“The film ultimately belongs to its lead actress, and Aprile gives a performance that’s not really a performance at all. She’s merely present in her dreamy actuality, preoccupied by the foreground (as kids are), absorbing and translating adult events (as kids do), and pulling her head in as necessary, like the turtles that occur throughout the film as a visual motif. “What Maisie Knew” flirts with sentimentality but mostly keeps it at bay until the very end, at which point the filmmakers and we realize the kid has probably earned it. Turtles survive. So will Maisie.” -Ty Burr
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