Critic Reviews

• Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

  Lazy storytelling expects a pass as indie authenticity.

• Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader

  There's a big difference between commenting on the zeitgeist and simply acknowledging it, as this featherweight independent comedy demonstrates.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  This is a small film and knows exactly how to be a small film. Like many New Yorker short stories, its purpose is to strike a particular note and allow it to reverberate.

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  Even at a lean 73 minutes, this flimsy road movie feels at least 43 minutes too long.

• Ian Buckwalter, NPR

  Small, Beautifully Moving Parts isn't always completely elegant about getting its point across, but its imperfections are only human - a quality, as Sarah eventually realizes, that can have its own appeal.

• Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

  "Small, Beautifully Moving Parts" is a tiny, sweet gem.

• Matt Singer, ScreenCrush

  The film is true to its title: small, beautiful and moving.

• David Noh, Film Journal International

  Highly agreeable, funny and bright study of a pregnant woman all at sea in a world where wireless options seem to outweigh human ones in her life.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  An intimate and well-acted drama about the technological tools in our lives and the quest of a young pregnant woman to reconcile with her long estranged mother.

• Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine

  Gentler and less aesthetically assaultive than 0s & 1s and Catfish, but it's not necessarily any subtler or more enlightening.

Read all 10 critic reviews