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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 Alan W (854) on 07 Oct 2017

Andrew Haigh proves he is great at quietly understating yet heartfelt drama with his first 2 films, Weekend and 45 Years, and he adapts that…

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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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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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