Sweet Sixteen (1981)

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The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites

Sweet Sixteen shows that he's (Loach) as capable of anger as his protagonist and just as eager to draw attention to an unchanging problem: the blight of generational poverty. Read the full review

Variety | David RooneyAdd Critic to Favorites

Rendered deeply moving by the director's peerless capacity to combine humor and compassion with honesty and despair.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott TobiasAdd Critic to Favorites

With startling clarity and dreadful logic, Loach and Laverty make sense of every bad choice Compston makes until he runs out of options, locked into a destiny that he can't escape, mainly because his good intentions are clouded by tragic naivete.Read the full review

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