How this all sorts itself out is a nail-biting treat...

| Jun 16, 2020

Eastern Boys cleanly escapes any accusation of blandness. An emotional uppercut of a film, Campillo's latest is one which may take several days to fully recover from.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2019

This is a tough, important film, and one that wields ambivalence like a cudgel.

| Aug 25, 2018

Wholly unsatisfying, interminable in length with marginal acting, at best, there is little but the opening 15 minutes and the mesmerizing Daniil Vorobov to recommend this film.

| Sep 15, 2017

The film tackles solidarity and solitude, economic class, language and lingering ages -- managing to remain engaging throughout most of its two hours-plus running time.

| Jul 18, 2015

Writer-director-editor Robin Campillo has crafted an unruly yet pointed drama that should intrigue patient viewers.

| Apr 30, 2015

The movie argues that these teens' lawless, selfish mentality is a by-product of having grown up in war-stricken countries such as Chechnya, where they lived through horrors that permanently skewed their moral compasses.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2015

Dour, dark sexual drama about a rich, middle-aged French pervert (Olivier Rabourdin) who arranges for a rent boy to turn up to his plush apartment only to find his plans going awry.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 8, 2015

[An] ambitious and often arresting French drama.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 6, 2015

Campillo has fashioned an empathetic exploration of what it is to be an immigrant intertwined with an acutely original love story. This offering is clearly a highpoint of 2015 for any lover of challenging, yet immensely entertaining films.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 4, 2015

It's a fairly straightforward home invasion set-up, but what makes writer-director Robin Campillo's sophomore feature so intriguing is how it carefully subverts expectations.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 3, 2015

A torrid, slow-burning, yet highly combustive French drama, Eastern Boys is rife with psychological tension and inter-cultural unease.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 2, 2015

(Writer-director Robin) Campillo's script takes several surprising turns, and the film's denouement is quite touching. The film manages to be both sexy and compassionate, which makes it all the more impressive.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 28, 2015

Both surprisingly resonant, and something of a thrill-ride.

| Feb 27, 2015

[Campillo] leaves us, at the end, in an appropriately ambiguous place.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2015

Warm, emotionally resonating and quietly powerful with tender, natural performances.

| Original Score: 9.12/10 | Feb 26, 2015

Explores interlocking themes of sexuality, immigration and power dynamics with a cleareyed sensitivity and refuses to demonize even its shadiest characters.

| Feb 26, 2015

The premise is so simple and the storytelling so uncluttered that it cannot fail to lodge in your mind.

| Feb 26, 2015

Impressively staged and non-judgmental study of the love between a john and a young hustler is compelling but a tad too cold.

| Feb 26, 2015

As each new chapter unravels, so do our preconceived notions of the film's characters.

| Original Score: 7.8/10 | Feb 26, 2015