Does a good job at showing what it is like to lose someone and have that person remain in your life even when they aren't physically present.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

Clive Owen shows sides we've not seen on screen before, while Nicholas McNulty and George MacKay give appealingly unaffected performances as his sons.

| Nov 28, 2020

THE BOYS ARE BACK and not a moment to soon. Just say yes" to THE BOYS ARE BACK.

| Nov 7, 2019

It's a simple story, true, but it's also deeply human.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2019

Mr. Owen, in his first film as an executive producer, gamely shows a new side of himself - much like the adventurous single father he charmingly portrays.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 5, 2018

Even if it weren't billed as inspired by a true story, Oscar-nominated director Scott Hicks'...film would ring with emotional truth.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 15, 2018

While not rising to the status of first rate, Boys Are Back is interesting and worth seeing.

| Jan 17, 2018

I felt a level of exasperation with how the character of Joe handled his own children. I'm not a fan of men who have a problem stepping up to the role of a parent.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 21, 2012

It's a fairly standard premise that is, for the most part, employed to middling effect by filmmaker Scott Hicks...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2011

The Boys Are Back is poignant in dealing with the stages of grief but lets up with a bit of fun. Scott Hicks really is back in town.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2010

A deeply resonant film, driven by strong performances and displaying an open affection that is too rarely depicted between fathers and sons.

| Apr 14, 2010

Takes pain and loss and gives it a slightly glossy treatment that holds the drama but doesn't quite get to the point of complete emotional puppetry.

| Feb 27, 2010

Boys Are Back shows unexpected resolve to approach the central conflict with sincerity, and that small effort takes something with the potential for dispiriting routine and makes it a truly responsive motion picture.

| Original Score: B | Jan 24, 2010

Clive Owen turns a tear-jerker into a meditation on fatherhood in The Boys Are Back

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2010

Owen reveals a rarely glimpsed warmth and the father and son dynamic has charm, but sappiness keeps the film nice, rather than as good as it might have been.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2010

Hicks's directing style is straightforward and unfussy - a description you could apply to this big-hearted film as a whole.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2010

Aggressively life-affirming, unashamedly sentimental and tear-jerking with industrial efficiency.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2010

If you could order a heart-tugging movie about a widower single dad from the Boden catalogue, accessorised with emotional moments purchased online at johnlewis.com, it might look like this excruciatingly artificial and prettified film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2010

Hicks's hand with these relationships is more than sure enough to guide this unexpectedly observant movie over its occasional rough spots.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2010