Spending about 90 minutes with these two does eventually warm the heart, even if they're stuck in a paint-by-numbers plot.
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10/06/05
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Little Manhattan (2005)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:20
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Little Manhattan is a sweet story of young love that provides an enlightening if pragmatic view on love and courtship.
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Reviews for Little Manhattan
What a treasure -- a funny, tart, romantic comedy about tweens suffering the pangs of first love. It makes the cityscape an essential part of the romance, like a junior, vintage Woody Allen.
09/30/05
Top CriticThis adorable comedy will appeal to all those who loved and experienced giddy feelings during "A Little Romance."
09/25/05
Nicely well-made, although it'll probably only appeal to young girls.
05/27/06
Reliving the roller-coaster ride of young love from the point of view of these phenomenal young actors offers a humorous escape from the adult world, where the little things in relationships are often taken for granted.
09/30/05
it isn’t about kids playing dress-up and talking like world-weary grown-ups. It’s about knowing the right time to hold someone’s hand
10/28/05
This little family movie wants to be adorable and ALMOST gets there, but suffers from trying too hard to be too cute.
02/17/06
[It's] as if the filmmakers (maybe without even realizing it) are mocking his emotions, implying that kids are just kids, and only think they feel what they’re feeling.
12/01/05
A totem to white privilege.
08/29/05
Who is this movie's target audience, anyway? Preteens will be bored stupid, while adults are unlikely to want to revisit puppy love in such grueling detail.
09/27/05
Top CriticDelightful look at two kids' first romance.
09/20/05
Seeks to be a whimsical premise but, except for a few moments, proves ponderous instead.
09/30/05
Top CriticA moderately charming comedy depicting a fumbling prepubescent first romance in a beautiful, fairy-tale version of the borough.
09/30/05
Top CriticThis small-scale, perfectly acted family film listens in on all the doubts and desires of an 11-year-old as he confronts new feelings about a girl he has known practically all his life.
09/30/05
Top CriticTodas las personas mayores han comenzado por ser niños, pero pocas de ellas lo recuerdan.
01/07/06
A beautiful, layered, uplifting, dizzyingly romantic motion picture. This is one of the year's very best films, and one of its most unexpected cinematic treasures.
10/11/05
It begins to wear a little thin in a feature format.
09/30/05
Top CriticA big surprise, a comedy detailing the angst of first love with rare candor.
09/30/05
Top CriticIt's the little things such as confusing voices on the phone that show you that the husband-wife team of director Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett are paying close attention to what kids do, say and go through.
09/29/05
Top CriticThis grotesquely manipulative bit of whimsy is like sucking on a sugar cube for ninety minutes when each of your teeth is suffering from an exposed nerve.
10/03/05
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