Review of The Butcher Boy (1998) by Patience W — 07 Aug 2006

Someone NEEDS to put this bad boy on DVD. People should get to know more about this movie.

This review of The Butcher Boy (1998) was written by Patience W on 07 Aug 2006.

The Butcher Boy has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of The Butcher Boy

Review of The Butcher Boy (1998)

By Andrü S (3) on 06 Jul 2013

Entertaining, disturbing, and intriguingly manipulative of one's moral compass, this brave film takes a fascinating leap into the psychology…

Read Review

Review of The Butcher Boy (1998)

By Ray D (227) on 09 Jan 2010

Blackly comic surreal film where child actor Eamonn Owens plays the titular character(with support by Stephen Rea), walking the narrow line…

Read Review

Review of The Butcher Boy (1998)

By Elise M (241) on 04 Mar 2009

I always find Neil Jordan's films interesting to great. I admire this film for painting a most disturbing personality portrait…

Read Review

Review of The Butcher Boy (1998)

By Luke B (1,067) on 10 Apr 2009

Entre le rÃ¨ve et la rÃ©alitÃ©, un film qui devient de plus en plus noir... A voir plusieurs fois pour bien le saisir…

Read Review

Review of The Butcher Boy (1998)

By Ed Q (179) on 19 Aug 2009

Non Ã¨ stato facile reperire questo film, ma le aspettative non sono state per niente deluse…

Read Review

Review of The Butcher Boy (1998)

By Arseniy V (499) on 07 Jun 2011

Awful events occur, in Francie's real world or in his imagination but they are all presented from Francie's enthusiastic perspective…

Read Review

Review of The Butcher Boy (1998)

By Ash J (272) on 21 Sep 2010

Holy Shit yeah DISTURBING as Hell…

Read Review

Review of The Butcher Boy (1998)

By James M (2,946) on 19 May 2013

Eamonn Owens is absolutely fantastic as Francis Brady in this black comedy based on the novel by Patrick McCabe about a rebellious boy growing…

Read Review

Review of The Butcher Boy (1998)

By Eugene K (96) on 07 Jul 2008

The best performance by a child actor I've ever seen…

Read Review

Review of The Butcher Boy (1998)

By Nicholas A (355) on 23 Nov 2010

A very black satire... Eamonn Owens performs amazingly well. And Sinead O'Connor deserves a big mention as the Blessed Virgin…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Rocky IV (1985)

By Richard Schickel (546) for Time (1,811) on 02 Nov 1991

A scant hour and a half long, padded with clips from earlier Rocky pictures, adding nothing to his mythic, let alone human dimensions, it lacks…

Read Review

Review of American Psycho (2000)

By Chris Phillips (6) for Movieline (883) on 16 Apr 2001

Harron, thankfully, chooses to leave most of the carnage to our imaginations, but without any psychological backing for Patrick's bloody acts,…

Read Review

Review of Rocky V (1990)

By Aaronpaul121 (79) on 24 May 2012

Definitely the worst of all Rocky movies. The scenes were just bad and the acting is really weird…

Read Review

Review of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

By Mikel. (18) on 17 Jul 2009

This is the all-time worst movie I've ever seen (all the way through). Too long, too boring, too uninteresting…

Read Review

Review of The Last King of Scotland (2006)

By Stephanies. (5) on 19 Mar 2007

While Idi Amen degraded to the status of Dictator and maniacal murderer, this movie did little to establish the foundation for his rise to…

Read Review

Review of The Discovery of Heaven (2001)

By Cátia M (19) on 12 Jul 2010

This is a very bad interpretation of a fabulous book, it doesn't provide any insight into the characters, their ideas; I highly recommend the…

Read Review

Review of Four Minutes (2006)

By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 17 Oct 2008

Underneath the harshness and the severity there is a thick, spongey layer of pure Hollywood schmaltz, and the movie runs on predictable lines…

Read Review

Review of Sweet Sixteen (2002)

By Mad M (980) on 17 Nov 2013

Meh. It doesn't press far enough in any direction to be memorable or worth watching. Good performances…

Read Review

Review of Lights in the Dusk (2006)

By Kevin D (1,252) on 22 Feb 2009

More Hal Hartleyism. Someone, please make it stop…

Read Review

Review of Clean, Shaven (1995)

By Nordic S (56) on 25 Sep 2008

Indie movie trying to give us insight into a schizophrenic man but is more about random moments with out any real story…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Logan

2017

82%1,785 Reviews

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

81%344 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023

79%186 Reviews

Upgrade

2018

76%696 Reviews

The Judge

2014

67%866 Reviews

A Simple Favor

2018

69%617 Reviews

Babylon

2022

68%144 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The Butcher Boy

1998

73%169 Reviews

Silverado

1985

72%458 Reviews

The Petrified Forest

1973

70%121 Reviews

Evan Almighty

2007

49%740 Reviews

The Express

2008

70%34 Reviews

The Sweetest Thing

2002

52%520 Reviews

Requiem for a Dream

2000

82%999 Reviews

King Rat

1965

77%29 Reviews

Ordinary World

2016

54%30 Reviews

This Year's Love

1999

72%29 Reviews