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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 21 Nov 2018

It’s impossible to experience the deep-seated compassion of this film and not be moved to tears…

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By Inkoo Kang (374) for Slate (2,081) on 20 Nov 2018

For all its gentle groundedness, a quality that suffuses much of Kore-eda’s work, Shoplifters strenuously resists romanticizing its main…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Nov 2018

What these people have in common beyond a shared surname really pounds the film’s theme home with a sledgehammer, but there are numerous…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 19 Nov 2018

The secrets unveiled in the movie’s second half are mostly wretched, and Kore-eda, in his steady and unhectoring way, is levelling grave…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 Nov 2018

Master director Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose work won the Palm d’Or at Cannes this year, doesn’t pour on the emotion…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 15 Nov 2018

Kore-eda is working up to something else, steering the story he’s built so carefully toward an utterly unexpected detour…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 15 Nov 2018

Shoplifters, winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, is a film acted with great sensitivity, a rough story delicately told…

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By Simon Houpt (42) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 07 Sep 2018

The director, though, reaches in and steals your heart right in front of your eyes, like a magic trick, and you have to admit you didn’t…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Aug 2018

In Shoplifters, Kore-eda dramatizes the insidious and relativistic ordinariness of poverty…

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

Every scene adds another onion-skinlike layer, adding density and mass so slowly that you hardly notice the emotional weight of it all until…

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By Ben Croll (93) for TheWrap (3,203) on 31 May 2018

Not only does Shoplifters skillfully entwine several disparate threads he’s explored over his prolific career, it does so with the understated…

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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 May 2018

Trying to pick apart his native country’s struggles between tradition and modernity, legality and crime, Kore-eda takes the time to affectionately…

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By Geoff Andrew (550) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 May 2018

Boasting excellent performances all round (with the writer-director once again demonstrating his expertise with children), Shoplifters is another…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 20 May 2018

A tender ensemble piece whose skillful performances dovetail into a perfectly symphonic whole, Shoplifters is a work of such emotional delicacy…

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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 18 May 2018

Some of the credit must go to the stellar casting and performances…

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By Maggie Lee (98) for Variety (12,700) on 18 May 2018

At once charming and heart-wrenching, this exquisitely performed film will steal the hearts of both art-house and mainstream audiences…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 18 May 2018

A quietly devastating portrayal of family and theft in contemporary Japan…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 18 May 2018

Shoplifters is compassionate, socially conscious filmmaking with a piercing intelligence that is pure Kore-eda…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 18 May 2018

A master of threading the needle between conflict and contrivance, Kore-eda manages to turn this drama inside out without every betraying its…

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By Deborah Young (235) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 18 May 2018

This small film is a thoughtful addition to his parables about happy and unhappy families (Nobody Knows, After the Storm), studded with memorable…

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