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By Scott Menzel (120) for We Live Entertainment (357) on 15 Sep 2017

Lean on Pete is a dramatic coming of age story that stands out mainly due to the performance by Charlie Plummer…

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By Sarah Kurchak (64) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 13 Sep 2017

While Lean on Pete risks turning gratuitous in terms of narrative flourishes and excess, it’s never gratuitous in its characterizations…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 11 Sep 2017

Just about every scene in Lean On Pete, the sensitive, unvarnished, at times powerfully sad new drama from writer-director Andrew Haigh (Weekend,…

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By Raphael Abraham (46) for Financial Times (1,822) on 05 Sep 2017

Adapted from a novel by Willy Vlautin, the film is luminously shot and acted, and, for the most, part beautifully controlled…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for indieWire (3,631) on 04 Sep 2017

Each scene is so quietly compelling because Haigh doesn’t focus on cruelty, but helplessness…

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By Paul O'callaghan (20) for Sight and Sound (827) on 04 Sep 2017

Haigh has rearranged the building blocks of mawkish teen melodrama into a bracing and bittersweet coming-of-age fable…

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By Brian Formo (125) for Collider (1,032) on 01 Sep 2017

The further Charley gets from the Wenatchee and Portland racetracks, the more unique first half starts to feel pretty darn distant…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 01 Sep 2017

It's a road movie where the origin feels more interesting than the destination, but it's never less than warm and likeable…

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By Ed Gibbs (248) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 01 Sep 2017

A standout performance from Plummer makes this thoughtful drama swing…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 31 Aug 2017

[Haigh] hasn’t sacrificed a shred of the understated, observational style, lace-like emotional intricacy and lung-filling feel for landscape…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 31 Aug 2017

Sadly, the intriguing set up - along with Del and Bonnie - is left behind for a too nakedly state-of-America musing, with everyone Charley…

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By Jo-Anne Titmarsh (79) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 31 Aug 2017

Andrew Haigh is not one to shy from painful emotion in his films and Lean on Pete is no exception…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 31 Aug 2017

Charlie Plummer, 18 playing 15, with the looks of a teenage Christopher Walken, brings great presence to Charley - and we're rooting for him…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Aug 2017

It’s saved from all-out depressiveness by Haigh’s compassion, which cradles the characters within their often desperate situations…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Screen International (2,241) on 31 Aug 2017

There’s a wistful quality to the storytelling which softens some of the sharper edges of tragedy and hardship in this undeniably affecting picture…

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By Xan Brooks (287) for Guardian (4,584) on 31 Aug 2017

Lean on Pete is at its potent, stirring best during the opening furlough, when it focuses on this makeshift hobo family as it criss-crosses…

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