little man
Jour de Fête Films | Release Date: October 28, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
A deeply personal, often wrenching documentary. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
A marvelously compressed and immaculately constructed work. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis Harvey
Pic can be taken as either inspirational or cautionary, but either way rivets attention on the efforts of both medical science and Conn herself to keep the little guy alive. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyTim Grierson
Conn is exasperating and heroic in equal measure, an altogether riveting portrait of motherly devotion at its most primal. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
Above all, it's a testament to the will to live and how that spirit can be found in even the smallest of packages. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Deeply personal film that often feels more like an artfully produced home video than a documentary. Read full review
60
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Guaranteed to polarize audiences. Is her insistence on taking every measure possible to save little Nicholas heroic or monumentally self-serving? Read full review
50
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
Weighing in at almost exactly one pound and unable to breathe or eat on his own, Nicholas James Baba-Conn seemed doomed to a very short life; his chance for survival was calculated at close to zero. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
But with her penchant for frilly romance and sentimentality, the focus is often, cloyingly, on Conn as the heroine of the story, the mother who (sob!) wouldn't give up. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
While Conn's story is inherently compelling, it's pretty much ruined in the telling thanks to her unnerving choice to fill it with a twinkling piano-heavy score, florid narration, and trembling slow-motion. Read full review
38
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Your baby is near death. Instead of dropping everything to save his life, you make sure the video camera keeps rolling. Read full review
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