Boyhood
That 100% Metacritic rating don't like, folks... This review is also up at Channel 24 - with one or two more typos. What it's about Twelve years in the life of an extraordinarily ordinary young man, Mason, from childhood to young adulthood. What we thought Shot over a few days each year for twelve years, it would be all too easy to write off Boyhood as little more than an admittedly very impressive gimmick, but the truly wondrous thing about Richard Linklater's latest and perhaps greatest film is the way he uses this “gimmick” to tell a story that perfectly and accurately captures the process of growing up. More than just a twelve-year process, however, Boyhood is pretty much the film that Linklater has spent his entire career working towards. The actual plot, as you may have noticed, is beyond threadbare and, though it may technically be classified as a “drama”, there's actually very little about the film that is particularly dramatic. Rathe...