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Little Men

Crit

An unsettling story by writer-director Ira Sachs of gentrification, privilege, and friendship, focused on the titular Jake and Tony (Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri, two more additions to the growing roster of brilliant young actors), sons, respectively, of the inheritor of a town house in a trending Brooklyn neighborhood and the Chilean immigrant who runs a dress shop on the ground floor, and whose rent the new owner plans to triple.

Our good liberal sympathies are firmly in place, yet the Jardines (Greg Kinnear and the ever-welcome Jennifer Ehle) are villains only if you believe that an economically challenged family is evil to demand 60 percent of market value rather than settling for 20 percent.

Still, what matters is not what happens to the parents but what happens to the boys' friendship (which, in one direction at least, is pretty clearly and agonizingly a bit more than friendship). The villain, if you must have one, is a world where real estate has come to have more value than love.