If it's not an entirely wholesome portrait of the immigrant experience, it's certainly an entertaining one.
50
L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
An impressive work that's ultimately undone by its excessive style.
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
New York Daily NewsJack 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.
50
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Gratuitous, yes, but Giannaris has the visual finesse to make it work.
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
All the jazzy effects and jumpy editing merely move us quicker to an otherwise predetermined tragedy.
40
Village VoiceDennis Lim
Village VoiceDennis Lim
The viewer, though unavoidably alert, is before long too numb to care.
38
New York PostHannah Brown
New York PostHannah Brown
Feels like a Greek version of "My Own Private Idaho."