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By Gabe Toro (98) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 May 2013

The cumulative effect is dramatically effective to the point of being soul-crushing…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 02 May 2013

The film is wrenching all the same, and subtle enough in its portrait of the four major grown-up characters to qualify as Jamesian…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for CraveOnline (813) on 02 May 2013

It could make you angry, or open up old wounds, but in the best possible way. Let's get riled up, let's take it personally…

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By Ian Buckwalter (369) for NPR (1,713) on 02 May 2013

The film raises more uncomfortable questions about Maisie's uncertain future than it ever answers, but that's in keeping with the emotional…

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By S. Jhoanna Robledo (697) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 02 May 2013

Wrenching drama about child custody can spark discussion…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 02 May 2013

Directing partners Scott McGehee and David Siegel go more mainstream and downstream with this modern-day, loose riff on Henry James' late-19th-century…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 02 May 2013

Cinema buffs should see this for the great performances all around, the way that New York feels when it's not being rushed, and for an overall…

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By Craig Seligman (44) for Bloomberg News (117) on 02 May 2013

The actors are all very good. Moore, in particular, has a frightening intensity. If Maisie can deal with this banshee, she's prepared for anything…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 02 May 2013

Some moviegoers may opt for an easier cinematic pleasure than this carefully crafted, discomforting look at familial misery in hyper drive,…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 02 May 2013

Yes, these people are cliches. But they know it…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 01 May 2013

What Maisie Knew lays waste to the comforting dogma that children are naturally resilient, and that our casual, unthinking cruelty to them…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 01 May 2013

Cartwright, find something sadly timeless in a child torn apart in a custody battle that no one wins, least of all the child…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 01 May 2013

This is a fine idea for a PSA TV commercial, but (a) they already did it back in the ’70s and (b) it goes on well past the 30-second mark…

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By Sam Adams (514) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Apr 2013

If the idea is for the audience to feel similarly yanked around, then What Maisie Knew succeeds wildly, but it fails to bring much insight…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 30 Apr 2013

In this bleak indie bummer that confuses hopelessness with depth, they're really nothing more than selfish, one-dimensional monsters…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 30 Apr 2013

A mesmerizing screen adaptation of a Henry James novel about parenting and the importance of a tender and nurturing love…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 29 Apr 2013

Acutely observed, subtly but sharply written and expertly acted…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Apr 2013

The film is admirably committed to simulating the messy experience of life as a real Maisie might live it…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 29 Apr 2013

Young Aprile is a real find, investing what might have been a symbolic part with a visible sense of craft and patience (this isn’t merely…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Apr 2013

David Siegel and Scott McGehee's film renders the rhapsodic Henry James novel of the same name into an abhorrent slice of tasteless familial drama…

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