With so much on the line, Boogie just sort of dribbles to nothingness.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 11, 2021

Writer/director Eddie Huang's flawed feature does have flashes to recommend it, particularly in depicting matters of the heart between Boogie and a no-nonsense Black classmate.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2021

I really wanted to like this movie, but honestly it's really tedious.

| Mar 10, 2021

The story of a Chinese American kid's hoop dreams is hard to enjoy when the depictions of the game are so wrongheaded.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2021

Whatever desire to get real that the film was born out of, it ultimately feels like a sign that it's time to do some growing up.

| Mar 6, 2021

Huang's voice and point of view are sharp, and once his storytelling catches up, it'll be cause to boogie.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 6, 2021

]This is a film that makes you appreciate just how useful genre can be.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 6, 2021

It may not come together as perfectly as Boogie's ode to beef and broccoli, but it's food for thought.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 5, 2021

Eddie Huang's coming-of-age sports drama uplifts the Asian American struggle while falling into the same othering it purports to despise.

| Original Score: D | Mar 5, 2021

While "Boogie" has much of Huang's urban Asian American style and swagger, the script is, unfortunately, a missed shot.

| Original Score: 2/2 | Mar 4, 2021

Huang's introductory effort exhibits ambition and energy but ultimately doesn't look ready for the big leagues.

| Mar 4, 2021

It's a competent movie, but it doesn't quite make it to the big leagues.

| Mar 4, 2021

While Huang's approach to the characters and their interactions feel fresh and personal, the entire basketball plot is cobbled together from countless sports-movie clichés.

| Mar 4, 2021

In basketball terms, it's not just that Boogie's a star player who never passes the ball. He also rarely shoots. He mostly just stands in one place, listlessly dribbling.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 4, 2021

"Boogie" has some hops. But its all-around game could use a little work.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2021

"Boogie" is a sometimes-fascinating film about the pull of culture and family on a teenager trying to figure out his complicated life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Boogie's got personal vision and swaggering flair to spare - Huang wouldn't have it any other way.

| Mar 4, 2021

The film's characters hardly possess a sense of a history or an interior life to adequately convey racism's psychic toll.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 4, 2021

Eddie Huang's directorial debut about a Chinese American basketball player trying to balance athletics, romance and parental expectations compensates for its narrative shortcomings by conveying a strong sense of its milieu's culture and customs...

| Mar 4, 2021

It's a familiar setup approached from a less-than-familiar angle, and "Boogie," ambitious and clumsy by turns, cycles rapidly through the conventions of the teen sports melodrama, with an eye toward fulfilling some and subverting others.

| Mar 4, 2021