Review of Boyhood (2014) by Greenstar — 28 Jan 2015
Really wanted to like this film based on all the praise and liking some of Linklater's earlier films, but the unanimous critical praise should be the first clue that the reviews are a herd-like following of other reviewers rather than looking at the movie apart from the name branding and previous praise heaped upon it.
If you like wasting 2 hours and 45 minutes of your life watching contrived, cliched and poorly written scenes and actors then this is your movie. If you want to see people age over 12 years, looking through your own family albums would be a much better use of time than suffering through this mess.
Universal acclaim = critic/review failure.
This review of Boyhood (2014) was written by Greenstar on 28 Jan 2015.
Boyhood has generally received very positive reviews.
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