A marvelously compressed and immaculately constructed work.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin 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 »
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USA Today: Scott Bowles
Almost in spite of itself, Little Man manages to deliver big laughs. It's not enough to make it a consistently funny movie, but this one-trick pony from the Wayans brothers has flashes of humor and sincerity that almost save it from its disastrous ending.Read Full Review »
I laughed at the Wayanses' movie, and I don't even hate myself for it.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Mark 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 »
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The New York Times: Lawrence 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 »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
Devoid of verbal wit, instead relying on a relentless stream of Looney Tunes-inspired violence.Read Full Review »
Somewhere within all the crude slapstick and crass stereotypes, Little Man operates as a vulgar burlesque on the crisis of African-American manhood, particularly the relationships, or lack thereof, between fathers and sons.Read Full Review »