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Critic Reviews for Sidewalk Stories
All Critics (7) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (7)
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The interplay between Lane and his real-life daughter Nicole Alysia-who plays the foundling-is touchingly tender.
October 22, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
Laughs, romance, and even something of an adventure flower in Lane's New York.
November 5, 2013 | Full Review… -
Charles Lane's follies are enmeshed within bigger pictures of reality, reestablishing the film's thesis of comedy as a mode of survival.
November 5, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… -
Lane is endlessly inventive in the ways he finds to create humorous situations and tell his story through images, and the soundtrack music, by Marc Marder, reinforces everything that happens.
May 24, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… -
Lane's heartfelt and endearing film plays like a time capsule love letter to the eternal city.
November 3, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
It's funny, it's touching, it's very clever and it has a quite remarkable lightness of touch.
March 26, 2020 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Sidewalk Stories
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Nov 11, 2013While there is rioting happening over a taxi on Wall Street, things are much more peaceful a couple miles north as a homeless street artist(Charles Lane, who also wrote and directed) plies his trade while waiting for the IFC Center to open. As he observes the world going by, he also witnesses a brutal murder in an alley. During which, he shields an infant girl(Nicole Alysia) from danger. First off, I applaud Charles Lane trying to do something different by doing something retro where he gives the homeless characters the only spoken words of "Sidewalk Stories." And I am always a sucker for views of a bygone New York City, in this case, from a movie made in 1989. However, there is also the sad irony of a film steeped in realism having a story, especially involving one incident, that does not really ring true at the same time.Walter M Super Reviewer
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Homeless Raver: | Anybody got a quarter? A nickel? A dime? You know what it's like to be homeless? |
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