Hide Your Smiling Faces
Tribeca Film | Release Date: March 28, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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60
The GuardianLeslie FelperinOct 26, 2015
Ultimately, it's mostly a mood piece where not much really happens apart from the inciting incident, but as a study of childhood and adolescence (it makes a great companion piece to Richard Linklater's Boyhood) it's ripe with telling details and atmosphere. Read full review
60
The DissolveMike D'AngeloMar 27, 2014
Smiling Faces is a strongly promising first effort, introducing a talented filmmaker who’s still in the process of finding his own voice. Still, don’t be too surprised if, three or four features down the road, it retroactively looks much more singular. Read full review
60
Village VoiceJonathan KieferMar 25, 2014
Carbone minimizes dialogue and focuses instead on gestural specificity; he makes a useful inventory of boys-will-be-boys behavior — wrestling in fields, poking at scars or dead critters, shutting down on parents — and stages it in tellingly muted vignettes within the ample copses of rural New Jersey. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartMar 26, 2014
The many silences in Hide Your Smiling Faces don’t speak quite loudly enough, and the film ultimately gets bogged down by its own ponderousness. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedMar 26, 2014
Unfortunately, Hide Your Smiling Faces is so slow it could use a few action sequences to speed things up. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonMar 25, 2014
This microbudget indie about a pair of brothers in small-town USA looks great, sports strong performances and doesn’t outstay its welcome. But it’s impossible to shake the feeling that we’ve seen all this before, and better. Read full review
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