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Boy

Boy

2010

Taika Waititi

James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi, Moerangi Tihore ...

6.8

883

Comedy. Drama It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king-even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The film is delightful in its colorful production values, with animated and fantasy interludes (...) James Rolleston is so right as Boy (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Andrew Schenker Slant	"Everything here (...) seems more than a tad superficial (...) Waititi too often replaces cultural specificity with surface-skimming whimsy (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	John Lichman IndieWire	"Waititi wrote, produced, directed and starred in the film, which goes beyond it’s coming-of-age story structure, to become something much richer and deeper that still leaves a smile on your face."	POS
United States	David DeWitt The New York Times	"[It] has a surprising rhythmic genius: joy juxtaposed with humiliation, silliness with sadness, fantasy with reality, and none of it formulaic. The editing feels fresh, as does the film."	POS
United States	James Greenberg The Hollywood Reporter	"James Rolleston's sweet, winning performance (...) largely overcomes the leisurely storytelling"	POS

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