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Bra Boys isn't really a documentary at all but a piece of PR propaganda designed to counteract years of bad press. Beautiful, soaring, exhilarating propaganda, no doubt, but propaganda nonetheless.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
This crude, rowdy movie is also unexpectedly touching in its embrace of surfing as an escape from the stigma of poverty and broken homes. Escape from Russell Crowe’s droning narration, however, is impossible.
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The film is narrated by Russell Crowe, whose star power is probably the only reason it's being released here.
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Portland Oregonian by M. E. Russell
As a chronicle of an extreme surfing subculture, Bra Boys is semi-fascinating. As a chronicle of rough-and-tumble street life, it's appallingly biased and self-glorifying.
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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
What it lacks in objectivity, it makes up for in vivid intimacy.