Atom User Reviews for Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku)

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Finally I don’t have to print out the ticket or go to a machine at the theater

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Marco C
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#clever

Slow start builds to surprising ending.

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#slow
#notmyfave

The film never really takes off, characters never truly get confronted with any form of major conflict, and I’m only left wondering how it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.

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Metacritic

83
Dec 1, 2018

Kore-eda’s slow reveal of who these people are, and what they mean to each other, has its mystery story aspects, but this is essentially a character study, or at least it tries to be, and not a puzzle picture. He fills in each of the main players leisurely, in snatches.

Metacritic review by Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
100
Nov 23, 2018

For the bulk of Shoplifters, Kore-eda works in a beautiful register that feels both detailed and genuine at the same time. We get to know these characters so deeply, watching them all at their jobs.

Metacritic review by Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico
RogerEbert.com
100
Nov 23, 2018

Tolstoy got it wrong and Shoplifters gets it right. All happy families are not the same. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s enchanting, subversive masterpiece takes on family values and bourgeois pieties through a Japanese crime family that is not what it seems.

Metacritic review by Joe Morgenstern
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal