One of the best romantic comedies of the year (for all ages), Mark Levin's capable intelligent direction gives us an intelligently mature and layered film with a beauty and freshness that transcends time...

| Nov 14, 2019

Sweetly insightful about how mindblowingly horrifying it is to find oneself with unwanted and unfamiliar romantic feelings, if one is a boy, at least.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 17, 2015

Refreshingly realistic tween tale of first love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2006

A Woody Allen-style New York romcom, only with eleven year-olds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2006

Nicely well-made, although it'll probably only appeal to young girls.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2006

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 12, 2006

Little Manhattan is the cutest, funniest, most heartbreaking and inspiring movie you will see all year

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 6, 2006

The freshness is authentic even when the whimsy grows hard to bear. The two leads are precocious in a way more typical of child actors than actual children.

| Mar 10, 2006

This little family movie wants to be adorable and ALMOST gets there, but suffers from trying too hard to be too cute.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 17, 2006

Todas las personas mayores han comenzado por ser nios, pero pocas de ellas lo recuerdan.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2006

As directed by Mark Levin, Little Manhattan is an endearing, affectionately humorous and even lyrical depiction of the dawning of adolescence amid the privileged.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 2, 2005

Becomes something quite startling -- a sweet story about first love that manages to be a great date movie for adults, too.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2005

[It's] as if the filmmakers (maybe without even realizing it) are mocking his emotions, implying that kids are just kids, and only think they feel what they're feeling.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2005

it isn't about kids playing dress-up and talking like world-weary grown-ups. It's about knowing the right time to hold someone's hand

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2005

A beautiful, layered, uplifting, dizzyingly romantic motion picture. This is one of the year's very best films, and one of its most unexpected cinematic treasures.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 11, 2005

Spending about 90 minutes with these two does eventually warm the heart, even if they're stuck in a paint-by-numbers plot.

| Oct 6, 2005

This grotesquely manipulative bit of whimsy is like sucking on a sugar cube for ninety minutes when each of your teeth is suffering from an exposed nerve.

| Original Score: D | Oct 3, 2005

A moderately charming comedy depicting a fumbling prepubescent first romance in a beautiful, fairy-tale version of the borough.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 30, 2005