40
Three leads do their best with simplistic characters.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
The effort is earnest, but the plot turns more and more implausible.
50
Los Angeles Times by Gene Seymour
There's something plodding and uncomfortably strident about Little Animals that keeps the audience from sharing, much less understanding, Bobby's enchantment.
50
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
Hurt is slumming in an unchallenging role.
75
Involvingly acted, surehandedly crafted.
40
Simplistic on one level, indecipherable on another, it's a most peculiar muddle.
67
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Where the movie falters is in sustaining the tricky balance between pastoral life lessons and creepy suspense.
50
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
This moody film is ravishingly beautiful to look at -- but the story's fairy tale atmosphere doesn't entirely mesh with its psychological underpinnings.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Falls so far outside our ordinary story expectations it may frustrate some viewers.
58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
It's a movie brimming with good intentions, solid production values and searing performances. However, it never quite clicks into place with any real satisfaction.