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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 01 May 2002

The film's intimations of bisexual romance have a certain innate drama that no amount of bad acting or cornball rugby matches can completely erase…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 11 Apr 2002

The result is a film that will probably please people already fascinated by Behan but leave everyone else yawning with admiration…

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By Connie Ogle (690) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 11 Apr 2002

An important and interesting story, but the reform school itself never seems terribly harsh…

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By Steve Rhodes (1,488) for Internet Reviews (1,487) on 27 Mar 2002

I blame all men for war, [the warden's daughter] tells her father. The movie is about as deep as that sentiment…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 22 Mar 2002

My problem with Borstal Boy isn't so much with the facts as with the tone…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 21 Mar 2002

It's really a crock: a coming-of-age boys' prison film that has only a fanciful link with Behan's life…

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By Andy Klein (675) for New Times (467) on 07 Mar 2002

Though exploring, among other things, fallibility, homosexuality, injustice and loss, the picture seems afraid to really make any kind of strong…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 03 Mar 2002

For all its triteness, Sheridan's sentimentality has its poignancy: This adolescent boy is all set up to live out a halcyon life he'll never have…

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By Pam Grady (384) for Reel.com (1,232) on 01 Mar 2002

Behan himself knew how to spin a tale and one can't help but think he'd appreciate this attempt to turn his life into art…

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