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By Steve Dollar (16) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 30 Mar 2014

Traces of classic coming-of-age dramas such as Stand by Me and River's Edge are evoked in this lyrical and low-key reflection on sudden mortality…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 30 Mar 2014

It's possible for a movie to confirm the innate filmmaking gifts of its helmer while still not quite succeeding as a standalone film…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 28 Mar 2014

It's not just these children's smiling faces that are hidden here - it's everything that might make you want to search out the meaning behind them…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 28 Mar 2014

What elevates Hide Your Smiling Faces is Carbone's gentle, lyrical touch where other filmmakers would have turned the same thematic concerns…

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By Tomas Hachard (101) for NPR (1,713) on 28 Mar 2014

Hide Your Smiling Faces is a striking companion piece to It Felt Like Love, another recent coming-of-age story, this time about two young girls,…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 27 Mar 2014

As the local boys (there are no girls) explore the natural world in summer, this gorgeously photographed movie bombards you with imagined scents…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 27 Mar 2014

Smiling Faces is a strongly promising first effort, introducing a talented filmmaker who’s still in the process of finding his own voice…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 26 Mar 2014

The many silences in Hide Your Smiling Faces don’t speak quite loudly enough, and the film ultimately gets bogged down by its own ponderousness…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 26 Mar 2014

Unfortunately, Hide Your Smiling Faces is so slow it could use a few action sequences to speed things up…

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By Caitlin Hughes (4) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 26 Mar 2014

Ultimately, it's difficult to avoid drawing comparisons to Stand By Me. And yes, there are many…

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By Tom Huddleston (600) for Time Out London (344) on 25 Mar 2014

This microbudget indie about a pair of brothers in small-town USA looks great, sports strong performances and doesn’t outstay its welcome…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Mar 2014

At times a tad too oblique for its own good, Hide Your Smiling Faces nonetheless casts a potent spell, delivering a disquieting portrait of…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 Mar 2014

Featuring two exceptional lead performances from these two boys, first rate beauty-in-ugliness photography and an unusually extraordinary command…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for Film.com (1,892) on 25 Mar 2014

The landscape is a definitive presence throughout the film, which has almost no music and very little dialogue…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 25 Mar 2014

Assisted by the superb performances of his two young, refreshingly unaffected leads, Carbone has a profound understanding of the close but…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 Mar 2014

Carbone's script doesn't tell a story so much as watch the fluctuations in emotional energy here, quietly observing activities both directly…

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By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Mar 2014

Daniel Patrick Carbone's pensive style, so dotted with ethnographic detail, is interested in revealing a world in flux, but his fixation on…

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By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Mar 2014

Carbone minimizes dialogue and focuses instead on gestural specificity; he makes a useful inventory of boys-will-be-boys behavior — wrestling…

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By Marty Mapes (591) for Movie Habit (892) on 09 Jan 2014

Puberty and death haunt a rural New England summer…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 25 Nov 2013

A poetic and tense debut that explores not so much the coming of age as the coming of mortality…

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