True enough, it's make-believe, but to believe in make-believe, you do have to be firmly on board in some way. Otherwise, it's just nonsense.

| Jan 30, 2018

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It's a fun idea, but quite awkwardly staged and, in the end, not particularly engaging.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 12, 2008

The script is not so much written as assembled, anecdote by anecdote. As a result, you never quite settle in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2008

It's a mildly startling choice of subject matter, but Jennings takes for granted that even the most innocent cineastes have their sadistic side.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2008

Jennings is clearly having a wonderful time recreating the fantasies of his youth, but sometimes his perspective get a little too inbred, and the picture suffers for it.

| May 30, 2008

We cringe and laugh at -- and are ultimately moved by -- their clumsiness and innocence. And it endears us to the Rambo films in ways we never could have anticipated.

| May 16, 2008

Son of Rambow is an inventive and amusing coming-of-age movie that deftly entwines elements of farce and fantasy, rebelliousness and sentiment, while paying seriously funny tribute to the transcendent power of art.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 16, 2008

These two boys have, along with writer-director Garth Jennings, turned a coming-of-age story into a treatise on both the fragility of artistic vision and the danger of popular opinion.

| Original Score: B | May 16, 2008

Funny and sweet and guaranteed to flood you with good feeling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 16, 2008

After the movie, I imagined its writer-director, Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) being more than a little like Will, and the movie uncannily similar to one of Will's comic epics.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2008

Son of Rambow is filled with small surprises and treasures, a veritable bounty of delight.

| Original Score: A | May 13, 2008

The rapport between the two rogue cineastes is enough to carry both films: the one they're making and the one Jennings is trying to make.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2008

Milner and Poulter are a lot of fun to watch, a pair of first-timer naturals who don't reek of Dakota Fanning Young Actorliness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2008

Plenty happens, but little of it advances the action, until the finale, which is lovely, but would have been a lot lovelier after 35 minutes, not 90.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 9, 2008

Few movies have captured the intoxicating effect of pop culture on kids better than Son of Rambow.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 9, 2008

I can't imagine a better movie for children and adults to enjoy together.

| May 9, 2008

It's an absolute delight.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 9, 2008

Like a lot of those home movies we made as children, Son of Rambow has the best of intentions and a great set-up, but the ending falls apart.

| May 9, 2008