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By Rebecca Liu (10) for Another Gaze (53) on 24 May 2018

The film exposes the emptiness at the heart of the American self-made man…

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By Alberto Luchini (60) for El Mundo (Spain) (301) on 17 May 2018

The brightest moments happen when an aged and disgustingly charming Steve Buscemi appears on screen, the least with the boy's poetic and intimate…

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By Nando Salvá (25) for Cinemanía (Spain) (558) on 13 May 2018

Once again [director Andrew Haigh] does not waste a scene or a line of dialogue. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Alternate Ending (372) on 12 May 2018

A clearheaded, unsentimental portrayal of the perilous life of poor Americans living outside of the social mainstream…

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By Maximilian Von Thun (26) for CineVue (2,163) on 09 May 2018

Neither falsely optimistic nor hopeless, Lean on Pete is a deeply humane film that is never anything less than believable…

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By Molly Laich (115) for Missoula Independent (105) on 09 May 2018

At its heart, this is a story about wounded people stuck in unhappy lives and all the many and terrible ways they try and fail and try again…

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By Tom Shone (158) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 08 May 2018

A listless but lyrical, sometimes touching picaresque across the mesas of Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming, where Charley runs into the forgotten…

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By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 08 May 2018

After the long, slow burn of the first half, Lean on Pete takes a Walkabout-like veer into the desert void, and like an old horse getting a…

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By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 08 May 2018

A pleasing cross between All The Pretty Horses and The Straight Story, with a rite-of-passage dollop of American Honey…

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By Ella Kemp (95) for Sight and Sound (827) on 08 May 2018

For all its sometimes over-episodic structure, Haigh has crafted a quietly affecting coming-of-age journey tale sustained by a central performance…

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By Philip Kemp (186) for Sight and Sound (827) on 08 May 2018

For all its sometimes over-episodic structure, Haigh has crafted a quietly affecting coming-of-age journey tale sustained by a central performance…

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By Marcos Gandía (63) for Sensacine (386) on 07 May 2018

Lean on Pete's brand is intimacy; there's nothing more intimate than figures cut out on the horizon, a sunset for two. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By Dan Lybarger (786) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 06 May 2018

It also doesn't hurt that [Andrew] Haigh finds something redeeming about his characters, even if Charley can be foolish and Del underhanded…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 06 May 2018

Andrew Haigh... infuses the film with warmth and honesty, facing the darkest moments head-on as the only way to get through them…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 05 May 2018

A performance of remarkable depth, candour and vulnerability by rising star Charlie Plummer lies at the heart of this terrifically moving fourth…

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By Matthew Passantino (89) for Film Threat (5,156) on 05 May 2018

The entire story is told with a quiet but punctuating lyricism, avoiding cliches and obvious histrionics to play up the drama of the story…

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By Andy Lea (545) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 04 May 2018

Plummer's expressive performance keeps us holding on until the touching final furlong…

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By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 03 May 2018

Haigh's new film has the substance and emotional heft to be considered a masterpiece…

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By Jo Berry (104) for Movies4Kids (46) on 03 May 2018

The cinematography is stunning, from the shots of a boy & his horse against the open spaces of the mid-West to the dusty, drab and somehow…

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By Owen Richards (17) for The Arts Desk (640) on 03 May 2018

The camera doesn't show off, but finds moments of quiet beauty across the different landscapes…

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