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Movie Info

Children around the world share their thoughts on a variety of subjects, such as love, war, family, religion and the future.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Genevieve Bailey
Producer:

Genevieve Bailey
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 12, 2014 limited
Box Office (Gross USA):

$256.1K
Runtime:

1h 34m

Cast & Crew

Genevieve Bailey
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Genevieve Bailey
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News & Interviews for I Am Eleven

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Critic Reviews for I Am Eleven

All Critics (24) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (5)

Regardless of background, sophistication or home country, the kids all share a lovely sense of open-heartedness. They all talk about being part of a collective, and see the human race as a large extended family.

October 2, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Stephanie Merry
Washington Post
What emerges is a group of kids who are generally content but must confront the often confusing time between childhood and adolescence.

September 29, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Thomas Lee
San Francisco Chronicle
An enjoyable mishmash of young voices and faces poised between childhood and teenagerdom.

September 29, 2014 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
A smart, enjoyable portrait.

September 18, 2014 | Full Review…

Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
The project could easily have seemed like a smarmy Nickelodeon special or some variant of "Kids Say the Darndest Things," but Ms. Bailey's willingness to let the children talk and to let the viewer impose broader meaning elevates it.

September 11, 2014 | Full Review…

Neil Genzlinger
New York Times
The feature-length film ultimately becomes repetitive, with the lack of contextual information about the subjects' lives rendering the proceedings shallow.

September 11, 2014 | Full Review…

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
A bad film with good intentions.

November 27, 2019 | Rating: 1.7/5 | Full Review…

David Harris
Spectrum Culture
Bailey proves that talking to the right 11-year-old can be the most educational and uplifting thing an adult can do.

September 11, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

John Lui
The Straits Times (Singapore)
Bailey clearly has a gift for intimacy, as she has no trouble getting inside the homes and, you could say, heads of her subjects.

August 25, 2015 | Full Review…

Ken Eisner
Georgia Straight
Charming, thought-provoking global docu about childhood.

September 15, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Sandie Angulo Chen
Common Sense Media
The film is pleasant enough as a facile anthropological exercise, though it reveals little insight.

September 13, 2014 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Mallory Andrews
Movie Mezzanine
Pearls of wisdom from the mouths of babes uttered with such heartfelt conviction that you want to believe them, even when you're a little skeptical.

September 11, 2014 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…

Kam Williams
Baret News