Lamb

Name: Lamb
Genre: Drama
Released: January 8, 2016
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 62

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Orchard, The | Release Date: January 8, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: When a man meets a young girl in a parking lot, he attempts to help her avoid a bleak destiny by initiating her into the beauty of the outside world. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.

Director: Ross Partridge

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Justin Chang

Dec 4, 2015

Partridge navigates risky material with assurance, delicacy and a deepening sense of intimacy that can turn, without warning, into complicity: The more at ease we feel in the characters’ company, the more disturbingly questionable the situation becomes. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

Jan 15, 2016

The movie holds no clear answers. Every time you think you know where it’s going, it veers. And at the end, I’m pretty sure even Tommie and Lamb – who alternately thinks he’s enriching her life or ruining it – don’t quite know what they’ve been through. But the journey seems to have been worthwhile for them and us. Read full review

Tirdad Derakhshani

Jan 23, 2016

Partridge portrays David with immaculate timing and meticulous attention to detail. We feel for the character's pain, but never quite trust him. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Dec 4, 2015

Lamb proves itself a deeply intriguing psychological drama that should inspire much spirited debate. Let the controversy begin. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Jan 8, 2016

Lamb is empathetic and untrustworthy, haunting but often unpersuasive. In the end it's hard to say what the film's point is. But it lingers in the mind. Read full review

Leah Greenblatt

Jan 6, 2016

Based on a lauded 2011 novel of the same name, Lamb is about as strange as it sounds: a Lolita story almost more unsettling for the lines it doesn’t explicitly cross. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Jan 5, 2016

Ross Partridge seems flatly fascinated by Lamb’s pathology without trying to understand its formation from environmental factors. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Aug 30, 2022

I found this a surprisingly moving and mysterious film. While it does sound like and kind of is a bit of a Lolita type tale, it's not entirely sexually provocative or explicitly graphic.tacky. I thought the young child actor, Oona Laurence, gave a very good performance, she's certainly veryI found this a surprisingly moving and mysterious film. While it does sound like and kind of is a bit of a Lolita type tale, it's not entirely sexually provocative or explicitly graphic.tacky. I thought the young child actor, Oona Laurence, gave a very good performance, she's certainly very emotive and there's some good dialogue present definitely. There's also some pretty good cinematography present, with nice sweeping landscapes depicted. The context of what happens isn't clear for quite a while and it's all a bit strange but slowly we start to get an idea of why he's doing what he does. This is a quirky, intriguing watch - a somewhat random but a good watch certainly, yes, so I'd recommend it, yes, for Oona's performance if not for anything else. It may stay with you for a while.… Expand