Little Fugitive (re-release)
Joseph Burstyn | Release Date: February 1, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
91
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Universal acclaim based on 4 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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100
Village VoiceNick PinkertonJan 29, 2013
The film's genius is how completely it tunes in to his 
experience, delicately outlining Joey's private moments of shame, elation, despondency, and pride. Read full review
100
Time OutEric HynesJan 29, 2013
There's influential, and then there's this 1953 microbudgeted beauty, one that's made its way into the DNA of everything from cinema vérité to the French New Wave. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierJan 29, 2013
The film's beguiling visual poetry and smatterings of sociological subtext function less than coherently as transitional markers between cinematic epochs, or even as the nascent burblings of any imminent DIY revolution; instead, they're redolent of a modernist apotheosis. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyMar 7, 2013
This is a world where people still put out wash to dry on fire escapes, watermelon has seeds, amusement park rides cost 9 cents. Joey is the little fugitive of the title, of course, but at the heart of the movie, as its makers could never have imagined 60 years ago, is a much bigger fugitive: time itself. Read full review
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