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Boogie

2021

Eddie Huang

Taylor Takahashi, Domenick Lombardozzi, Taylour Paige, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. ...

4.2

178

Drama Set in contemporary New York City and follows a Chinese-American basketball phenom who struggles to balance the expectations of his immigrant family with his own dreams of becoming a player for the NBA.

	Author	Review
United States	Inkoo Kang The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] would’ve benefitted from more development in the parental characters (...) But Boogie’s got personal vision and swaggering flair to spare"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"While [Huang] approach to the characters and their interactions feel fresh and personal, the entire basketball plot is cobbled together from countless sports-movie clichés"	NEU
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"Even though the plot’s pretty thin, its scattered pieces rarely line up in a way that becomes taut enough to pull the audience along."	NEU
United States	Nick Schager Variety	"[An] uneven directorial debut (...) [It] compensates for its narrative shortcomings by conveying a strong sense of its milieu’s culture and customs"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Sometimes marred by plot contrivances, Boogie works best when it breaks free of cliches to deliver an honest portrait of the struggles to attain the American dream."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Messy but moving (...) 'Boogie' tries to appreciate its own contradictions, and also to complicate the audience’s expectations"	NEU

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