“The film has a mangy, oddball energy when it focuses on the fractured friendship between Dinklage and Boone […]. Rockwell’s film might have been better off dropping its rueful, sour-grapes satire on Hollywood altogether, as it just feels artificial and forced.” Mark Olsen: Movie review: ‘Pete Smalls Is Dead’. In: Los Angeles Times, 11. November 2011.
“It’s hard to imagine a film sporting such reliable talents as Peter Dinklage, Steve Buscemi and Rosie Perez […] could be completely unappealing, but Pete Smalls Is Dead somehow manages. The off-kilter comedy […] curdles into loutish humor and obnoxious characters posing as wacky screwballs.” Dennis Harvey: Pete Smalls Is Dead. In: Variety, 17. September 2010.
