A very broad annoying and overemotional little drama...

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2005

These character live in an unblemished neighborhood, where everyone has bite-sized problems that can easily be resolved with a few kind words, a hug, and some tears.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Dec 6, 2004

Every plot development is telegraphed from a mile away, and every character acts in the most obvious manner possible.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Sep 6, 2003

Begins in the vein of a Joe Dante suburban satire but ends like a nightmare of Chris Columbus poppycock.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 9, 2003

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 18, 2002

At least it's a viable alternative to the usually predominate brainless super-charged kids fare that's thrown on the big screen. And for that, Treu's cinematic "little secret" is worth telling out loud.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 15, 2002

Few parents [the kind likely to have made Little Secrets and to whom it seems primarily aimed] will find anything objectionable in this sanitized after-school special-esque of a film, lately that's progress.

| Original Score: B | Sep 13, 2002

The kids in this syrupy family picture are spunky tykes and the adults are dolts, but Wood is worth watching because she's so clearly ready to play nobody's girl but her own.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 5, 2002

There are a lot of movies out there made for fourteen-year-old boys, a ton of movies made for six-year-old kids, this movie is made for ten-year-old girls and for what it is, I really like it.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2002

This is simply good filmmaking, and deserving of your attention.

| Original Score: A | Aug 26, 2002

Little Secrets is a sweet little movie, and you don't have to keep that a secret.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2002

To a large degree, Little Secrets succeeds in a valiant effort to portray a teens struggling with the inevitable pitfalls along the bumpy road to adulthood.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 23, 2002

What you end up with are a bunch of kids acting not like kids, but how adults who've lost all sense of what it was like to be a kid think kids behave.

| Aug 23, 2002

The movie's chipper charms, and its steadfast determination to present an alternative to overly merchandised multiplex fare (there's nary a pop song or product placement here), ultimately win out.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 23, 2002

A touching film that will make audiences smile and cry at young characters who are learning about love and confession.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2002

It somewhat breaks the tone when Emily admits, 'Mom is very anal,' but then Emily is anal, and so -- nicely -- is the movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 23, 2002

It's a beguiling exploration of friendship, trust, truth, insecurity and, yes, secrets.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2002

Stick with it and you may find some unexpected pleasures here, especially performances by two adolescent stars who elevate the film above some often-shaky writing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 23, 2002