Critic Reviews

• Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

  The kids in this syrupy family picture are spunky tykes and the adults are dolts, but Wood is worth watching because she's so clearly ready to play nobody's girl but her own.

• Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

  There are a lot of movies out there made for fourteen-year-old boys, a ton of movies made for six-year-old kids, this movie is made for ten-year-old girls and for what it is, I really like it.

• Scott Foundas, Variety

  What you end up with are a bunch of kids acting not like kids, but how adults who've lost all sense of what it was like to be a kid think kids behave.

• Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

  The movie's chipper charms, and its steadfast determination to present an alternative to overly merchandised multiplex fare (there's nary a pop song or product placement here), ultimately win out.

• Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle

  A touching film that will make audiences smile and cry at young characters who are learning about love and confession.

• Christine Dolen, Miami Herald

  It's a beguiling exploration of friendship, trust, truth, insecurity and, yes, secrets.

• Jeffrey Overstreet, Looking Closer

  These character live in an unblemished neighborhood, where everyone has bite-sized problems that can easily be resolved with a few kind words, a hug, and some tears.

• Josh Bell, Las Vegas Weekly

  Every plot development is telegraphed from a mile away, and every character acts in the most obvious manner possible.

• Bill Chambers, Film Freak Central

  Begins in the vein of a Joe Dante suburban satire but ends like a nightmare of Chris Columbus poppycock.

• Frank Ochieng, Movie Eye

  At least it's a viable alternative to the usually predominate brainless super-charged kids fare that's thrown on the big screen. And for that, Treu's cinematic "little secret" is worth telling out loud.

• Bruce Bennett, Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

  Few parents [the kind likely to have made Little Secrets and to whom it seems primarily aimed] will find anything objectionable in this sanitized after-school special-esque of a film, lately that's progress.

• Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com

  This is simply good filmmaking, and deserving of your attention.

• Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews

  Little Secrets is a sweet little movie, and you don't have to keep that a secret.

• Donna Domino, San Francisco Examiner

  To a large degree, Little Secrets succeeds in a valiant effort to portray a teens struggling with the inevitable pitfalls along the bumpy road to adulthood.

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