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By Alan S (335) on 15 Nov 2005

Robert de niro is great in this plys a real bully he proves to us why he is the best actor ever he should of won an oscar for this I jsut dont…

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By Scott Weinberg (1,998) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 02 Apr 2005

De Niro does great work here. Highly underrated flick…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 20 May 2003

This Boy's Life shows how a resilient teenager survives childhood trauma and adversity through independence, anger and creativity…

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By Bill Chambers (261) for Film Freak Central (1,643) on 10 May 2003

DiCaprio goes toe-to-toe with De Niro, though his spectacular efforts here continue to be overshadowed by his Oscar-baiting in What's Eating…

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By Stephen Farber (295) for Movieline (883) on 09 Jan 2002

Caton-Jones has an extraordinary find in Leonardo DiCaprio, the 17-year-old newcomer who plays Toby with just the right mixture of ingenuous…

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By Terrence Rafferty (56) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 16 Nov 2000

Barkin and DiCaprio are sensational…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 24 Oct 2000

De Niro's decision to make Dwight a loony from the get-go throws the delicate symmetry of the story out of whack…

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By Chris Hicks (618) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 01 Jan 2000

This Boy's Life is a pencil sketch that pretends to be a full-blown oil painting…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 02 Apr 1998

It never attains full dimension. It pursues the De Niro-DiCaprio war so singlemindedly, everything else is left high and dry…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 31 Oct 1997

The process of remembering that drives the book is gone from the film, boiled away until all that's left is the mundane residue of memory -…

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By Angie Errigo (463) for Empire (3,446) on 01 Jun 1997

Despite its admirable strengths and the fact of it being a true story, there is somehow a failure to completely connect with the fierce boy,…

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By Vincent Canby (762) for The New York Times (9,847) on 03 Apr 1997

The film recreates Toby and Caroline's aimlessness, but without appearing to understand it enough to make it as moving and important as it…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 21 Oct 1996

Director Caton-Jones (Scandal, Memphis Belle) once again shows his flair for period detail though he never here exerts his grip on the human drama…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Jul 1996

For This Boy's Life to work as ominous domestic drama, it's essential that we see Dwight as a flesh-and-blood monster…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Variety (12,700) on 07 Aug 1995

Unfortunately, after a relatively promising warmup, pic actually proceeds to flatten out the characters in the latter sections and to make…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 Aug 1995

The leads work overtime to make their characters and their relationships pungent, believable, and moving (though with regard to the rest of…

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By Rita Kempley (781) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Aug 1994

Barkin's succulence and De Niro's showboating lend sizzle and ferocity to the proceedings, but the film draws its poignancy from 18-year-old…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 31 May 1993

The movie is successful largely because [DiCaprio] is a good enough actor to hold his own in his scenes with De Niro, so that the movie remains…

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