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By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Nov 2011

Tomboy astutely explores the freedom, however brief, of being untethered to the highly rule-bound world of gender codes…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 15 Nov 2011

Tomboy may add little to conversations about gender or sexuality…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 15 Nov 2011

The story that emerges is programmatic and largely unsurprising, but these children give it messiness, joy and life…

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By Diego Semerene (203) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Nov 2011

Tomboy is one of those little big films whose simplicity and concision suggest the excess of meaning that language (cinematic or otherwise)…

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By Anna Smith (519) for Empire (3,446) on 13 Nov 2011

A tender, sensitive French drama rich in hazy atmosphere…

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By Kathleen Maher (33) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 15 Feb 2002

The film's ostensible support for a woman's right to self-expression is undercut by the notion that it doesn't matter what a woman does, anyway,…

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By Joe Bob Briggs (34) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 11 Oct 1996

Betsy needs a couple more pounds of makeup to get this more than two stars. Joe Bob says check it out anyway…

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