The various voices in Little Voice are so rich, so entertaining and so endearingly outrageous that it barely matters that half the time we have no idea what they're going on about.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2023

Little Voice, a touching comedy that combines slapstick showmanship and intelligent acting with an amazing musical performance, engages with the quirky appeal of The Full Monty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2023

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

Despite many good scenes of whimsy, humor, and pathos, not to mantion great mimicry of Garland, Dietrich, and others, the movie is trying to do too much and the last reel is weak, contrived and burdened with a fake romance and upbeat ending.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 23, 2009

A small picture with a big heart.

| Jun 19, 2008

Little Voice is based on Jim Cartwright's play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, which premiered in 1992 at the National Theatre in London.

| Mar 28, 2006

A lively if finally rather cruel comic fantasy.

| Feb 9, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 14, 2004

has the same semi-whimsical and semi-earthy tone as director Mark Herman's 'Brassed Off.' The last quarter of the story, however, seems strangely out of sync with the mostly bubbly set-up.

| Jul 3, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2003

Rises to... delirious heights with Horrocks' performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 29, 2003

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: C | Jan 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Director Mark Herman (Brassed Off) uses his camera with flair to free the story from the confines of its stage-play origin.

| Oct 15, 2002

The ideas in "Little Voice" are musty Broadway bombast which Blethyn delivers at a shrieking pitch.

| Jun 5, 2002

Little Voice loses its way at points, especially in its hurried, portentous ending. Yet it never obscures the blinding talent of Horrocks.

| Mar 24, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002