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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 05 Apr 2018

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Apr 2018

Writer-director Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) dashes expectations in almost every scene…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 04 Apr 2018

There’s almost a cosmic dimension to some of the most beautiful passages, as if the world (call it nature or God or sensitive direction)…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 04 Apr 2018

As its scenario goes from sad to worse...the movie seems to aspire only to bumming everybody out…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 04 Apr 2018

The power of writer-director Andrew Haigh’s sublime drama is that it can support myriad interpretations while remaining teasingly mysterious—like…

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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for World of Reel (117) on 04 Apr 2018

The beauty of Haigh's film resides in going through the meandering, episodic nature and finding poignancy, depth if you will, in its beautifully…

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By E. Oliver Whitney (111) for ScreenCrush (954) on 04 Apr 2018

When I think about Haigh’s work, the word tenderness comes to mind…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Apr 2018

What happens to Charley, the film posits, the bad and the good, is not so much the fault of specific individuals but of the indifferent dead…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 04 Apr 2018

Sobs are earned the hard way in this moving drama, which grips you with such scrappy humor and no-bull grit and grace that you'll be hooked…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 04 Apr 2018

When it’s at its subtlest, Lean on Pete sings with power; but when things get outwardly grim, it loses a little of its impact…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 04 Apr 2018

There’s a lopsided quality to Lean on Pete that will particularly destabilize viewers (like myself) who are unfamiliar with Vlautin’s book…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 04 Apr 2018

Haigh, perhaps driven by some misguided sense of narrative purity, refuses to loosen the screws, and it’s almost too much to bear…

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By Austin Trunick (219) for Under the Radar (636) on 03 Apr 2018

This is a rare drama where spoilers are a real danger; Lean on Pete's rawest, most wrenching moments have a way of skillfully blindsiding viewers,…

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By David Kaplan (436) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 02 Apr 2018

Plummer renders a shockingly good performance, one that moviegoers will look back on as his true breakthrough role…

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By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 02 Apr 2018

A piercing revelation of the ways in which Western culture injures men…

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By Jeanne Kaplan (738) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 02 Apr 2018

Plummer is a striking young man with a soulful face and expressive eyes. His performance is heartbreakingly believable…

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By Erika W. Smith (54) for Bust Magazine (182) on 02 Apr 2018

It's hard to watch Lean On Pete without thinking of how different this story would be if Charley were a young woman or a person of color…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 01 Apr 2018

Buscemi is the least grass-fed of actors, meant for the rat-run of city streets, and, if I didn’t quite believe in him as a country guy,…

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By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 31 Mar 2018

As sharply as it delineates an America of spotty, informal economies, the film avoids articulating most of the people who live and work in…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Shockya.com (657) on 31 Mar 2018

Charlie Plummer rocks as a 15-year-old forced to fend for himself and having adventures that few young people could imagine…

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