i actually liked it, despite being stressful and depressing

For being Nia DeCosta's first movie since I've already seen her works on Candyman and The Marvels, she did a damn good first movie to start her career especially when she was just in college, too. Great acting, a good deep story especially when it's based on true events over at Noth Dekota when it comes to doing whatever it takes to live through a poverty-stricken town. Sure, some scenes do feel slow but those are just minor nitpicks for me. Yet the only thing important as it went was the sisters pushing through so that they are happy for one another even for their mother who'd recently died and for their child to live a well loved life. Plus, good to see Lance Reddick - bless his soul - to deliver some good scenes when Tessa Thompson comes around to see him. 9/10.

What a steaming pile of dog sh*t. I want my hour and forty-five minutes of life back. I pray this director is never allowed to work again.

I watched this picture after watching Candyman which was expertly directed by Nia DaCosta. Little Woods is her directing debut and while she clearly a filmmaker with much to say, this film felt flat to me. The performances by the two leads are excellent, the story is worthy of being told, but Little Woods and I never connected.

A very dark depressing realistic story of two sisters who are struggling with making their lives better in the midst of a poverty stricken town.

Pfft, 1 hour and 43 minutes of BORING! It is so sad, because this movie had potential in many directions it could have taken.

I like Tessa Thompson and Lily James. They put in good performances in this film. The story was just okay, though. It was rather depressing.

The performers are all doing excellent work and I do appreciate a film that occurs in North Dakota, yet the end results are rather drab and dull. It's hard to stick with it until the end simply because the film wants to feel genuine, yet has certain moments that don't quite match reality. The writing wants to discuss poverty, yet feels as though it was written by someone who never experienced it. All that could be forgiven if the narrative was more engaging, but it just doesn't quite stick the landing.

Incredible performances, writing/direction and grasp of the real world!

Little Woods is well-written and did the almost impossible: made me like Lily James. But different from films like First Cow and The Green Knight, the movie's slow pace bothered me a little bit, and it's quite predictable. It was the first movie written and directed by Nia DaCosta (who is already set to direct Candyman, Captain Marvel 2, and The Marvels), who did very good, and counted with great performances from Lily and Tessa Thompson. Nia knows how to create a tense atmosphere, and it's a good signal as she is now in charge of a horror movie.

Cold and dry, Little Woods comes off like the gloomy Pacific Northwest winter it takes place in. The film is well acted, with an arresting leading job by Tessa Thompson, and leaves viewers with a satisfying, real story.

Slow burn and not many exciting parts. Acting was ok. Wouldn't watch again.

Incredibly slow and very little depth. Life is hard and sometimes we struggle to find a way through. That’s the plot of true movie with very few additions. Lily James is the only reason I watched the whole thing

In the pandemic of 2020, apocalypses have become the escapist/cautionary genre du jour, judging by Contagion's weeks-long run atop the most-watched streaming titles along with a host of other viral classics, zombie and non-zombie alike. The truth is that, for millions of Americans, America itself IS post-apocalyptic, the remnants of a civilization in decline after some unknown collapse at some yet-to-be-determined point in the not-too-distant past, borne out by the election of a man who promised to return America to this mythical era of past Greatness. These millions of Americans, like Ollie and her sister Deb, live precarious lives of quiet desperation, funambulating along a hair-thin line between survival and poverty. When one unforeseen circumstance could pull one under for good, sometimes survival depends on crossing that line. Nowhere is this made more stark than in Little Woods, where uninsured workers are often forced to choose between crippling pain or crushing debt and it costs at least $8000 just to be pregnant (and the nearest family planning clinic is hundreds of miles away), in unblinking juxtaposition with the land of social democracy north of the border, where generic medications and reproductive rights flow like milk and honey. Canada as Canaan and North Dakota as the wilderness. For most of the developed world, Little Woods is dystopian fiction. For millions of Americans, it's all too real.

Tessa Thompson and Lily James carry an otherwise pedestrian film with a pair of powerful performances that make this very watchable. Thompson shows she's a future star with some very oscar-batey scenes in a movie that won't be winning any awards. The story touches on many subjects, but the filmmaker doesn't have the courage to take a stance on anything. It's a frustrating flick with a shotgun finish, but it's not the worse thing if you're stuck inside! Final Score: 6.8/10

I really liked this. Well written and directed, with 2 great co-lead performances. A few tense scenes that I thought would end sadly, and they did not.

There is nothing new here. A view into a down but not out family struggling to get by... bad things happen but in the end, the best-case scenario for all the main characters turns out.

Perfectly good movie, but of course the audience reviews on here skew lower because the usual men can't stand it when other men aren't the primary subjects of a movie.

Low stakes high drama

Great tonal balance all round with ups and downs and danger. Though some of the danger is a touch artificial, it is overall effective.