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The New York Times by Anita Gates
It does have the feel of farce at times, but much of the time it just seems determined to shock.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
There are moments of amusing melodrama, but for the most part, the action is too preposterous to take seriously, and too serious to be very much fun.
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It's a mean-spirited exercise in stilted outrageousness.
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Los Angeles Times by Kevin Crust
Blackmail Boy reaches for tragedy but settles for soap opera.
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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Black comedy requires perfect pitch: Pedro Almodovar has it and cowriters/directors Michalis Reppas and Thanasis Papathanasiou don't, at least by the evidence of this film.
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Village Voice by Melissa Anderson
Curiously, Blackmail Boy's alternate title is "Oxygen"--and by film's end, you'll be gasping for it.
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At the center of the movie, Tsimitselis makes for a disappointing blank, a pretty poster boy who leaves a long trail of emotional wreckage in his wake.
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The Greeks have a word for Blackmail Boy: boring.