Shoplifters's reviews
Media reviews
Roger Ebert
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.
New York Times
In the past, Kore-eda?s delicacy has at times enervated his movies. Here, though, the family?s toughness, thieving and secrets, its poverty and desperation, work like ballast on his sensibilities. In their grubby imperfections, Kore-eda finds a perfect story about being human.
Los Angeles Times
This wise and insightful film is delicate, poignant and unexpectedly powerful.
The A.V. Club
What these people have in common beyond a shared surname really pounds the film?s theme home with a sledgehammer, but there are numerous tender, affecting moments en route to the finale?s tearjerker overdrive, many of them productively tangential to the overarching idea of choosing one?s own family.
Variety
At once charming and heart-wrenching, this exquisitely performed film will steal the hearts of both art-house and mainstream audiences.
The Hollywood Reporter
A thoughtful addition to his parables about happy and unhappy families, studded with memorable characters and believable performances that quietly lead the viewer to reflect on societal values.
The Washington Post
With its air of intimacy and fractious affections, Shoplifters feels like ?The Borrowers? by way of Yasujiro Ozu, a discreetly observed drama about resourcefulness, loyalty and resilience in an era of obscene income inequality and a fatally frayed civic safety net.
El Mundo
Kore-eda achieves to abandone for an instant his more tender, praised and even corny side in order to simply bite. Make blood. Kore-eda in his best version. Or the most harmful one.
El País
The film insists on an obsessive issuer for its creator. He tells it with sensitivity and a too slow mood. And you start yo relate things, and to remember details when a surprising ending arrives.
The Telegraph
A thrilling and beautiful tale. 'Shoplifters' is compassionate, socially conscious filmmaking with a piercing intelligence that is pure Kore-eda.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote