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Thoughtful, unpredictable, and overall gripping, Eastern Boys fills its sprawling running time with compelling themes and sharply drawn characters brought to life by powerful performances and deft direction.
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Writer-director-editor Robin Campillo has crafted an unruly yet pointed drama that should intrigue patient viewers. Apr 30, 2015 | Full Review…
Writer-director-editor Robin Campillo has crafted an unruly yet pointed drama that should intrigue patient viewers.
Gary Goldstein
The movie argues that these teens' lawless, selfish mentality is a by-product of having grown up in war-stricken countries such as Chechnya, where they lived through horrors that permanently skewed their moral compasses. Apr 2, 2015 | Rating: 3/4
The movie argues that these teens' lawless, selfish mentality is a by-product of having grown up in war-stricken countries such as Chechnya, where they lived through horrors that permanently skewed their moral compasses.
Rene Rodriguez
Both surprisingly resonant, and something of a thrill-ride. Feb 27, 2015 | Full Review…
Both surprisingly resonant, and something of a thrill-ride.
Bob Mondello
[Campillo] leaves us, at the end, in an appropriately ambiguous place. Feb 27, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
[Campillo] leaves us, at the end, in an appropriately ambiguous place.
Philippa Hawker
Explores interlocking themes of sexuality, immigration and power dynamics with a cleareyed sensitivity and refuses to demonize even its shadiest characters. Feb 26, 2015 | Full Review…
Explores interlocking themes of sexuality, immigration and power dynamics with a cleareyed sensitivity and refuses to demonize even its shadiest characters.
Stephen Holden
By turns a frightening home-invasion drama, a tender love story and a tense hide-and-seek thriller, with far more control over these unsettling tonal slides than initially seems feasible. Feb 25, 2015 | Full Review…
By turns a frightening home-invasion drama, a tender love story and a tense hide-and-seek thriller, with far more control over these unsettling tonal slides than initially seems feasible.
Guy Lodge
Eastern Boys cleanly escapes any accusation of blandness. An emotional uppercut of a film, Campillo's latest is one which may take several days to fully recover from. Apr 3, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Eastern Boys cleanly escapes any accusation of blandness. An emotional uppercut of a film, Campillo's latest is one which may take several days to fully recover from.
Maryann O'Connor
This is a tough, important film, and one that wields ambivalence like a cudgel. Aug 25, 2018 | Full Review…
This is a tough, important film, and one that wields ambivalence like a cudgel.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Wholly unsatisfying, interminable in length with marginal acting, at best, there is little but the opening 15 minutes and the mesmerizing Daniil Vorobov to recommend this film. Sep 15, 2017 | Full Review…
Wholly unsatisfying, interminable in length with marginal acting, at best, there is little but the opening 15 minutes and the mesmerizing Daniil Vorobov to recommend this film.
Neely Swanson
The film tackles solidarity and solitude, economic class, language and lingering ages -- managing to remain engaging throughout most of its two hours-plus running time. Jul 18, 2015 | Full Review…
The film tackles solidarity and solitude, economic class, language and lingering ages -- managing to remain engaging throughout most of its two hours-plus running time.
John Esther
Dour, dark sexual drama about a rich, middle-aged French pervert (Olivier Rabourdin) who arranges for a rent boy to turn up to his plush apartment only to find his plans going awry. Mar 8, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Dour, dark sexual drama about a rich, middle-aged French pervert (Olivier Rabourdin) who arranges for a rent boy to turn up to his plush apartment only to find his plans going awry.
Jim Schembri
[An] ambitious and often arresting French drama. Mar 6, 2015 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
[An] ambitious and often arresting French drama.
Craig Mathieson
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