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By John Oursler (19) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Nov 2013

Collyer has a keen eye for underrepresented populations, but she'd be better served in the future to scale back on the overstatement…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 12 Nov 2013

The realism is honorable, the acting is exemplary, and all do good work, but life among the unlucky and disenfranchised who exist without hope…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 12 Nov 2013

The one real takeaway here is not that things are tough all over, or that movie stars equate slumming with authenticity; it’s that no actor…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 26 Oct 2013

Try as she might, Collyer cannot help but judge these people, a not-quite-fatal flaw in a movie about the down and out…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 20 Oct 2013

A bleak, well-acted social drama evoking the problems of the American working class…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 06 Oct 2013

As Collyer risks caricature—if a caricature of Florida is even possible at this point—Watts and Dillon ease Sunlight Jr…

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By Frank Scheck (1,741) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Sep 2013

Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon bring impressive emotional and physical heat to Sunlight Jr., director/screenwriter Laurie Collyer’s beautifully…

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By Ronnie Scheib (420) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Sep 2013

Incandescent performances by Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon and an unerring grasp of strip-mall-dominated Florida distinguish Sunlight Jr…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 27 Jul 2013

An atypical American social realist film that offers a low-key and somber look at the country's underclass…

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By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Apr 2013

An admirable refusal to adhere to any overexposed poverty-porn templates, however, is taken a little too far in the opposite direction, to…

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By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 Apr 2013

Unflinchingly honest and grim, Sunlight Jr. is a valuable piece of work from a filmmaker who has a distinctive voice and concerns…

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