 10, 2007

The film is populated with such self-obsessed, distasteful characters, it's hard to care how or why any of them finds happiness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Provides a taut commentary on hypocrisy, human interaction, and the lies we tell ourselves...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2007

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| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 22, 2007

Peyton Place with a perv!

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 2, 2007

...a flawed work that sparkles only sporadically.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 20, 2007