
Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.... (Full plot summary below)
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Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.
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| Common Sense MediaS. Jhoanna RobledoTeen girls seek respite from bleak life in mature drama. |
| Bust MagazineOlivia SapersteinWhat helps Little Birds retain its innocence is the girls' mixed sense of fear and liberation that comes from their new experience. |
| Sly FoxKam WilliamsQuirky tale of female empowerment about coming of age on L.A.'s mean streets. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineComing-of-age, semi-autobiographical drama has flashes of adventure and danger, but too much 'So what?'. |
| MSN MoviesGlenn KennyLittle Birds is strong evidence of a real talent... |
| NPRIan BuckwalterDespair may be an emotion of emptiness, of the absence of hope, but that doesn't mean a movie about someone spiraling down into that emotion has to feel so empty as well. |
| SSG SyndicateSusan GrangerFragile tale of how a lifelong friendship forged between two innocent girls is tested when they venture into a volatile, violent world. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeNone of the actors has the heft to elevate this rote material, though to be fair, the task may be impossible. The dreamy shots of a poisoned sea in Little Birds show an imagination sorely missing from its drab plot and characters. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottI don't think Mr. James intended to make a creepy, exploitative movie about teenage runaways - or, for that matter, a moralistic, cautionary tale of girls gone bad. But those are the default categories that Little Birds stumbles toward, perhaps because the filmmaker has not found a cogent way to channel his curiosity or his empathy. |
| Slant MagazineNick SchagerA film of precious, romanticized misery and squalor. |