Review: Don't be fooled by the title — 'The Kid Detective' is a clever genre-bender for grown-ups
by Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times
Oct 16, 2020
2 minutes
"The Kid Detective" is an unexpected mix of disparate elements that in the wrong hands could have resulted in lumpy parody but, fortunately, pours out as something smooth, funny, dark and potent.
Imagine if an Encyclopedia Brown-like boy sleuth had cruised along, catching school cash-box thieves and the like, winning admiration from all - until
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