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By S. Jhoanna Robledo (697) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 07 Jul 2016

Original, moving drama has some disturbing moments…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 07 Jul 2016

Captain Fantastic treats the situation (and Ben) so uncritically and so sympathetically that there is a total disconnect between what is actually…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 06 Jul 2016

Ben is the family’s rock, and Mr. Mortensen gives the story unshakable grounding…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 06 Jul 2016

Captain Fantastic isn’t only one of the year’s best movies, but one of the best cast and best acted, right down to the smaller roles…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 06 Jul 2016

It’s a testament to writer-director Matt Ross, who is probably best known as an actor on shows like Big Love and Silicon Valley, that Captain…

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By Brian Moylan (20) for The Guardian (2,969) on 06 Jul 2016

Not only is it wonderful – it is heartfelt, comedic, gorgeous and just the right amount of sad…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 06 Jul 2016

This could have been a movie the usual people love and the usual people hate…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 06 Jul 2016

By the end, Ross’ initially disarming fusion of cleverness and whimsy has curdled into a dispiritingly familiar mix of sentimentality and…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 06 Jul 2016

Captain Fantastic loses its intriguing premise in a muddle of ideas about the redemptive power of family and the right of all people to live…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 06 Jul 2016

It’s left to Mr…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 06 Jul 2016

Above all else, however, Mortensen gives Captain Fantastic its underlying credibility…

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By Josh Lasser (114) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 06 Jul 2016

It is nearly impossible to watch Captain Fantastic as a dispassionate viewer - the questions it brings up about how to raise children and how…

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By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 06 Jul 2016

Wise and funny, it's got glorious photography by Stephane Fontaine and a tone shot-through with melancholy, loss and regret…

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By Simi Horwitz (83) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 06 Jul 2016

A complicated portrait of a dictatorial father whose radical ideology becomes a vehicle for abuse in an idiosyncratic family…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 06 Jul 2016

To those outside his bubble, it can look at best like a form of child abuse, at worse like a cult: the nuclear family as survivalist militia…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 05 Jul 2016

Despite a frustrating fizzle of a finale, it’s a movie that enthralls the senses and engages the mind for two hours, proving no movie is…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 05 Jul 2016

Gorgeously photographed, and as loosey-goosey as its hero, Captain Fantastic takes some unexpected turns. Is Ben eccentric or irresponsible…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 05 Jul 2016

The film doesn't take sides, but it does fairly, subtly and movingly represent them. Captain Fantastic takes a piece out of you…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 05 Jul 2016

So where’s the line between rigid parental standards and possible abuse…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for Associated Press (1,685) on 05 Jul 2016

The casting director should win an award for finding these truly excellent young performers, who shine alongside the always wonderful Mortensen…

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