Little Boy

There is a lot to admire here. Writer-director Alejandro Monteverde (Bella) is not afraid to take his time letting you get to know the characters or moving things along, but the movie never seems ponderous.

Little Boy is loaded with weighty subjects and teachable moments, all doled out between generous helpings of tragedy and sentiment. It’s ambitious, but a cluttered weeper whose lessons might have stuck, had there been fewer of them.

Functioning as more parable than sermon, it offers at least a hint of a blueprint for other faith filmmakers who want their message to reach beyond the front pew.

The film is so bizarre, contrived, manipulative, and meretricious that anything is possible.

It's all simplistic sermonizing in director and co-writer Alejandro Monteverde's hands, devoid of any thoughtful messiness about wartime mind-sets or family despair, and quick to sand any edges with postcard-pretty coastal town vistas and cutesy music cues.

The steady performances of Tom Wilkinson, playing a kindly priest, and Emily Watson, an angelic mother, in Alejandro Monteverde’s Little Boy do little to offset the cloying sweetness of a movie that has the haranguing inspirational tone of a marathon Sunday-school lesson.

Examinations of faith on film don't have to be noxious.

A very moving story. A drama with a profound meaning and intense moments in which the director captivates the heart. Definitely worth watching, and even better if with spouse and kids!

Little boy initially it will look like to you a great movie, but on having seen the second time you will realize that it is not a good movie..........

this is the worst movie ever and a 2 year old boy could have written the story of this movie and the and why would a child act on a movie like this ****

This movie was one of the worst movies I have ever seen, I made it through an hour and was wishing I was finishing my Algebra homework over watching what was the top three worst movies I have seen this year. All the amazing reviews are insane, you have been warned, see at your own risk!

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]