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Critics Consensus: 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.
Critic Consensus: 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.
All Critics (46) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (8)
[Features an] outsider perspective, authentic locations, unforced naturalism, and fresh, improvisatory work by first-time actors.
There's a startling stillness about the film, especially the opening scenes, that becomes a character in itself and helps to avoid softness.
Traces of classic coming-of-age dramas such as Stand by Me and River's Edge are evoked in this lyrical and low-key reflection on sudden mortality and childhood's end.
Quickly and assuredly, writer-director Carbone puts us in the mood of these languorous summer days.
This lyrical drama announces the arrival of a talented young director with a keen grasp of youth; a man who presents a truthful vision of how death impacts soon-to-be men differently depending on their ages.
It's not just these children's smiling faces that are hidden here - it's everything that might make you want to search out the meaning behind them.
By showing and not telling, Carbone creates a profoundly tender work made all the more affecting by his young stars' effortless performances.
Despite its languid pacing, there's an underlying unease that never entirely relaxes its grip.
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.
Expect Daniel Patrick Carbone to have an illustrious career. And even if he doesn't, he's given us one perfectly polished jewel here.
Hide Your Smiling Faces is a beautifully shot, highly stylised portrait of American adolescence.
With a low-key pace and extremely loose plot, this introspective drama gets deep under the skin as it explores a pivotal summer for two brothers.
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