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By Paul Felten (1) for 4Columns (32) on 29 Mar 2018

Charley is the perfect working-class avatar for the white urban NPR listener: the boy is surrounded by poor people but not really one of them,…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 24 Mar 2018

Lean on Pete is a somber, quixotic trek through a modern West of limited horizons, finite opportunities and the sense that even the young are…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 16 Mar 2018

Again and again, I marveled at the humanist depth of the world Haigh creates, one that can only be rendered by a truly great writer and director,…

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By Charles Ealy (164) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 13 Mar 2018

But this movie is all about [Charlie] Plummer's Charley. Go see it, and you'll understand why. The guy has acting chops - in spades…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Mar 2018

Lean on Pete is a methodical and memorable film primarily because director Haight, adapting from Willy Vlautin’s novel, keeps a distance…

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By Chloe Lizotte (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Mar 2018

Plummer's performance is remarkably interior, bottled up behind his brimming wide eyes, and Haigh leaves enough space for the emotional weight…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 08 Feb 2018

Lean on Pete is certainly not a film without qualities (credit to the supporting cast and Magnus Nordenhof Jønck’s cinematography in particular),…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 06 Feb 2018

This is a compassionately observed story told with unimpeachable naturalism and without a grain of sentimentality, propelled by a remarkable…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 04 Feb 2018

The anguish and determination that Plummer can display with just a look or subtle motion is heartbreaking; this is the kind of naturalistic…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Feb 2018

It’s frustrating to watch, but designed in such a way that the boy’s loneliness will haunt long afterward…

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By Aurélie Dupire (19) for Cine Premiere (538) on 20 Nov 2017

[Charlie Plummer] brings to mind the young DiCaprio or River Phoenix... [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Alistair Ryder (351) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 11 Oct 2017

In Lean on Pete, characters are first and foremost, leading to an finished product that is a knockout emotional triumph…

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By Jay Kuehner (15) for Cinema Scope (405) on 09 Oct 2017

As for vérité, there are shades of social realism in Charley's inexorable drift to the margins of America, but damnation and salvation are…

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By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Oct 2017

The film, adapted by Andrew Haigh from Willy Vlautin's 2010 novel, has an urgency for epic things to happen to its main character in the most…

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By Jamie Dunn (104) for The Skinny (809) on 05 Oct 2017

Despite the increased budget and scope, Andrew Haigh's artistry remains low-key and deeply intimate…

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By Emma Simmonds (380) for The List (2,018) on 03 Oct 2017

What should be desperately hard-going is rendered anything but by Haigh's delicate directorial style, an approach complemented by Plummer's…

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By Tomas Trussow (247) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 02 Oct 2017

Haigh continues to be a treasure worth seeking, and Lean on Pete is one more example of his innate sense of precision and humanity…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Sep 2017

Lean on Pete' is a good old-fashioned boy-and-his-horse story, wandering through a series vignettes - each with the inner life and rich characters…

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By Allyson Johnson (161) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 20 Sep 2017

It's a story that in equal measures is about the treachery of the loss of youth and the importance of retaining some youthful hope…

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By Alex Heeney (135) for Seventh Row (175) on 17 Sep 2017

[Lean on Pete] leaves you almost unexpectedly gutted by the deck Charlie's been dealt, but inspired by his resilience…

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