Boys Reviews

The actors do a nice job of investing it all with a certain conviction, and there's a fairy-tale tinge to some of the action that gives it a certain charm.

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Writer/director Cochran is stronger on capturing the texture surrounding her characters' converging experiences than making much of it when they do get together.

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Haas and Ryder let off some serious sparks, even if the screenplay doesn't

| Original Score: 3/5

| Original Score: 3/5

As vague and unfocused as its title.

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What begins as an edgy examination of sheltered, selfish kids making stupid choices devolves into a ludicrously mannered celebration of adolescent rebellion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The movie's not helped at all by Ryder, who seems uncomfortable playing femme fatale to these grimy-fingered boys, as if she doesn't believe anyone could feel this adulative about her.

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| Original Score: 2/5

| Original Score: 2/5

| Original Score: C

| Original Score: 2/5

Obviously reshot and recut to the point of complete incoherence

| Original Score: 1/5

| Original Score: 1/4

| Original Score: 1/5

Amazingly bland Winona Ryder vehicle.

| Original Score: 2/5

A dreadful disappointment of epic proportions.

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A small, cramped film about an aimless woman in her mid-20s who becomes involved with an innocent prep school student.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Boys is a love story, or at least that's what the film makers would like us to believe. The problem is, there isn't much emotion present.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Boys must think audiences are not very bright.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It is essentially a coming-of-age movie, but the circumstances are so eccentric and the relationships so unique that Cochran seems to be reaching for something more inscrutable, more ambiguous.