50
An impressive work that's ultimately undone by its excessive style.
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40
The viewer, though unavoidably alert, is before long too numb to care.
50
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
Gratuitous, yes, but Giannaris has the visual finesse to make it work.
38
Feels like a Greek version of "My Own Private Idaho."
50
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.
60
If it's not an entirely wholesome portrait of the immigrant experience, it's certainly an entertaining one.
80
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Brutal yet lyrical film.
42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
All the jazzy effects and jumpy editing merely move us quicker to an otherwise predetermined tragedy.
60
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
It captures a gritty urban reality without moralizing or sentimentalizing its hapless young protagonist.