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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyLos Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyMcLaughlin, who has a good eye for the minimal, manages to bring out the haunting beauty of empty places littered with the discards of forgotten lives.
- 75Slant MagazineBill WeberSlant MagazineBill WeberConfronting the concept of alienness in a California desert town, this modest tapestry finds equivalent dignity in history-conscious travelers and natives weighed down by roots or inertia.
- 75Not until the film's surprisingly touching finale do we learn the source of that friction, in a delicately handled sequence that retroactively floods the story with satisfying context.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNot often have I been more certain of the direction a movie is heading, or more wrong. Littlerock, a sensitive indie feature by Mike Ott, plays fair. I was misled only by my own cynicism.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceAtsuko the character doesn't speak English; Atsuko the actress, speaking mostly un-subtitled Japanese when she speaks at all, gives a performance that's a marvel of nonverbal reaction.
- 60Boxoffice MagazineSara SchieronBoxoffice MagazineSara SchieronThe message is nearly as slight as the presentation and just as hard to pin down, but even when tackling something as sharp edged and soft bellied as exclusion Littlerock is not without its pleasures.
- 60Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearThe ugly Americanism gets piled on thick - racists, dickwads and ignoramuses, oh my! - but there's a melancholy to this indie's cross-cultural explorations and communication breakdowns that compensates for the broader swipes.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyWell-crafted picture has a nice sense of place and rudderless youth, though in the end, simply too little happens for the story to have much resonance.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickRambling, mildly engaging micro-budgeted indie.