40
Terminally mild, ill-structured adaptation of Amos Oz's novel "Panther in the Basement."
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
60
Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey
The film is clever in using a child to tease out the misunderstandings that arise between those on opposite sides, even when the river of emotions that should course through The Little Traitor sometimes runs dry.
60
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Roth prefers sentimentality to subtlety and cutesiness to complexity. Fortunately, Molina balances Port's precocity, bringing a welcome gravitas to this simply told tale.
40
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
A muddled morality tale more interested in coming of age than getting of wisdom.
63
Alfred Molina gives a warm and engaging performance as an occupying British soldier.
75
Orlando Sentinel by Roger Moore
An engaging Israeli film about the days when the people throwing rocks, assassinating soldiers and setting off bombs were Jews out to carve a state for themselves out of the British "mandate" in Palestine.
40
Sentimental and a bit too cute in evoking a child's-eye view, the picture, nevertheless will please its target Jewish auds.
20
Numbingly simplistic in concept and execution.
50
The mix of mawkishness and polemic is naive. Children, though, will probably leave with a lot of good questions. A better movie would leave them with more.