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Old Boys

2018

Toby MacDonald

Alex Lawther, Denis Ménochet, Eros Vlahos, Nicholas Rowe ...

5.5

213

Comedy In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"An appealing feature debut (...) The film’s scrappy visual ingenuity and game performances keep it lively"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"A gently eccentric charmer of a film (...) There is also a credibility to the depiction which suggests that the filmmakers are not strangers to the world they satirise."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"That very interesting actor Alex Lawther deserves more than being typecast as a posh English schoolboy (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"[It offers] a smart critique of the hazing, chants and traditions of private school boys (...) A romcom that’s both sweet and satisfying (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Marko Stojiljković Cineuropa	"The topics of class and gender differences are not explored in depth (...) but 'Old Boys' is still lean, clear, easy to follow and entertaining"
		Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"What elevates 'Old Boys' above well-worn literary transplant and nerds-vs-jocks cliché is its witty dissection of English upper-class zealotry (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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