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Its meditative pace and low-key approach may prove too ponderous for some, but Hide Your Smiling Faces will cast a potent spell on viewers patient enough to let it unfold.
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Hide Your Smiling Faces is a beautifully shot, highly stylised portrait of American adolescence. August 1, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Hide Your Smiling Faces is a beautifully shot, highly stylised portrait of American adolescence.
Geoffrey Macnab
Ripe with telling details and atmosphere. July 31, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Ripe with telling details and atmosphere.
Leslie Felperin
Short on answers, but asks lots of questions. July 31, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Short on answers, but asks lots of questions.
Alex King
The landscapes are the best part of the film's power: woodlands grey with mist and rain; seasons grudging with their colours; a woody gorge spanned by a mouldering, spectacular viaduct that becomes a character - a kind of devil ex machina - all its own. July 31, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The landscapes are the best part of the film's power: woodlands grey with mist and rain; seasons grudging with their colours; a woody gorge spanned by a mouldering, spectacular viaduct that becomes a character - a kind of devil ex machina - all its own.
Nigel Andrews
[Features an] outsider perspective, authentic locations, unforced naturalism, and fresh, improvisatory work by first-time actors. April 10, 2014 | Full Review…
[Features an] outsider perspective, authentic locations, unforced naturalism, and fresh, improvisatory work by first-time actors.
J. R. Jones
There's a startling stillness about the film, especially the opening scenes, that becomes a character in itself and helps to avoid softness. April 3, 2014 | Rating: 3/4
There's a startling stillness about the film, especially the opening scenes, that becomes a character in itself and helps to avoid softness.
John Hartl
For those who have deep and meaningful experiences with bereavement, it is difficult to fathom that this film won't be an absolutely remarkable view. September 10, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4.0 | Full Review…
For those who have deep and meaningful experiences with bereavement, it is difficult to fathom that this film won't be an absolutely remarkable view.
Richard Propes
Hide Your Smiling Faces is remarkable for the dread it keeps at a slow simmer from the first shot to the last. August 29, 2019 | Full Review…
Hide Your Smiling Faces is remarkable for the dread it keeps at a slow simmer from the first shot to the last.
Amy Taubin
While it may meander a little on occasion, the film is full of small yet hugely revealing observations regarding the trials of adolescence. April 3, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
While it may meander a little on occasion, the film is full of small yet hugely revealing observations regarding the trials of adolescence.
Adam Lowes
By showing and not telling, Carbone creates a profoundly tender work made all the more affecting by his young stars' effortless performances. June 7, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
By showing and not telling, Carbone creates a profoundly tender work made all the more affecting by his young stars' effortless performances.
Amanda Waltz
Despite its languid pacing, there's an underlying unease that never entirely relaxes its grip. November 5, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Despite its languid pacing, there's an underlying unease that never entirely relaxes its grip.
Chris Buckle
The long silences and overdone symbolism make this feel like a hodgepodge of Mud, King of Summer and just about every other American indie film. August 15, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The long silences and overdone symbolism make this feel like a hodgepodge of Mud, King of Summer and just about every other American indie film.
David Edwards
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