pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FLICKFEEL
70
from 40 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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FUN
3
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
47
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.
Read from 40 comments (39 from Metacritic, 1 from TMDB reviews) — 15 of them described how it moves.
Thin evidence — the shape below rests on 15 comments. The shaded band is how wide the uncertainty actually is, and it is drawn to scale.
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“It didn’t feel like everything quite added up at in the films final act”
drlowdon · Metacritic ↗
“slow, calm, and quietly intriguing”
griggs79 · Metacritic ↗
“unravel a darker truth beneath the warmth. The twist creeps in, never loud, just unsettling”
griggs79 · Metacritic ↗
“Starts as an interesting slow-burn”
slaterman2 · Metacritic ↗
“Turns just slow in the middle”
slaterman2 · Metacritic ↗
“But ends on a very high note”
slaterman2 · Metacritic ↗
Read 24 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.
“A quietly devastating portrayal of family and theft in contemporary Japan.”
John Bleasdale, CineVue · 100
“It is a movie made up of delicate brushstrokes: details, moments, looks and smiles.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100
“Shoplifters is compassionate, socially conscious filmmaking with a piercing intelligence that is pure Kore-eda. This is a film that steals in and snatches your heart.”
Robbie Collin, The Telegraph · 100
“Some of the credit must go to the stellar casting and performances. It’s difficult to single out one of the six actors in this alternative family unit as it’s a true ensemble display. But Kore-eda’s deft command of tone is a key factor too.”
Lee Marshall, Screen Daily · 100
“At once charming and heart-wrenching, this exquisitely performed film will steal the hearts of both art-house and mainstream audiences.”
Maggie Lee, Variety · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 24 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 96, the watch 70
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“It didn’t feel like everything quite added up at in the films final act”
drlowdonabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“slow, calm, and quietly intriguing”
griggs79about 0–100% inread it ↗
“unravel a darker truth beneath the warmth. The twist creeps in, never loud, just unsettling”
griggs79about 60–80% inread it ↗
“Starts as an interesting slow-burn”
slaterman2about 0–33% inread it ↗
“A genuinely super film about a family of small time chancers who survive on their wits on the verge of poverty. There is something almost Fagin-esque about their behaviour, but in best Robin Hood tradition we always feel that their small-scale criminal activities are carried out as a result of necessity than from any need or wish to do anyone else any harm. They take in a little girl off the street which stretches their already meagre resources but without rancour or complaint and we skip throug”
CinemaSerfread it ↗
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