Little Sister is an indie family drama about change and reconciliation, but it's instilled with a poignant regard for the moment, too .

| Aug 10, 2017

[A] fine, darkly poignant tale of a conflicted young nun-in-training facing her own version of "hope and change."

| Oct 27, 2016

Zach Clark goes down dark-comic alleys, but he's made a transfixing film about a dysfunctional family that looks touchingly and unnervingly like yours and mine.

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

Little Sister delivers a charming black sheep tale rich with tenderness, raw with pain, and spiked with humor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2016

A quiet and gentle film, emotional but not manipulatively sentimental, sad but not nihilistic, Marilyn Manson epigram and Goth-font chapter markers notwithstanding.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2016

Flirting with sitcommy high jinks, Clark instead gives us a bittersweet cocktail of soul-weary defeat and unassuming vigor.

| Oct 13, 2016

A strange, spiky movie that refuses to beg for our affection, "Little Sister," the fifth feature from Zach Clark, molds the classic homecoming drama into a quirky reconciliation between faith and family.

| Oct 13, 2016

Short, sweet, and nowhere near as prickly as it seems on the surface, Little Sister plays best when it's not trying to coat its appealing brand of distorted realism with a punk rock sheen.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 12, 2016

A slight, sweetly cynical indie dramedy about family and belonging and the ways we cope with life's disappointments.

| Original Score: B | Oct 12, 2016

The film's attempt at political insight and portrayal of social malaise are meant to give it the illusion of depth.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 12, 2016

With its blend of terrifyingly intense family bonds and the howling furies of the world outside, this is a great American political film.

| Oct 10, 2016

A touching story of forgiveness, acceptance and moving forward.

| Original Score: B | Sep 9, 2016

Another indie film that leads me to wonder why Addison Timlin isn't a star yet.

| Aug 1, 2016

The movie could use a bit more focus (it's got three or four too many endings), but it's held aloft by its tiny moments of truth.

| Jun 18, 2016

Little Sister plays up its goofiness to prevent your being poisoned with melancholy - which the characters unanimously exhibit. Cynics among us will recognize this as a lovely comedy; but the cockeyed may consider it miserable.

| Mar 22, 2016