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Manohla Dargis, New York Times: A likable, lightly sticky valentine to childhood. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: I can't imagine a better movie for children and adults to enjoy together. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Milner and Poulter are a lot of fun to watch, a pair of first-timer naturals who don't reek of Dakota Fanning Young Actorliness. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: All part of growing up, an experience Son of Rambow portrays with genuine insight. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's an absolute delight. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: For a film about falling in love with the movies, its insights on them are next to nil. Read more
Tasha Robinson, Chicago Tribune: The kid-heavy cast tends to substitute enthusiasm for subtlety, but the way they throw their hearts into their games just makes it easier to get drawn in. Read more
Joe Leydon, Houston Chronicle: Son of Rambow is an inventive and amusing coming-of-age movie that deftly entwines elements of farce and fantasy, rebelliousness and sentiment, while paying seriously funny tribute to the transcendent power of art. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: It never makes the mistake of condescending to its audience by turning its tykes into overgrown adults. The childhood experience feels emotionally accurate. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: These two boys have, along with writer-director Garth Jennings, turned a coming-of-age story into a treatise on both the fragility of artistic vision and the danger of popular opinion. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The team who made The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy display plenty of whirligig energy, if not much control or lightness of touch. Read more
Eric D. Snider, Film.com: Son of Rambow is filled with small surprises and treasures, a veritable bounty of delight. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: Jennings is clearly having a wonderful time recreating the fantasies of his youth, but sometimes his perspective get a little too inbred, and the picture suffers for it. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: With apologies to Mr. Stallone, no one would ever argue First Blood was an essential part of any healthy childhood. But the ability to make-believe certainly is. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: That unashamed passion for movies explains why, even when it gets a little too sweet in its final scenes, Rambow remains true to itself and to Will and Lee's friendship. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: An '80s coming-of-age comedy with more energy than ideas. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Sweet and sentimental, a bit racy to be a kids' film, a bit tame as grown-up entertainment, Son of Rambow is still a magical romp about childhood discovery and the birth of a lifelong love of the movies. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The tone is light and unpretentious and it offers an opportunity for some '80s reminiscing. Ultimately, however, it's forgettable, disposable entertainment. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: After the movie, I imagined its writer-director, Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) being more than a little like Will, and the movie uncannily similar to one of Will's comic epics. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Plenty happens, but little of it advances the action, until the finale, which is lovely, but would have been a lot lovelier after 35 minutes, not 90. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A joyous, touching story of friendship, mischief and imagination. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Few movies have captured the intoxicating effect of pop culture on kids better than Son of Rambow. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The rapport between the two rogue cineastes is enough to carry both films: the one they're making and the one Jennings is trying to make. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: Integrates its slapstick genre pastiche into a thoughtful story about peer pressure, neglect and yearning Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Bright and witty physical and optical visual touches spill off the screen, though the use of effects is scaled to the tale. Read more
Jim Ridley, Village Voice: Son of Rambow evokes the rush of discovery that turns budding cinephiles into lifers -- that delight in finding a film that seems to express or coalesce some inchoate yearning, including a yen to share. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: We cringe and laugh at -- and are ultimately moved by -- their clumsiness and innocence. And it endears us to the Rambo films in ways we never could have anticipated. Read more