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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 11 Apr 2018

At times the film threatens to become relentlessly bleak, but never fully so, thanks in large part to Plummer’s performance…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 11 Apr 2018

Mr…

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By Jeffrey Bloomer (47) for Slate (2,081) on 11 Apr 2018

Not everyone likes a movie that sneaks up on them, so be advised that Lean on Pete is the ugly-cry event of the spring…

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By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 11 Apr 2018

The effortless richness of character that so thoroughly grounded Haigh’s Oscar-nominated 45 Years and his critical darling Weekend is half-heartedly…

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By Carla Meyer (580) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 11 Apr 2018

Buscemi is characteristically likable here, when Del, mercenary in his treatment of human and beast, should not be so likable…

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By Emily Todd Vanderwerff (26) for Vox (725) on 11 Apr 2018

A horse might not be able to feel love for a teenage boy, but Lean on Pete makes sure you know how deeply a teenage boy can feel love for a…

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By Emily Vanderwerff (28) for Vox (725) on 11 Apr 2018

A horse might not be able to feel love for a teenage boy, but Lean on Pete makes sure you know how deeply a teenage boy can feel love for a…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original Cin (1,156) on 10 Apr 2018

Depending on what you want to read into it, Lean On Pete is about the dangerous ease of hitting rock bottom, about the plight of modern manhood…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 Apr 2018

As the film takes deeper and darker turns, it also becomes something special, something unflinchingly honest, something that will punch you…

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By Todd Vanderwerff (134) for Vox (725) on 10 Apr 2018

A horse might not be able to feel love for a teenage boy, but Lean on Pete makes sure you know how deeply a teenage boy can feel love for a…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 10 Apr 2018

It is hard and empathetic and bleak and often beautiful — not far off from a prairie “400 Blows.”…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 10 Apr 2018

At the center of this oddly riveting little picaresque is a performance of such quiet power by Plummer — as an antihero both rash and precociously…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 10 Apr 2018

It’s less Haigh’s mournful view of American society — one that, for sure, rarely finds American movie screens — that makes the heartfelt…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 09 Apr 2018

Authentic, gorgeously photographed, and equipped with the ability to make anyone cry, Lean on Pete is a worthy adaptation of the source material…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Deadline Hollywood Daily (332) on 08 Apr 2018

Andrew Haigh's deliberate and moving study of a youth adrift with a horse as much in need as he is hits the mark. Charlie Plummer is terrific…

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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Solzy at the Movies (339) on 08 Apr 2018

Lean on Pete is full of so many themes that will drive the emotions home so it wouldn't be unwise to have a Kleenex handy…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for Opeeqo (22) on 06 Apr 2018

In Lean on Pete, we are reminded that human connection, no matter how brief, is essential to our well-being and growth…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 05 Apr 2018

Plummer is so good in this role, a young man who refuses to ask for help, insistent on making his own way - watch his face whenever he receives…

Review of Lean on Pete (2018)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 05 Apr 2018

I was afraid at first that I would be watching a sobfest. I needn’t have worried…

Review of Lean on Pete (2018)

By Michael Ordoña (350) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 05 Apr 2018

Haunting tale of survival and love has language, violence…

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