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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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Ripe with telling details and atmosphere. Jul 31, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Ripe with telling details and atmosphere.
Leslie Felperin
Short on answers, but asks lots of questions. Jul 31, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Short on answers, but asks lots of questions.
Alex King
[Features an] outsider perspective, authentic locations, unforced naturalism, and fresh, improvisatory work by first-time actors. Apr 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. Apr 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
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. Mar 31, 2014 | Full Review…
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.
Steve Dollar
Quickly and assuredly, writer-director Carbone puts us in the mood of these languorous summer days. Mar 30, 2014 | Full Review…
Quickly and assuredly, writer-director Carbone puts us in the mood of these languorous summer days.
Tomas Hachard
While it may meander a little on occasion, the film is full of small yet hugely revealing observations regarding the trials of adolescence. Apr 2, 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. Jun 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. Nov 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. Aug 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
Expect Daniel Patrick Carbone to have an illustrious career. And even if he doesn't, he's given us one perfectly polished jewel here. Aug 4, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Expect Daniel Patrick Carbone to have an illustrious career. And even if he doesn't, he's given us one perfectly polished jewel here.
Jonathan Romney
Hide Your Smiling Faces is a beautifully shot, highly stylised portrait of American adolescence. Aug 1, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Hide Your Smiling Faces is a beautifully shot, highly stylised portrait of American adolescence.
Geoffrey Macnab
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