The film is quiet but vibrant, and Ira Sachs does a lovely job coaxing images to life out of stillness, and tenderness out of situations that might seem barren of it.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 8, 2017

As a referendum on gentrification in Brooklyn, the movie can occasionally be a bit tedious. But the entire cast is strong, especially Michael Barbieri.

| Mar 16, 2017

Its smallness makes it grand and moving. These are the things, these little moments, decisions and consequences that most human lives are made of, after all.

| Dec 30, 2016

Ira Sachs is a director of uncommon empathy and insight. His latest explores the perils of gentrification and the wisdom of the young.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 29, 2016

As a picture of ticking intergenerational lives and their complex movements, it's as exact as a watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2016

There are no cliches here.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 9, 2016

Little Men is a deceptively intimate drama that presents itself as a quirky coming-of-age story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2016

Sachs captures the concentrated joy of youthful larks and loyalty but he is as wise as Fassbinder ever was to the impact of economic and social pressures on our emotional choices.

| Sep 27, 2016

Sachs's preoccupation with real estate may be a trifle bourgeois, but the films that result are finely tooled little gems.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2016

This understated drama thumbs its nose at the business of gentrification with delicately calculated movements.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2016

Following up Love Is Strange with another slice of urban bohemia, Sachs' latest is another gem that's full of heart and warmth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2016

Beguiling and sad but also a tough pill to swallow, it's about good people reluctantly competing for what they want, and how circumstances can be a friendship's best friend, but also its worst.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2016

Little Men is composed with scrupulous observational intelligence and care. It is really engaging.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 22, 2016

The film's sheer delicacy exerts a continuing fascination.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 21, 2016

Quiet but engrossing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2016

Shoring together small moments from the lives of believable characters, in a manner free of special effects and fluky plotting, and with the same dramatic and visual gusto one would apply to an epic is what independent filmmaking should be all about.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2016

As in the films of the French New Wave's Eric Rohmer, nothing cloying happens here, nothing plainly engineered to elicit emotions. But emotions are elicited - moral and ethical concerns are addressed, examined, defined.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 2, 2016

Nobody's a monster here, and that's the subtle, aching rub of Little Men.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2016

Sachs doesn't push the tragic aspects of "Little Men," but they're there, looming behind the life-goes-on vibe of the final scenes and waiting for you to work it out on the way home.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2016

"Little Men," barely 80 minutes without its end credits, feels right in its size and scope, even when you wouldn't mind an extra beat or scene or two for each character.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2016