...an amiable endeavor that benefits substantially from the top-tier efforts of its three stars...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 16, 2023

There's something strangely endearing about Boys on the Side. Perhaps it's the basic humanity woven into the movie's story, or the boundless optimism at its very heart.

| Mar 15, 2023

An engagingly acted, likable, fried green Thelma & Louise.

| Mar 15, 2023

Boys on the Side isn't a profound film or even, given the 온라인카지노추천-movie nature of its "predicaments," an especially risky one. But it's solidly endearing in terms of emotion, humor and character.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 15, 2023

Goldberg and Parker are funny and affecting, but the real treat is Barrymore.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 15, 2023

I enjoyed every minute of it, and was moved to tears at least a dozen times. It's a brave movie, and it challenges the acceptability of prejudices that are the root of some of the most dangerous social problems of our time.

| Mar 15, 2023

This is for the same audience who loved Friend Green Tomatoes and Thelma and Louise, which also are movies about women banding together for strength.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 15, 2023

Despite ads that present it as a giddy romp, Boys on the Side actually proves to be a wistful romance, a sardonic comedy, a Thelma, Edna and Louise tale of sisterly solidarity, and finally a sad, wrenching story that brings Terms of Endearment to mind.

| Mar 15, 2023

It's an original, and what it does best is show how strangers can become friends, and friends can become like family.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 15, 2023

The three women are so spirited and funny -- so emotionally keyed into all the hearts and flowers -- that they give the movie their own kind of truth.

| Mar 14, 2023

Unfortunately, the movie is too predictable.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 14, 2023

Boys on the Side is more enjoyable than it has any right to be. Three smashing all-stops-out performances by Mary-Louise Parker, Whoopi Goldberg and Drew Barrymore endow this shameless ’90s tearjerker with a rowdy, bittersweet charm.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 14, 2023

Boys on the Side is full of surprises: It's surprisingly funny and just as effectively sad. It shines with three unexpectedly sensitive performances from Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2023

It's a simple story, but one filled with so many unexpected, instant detours and eccentric, evolving characters that Boys on the Side takes on a sheen of painful reality.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 14, 2023

Boys on the Side is well worth seeing. It may end up an an asterisk in the annals of Gay movie history, but it boasts two performances you won't soon forget. And all told, it's a winning ode to enduring friendships.

| Mar 14, 2023

Although Boys on the Side is not a ground-breaking work, it is at least a well-intended step forward for Hollywood.

| Mar 14, 2023

What recommends Boys on the Side, however, is when it moves past these plot points and simply allows each actress to develop her character.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 14, 2023

Goldberg, Barrymore and Parker make every moment count, to create a warm coalition of female independence... We're lucky to go along for the ride.

| Original Score: A | Mar 14, 2023

Despite the appeal of its three lead actresses, Boys never explains how this threesome evolve into a family.

| Mar 14, 2023

For Parker, most recently seen in Bullets Over Broadway, it should be a breakthrough role her character goes through a major transformation yet it seems as natural as it is heart-wrenching. This is Goldberg's best role, period.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 14, 2023