Review of Little Birds (2011) by A.o. Scott for New York Times — 28 Aug 2012
I don't think Mr. James intended to make a creepy, exploitative movie about teenage runaways - or, for that matter, a moralistic, cautionary tale of girls gone bad. But those are the default categories that Little Birds stumbles toward, perhaps because the filmmaker has not found a cogent way to channel his curiosity or his empathy.
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This review of Little Birds (2011) was written by A.o. Scott and published by New York Times on 28 Aug 2012.
Little Birds has generally received mixed reviews.
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