Although at times longer than necessary, it works as a journey to those emotions that shape us as people, and the memorable imprints (positive and negative) that adolescence can leave. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2023

The film reaches a conclusion that is satisfying but open-ended. You can’t help but wonder what Lucas did next.

| Sep 26, 2023

Winter Boy is one of his more disciplined enterprises, but it still can be maddening, in a peculiarly stereotypical French way wherein characters constantly traverse the gamut of emotions as if hammering out xylophone arpeggios.

| Jun 2, 2023

The strange mixture of vulnerability and strength that Honoré wanted to convey never convinces, and the film ends ridiculously, in flagrant hypocrisy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 2, 2023

Incredibly focused, feeling more like a personal excavation of one’s own childhood than what could’ve been a generic exploration of the cycles of grief.

| Original Score: C+ | May 17, 2023

A bitter story about a somber period in time where intensity and fear walk hand in hand, Winter Boy is harsh, but at the same time, hopeful. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 12, 2023

A walk through love and death in adolescence. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2023

Honoré manages to represent the abysm of loss while rescuing moments of light... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2023

In Winter Boy, Lucas’s spiritual search provides answers to sexual chaos that TikTok addicts don’t know are possible.

| May 6, 2023

... A moving and emotional film that manages to hide behind its facade a story that goes beyond a simple funeral. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 1, 2023

A bland visual pallet accurately wraps a film that runs low on emotive energy and Honoré is too dedicated to depicting acts of stilted subtlety and muted naturalism.

| Apr 30, 2023

“Winter Boy” shines when it allows its actors to quietly play out family dynamics, with Lacoste, Binoche and especially Kircher wearing the many shades of grief with effortless, endearing naturalism.

| Apr 27, 2023

Winter Boy becomes too much of a broad, all-encompassing exploration of grief within a coming-of-age tale, ringing trite while it should be personal.

| Original Score: C | Apr 27, 2023

Despite its undercurrent of anguish, the film flows with youthful energy, curiosity, and empathy thanks to Kricher who carries the story on his shoulders with the support of his co-stars. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 26, 2023

Christophe Honoré’s film tackles grief in a subtle, intriguingly indirect manner.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2023

Kercher anchors the film in a beguiling turn...radiant Juliette Binoche is poignant and heartbreaking...We've seen deeply personal films about loss before, but rarely through a queer lens and rarer still presented in such a frank and authentic manner.

| Original Score: A | Apr 18, 2023

While the film is overlong and occasionally feels meandering, it has real strength in the way it recounts events from a teen's specific perspective.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2023

The film is set up like a confessional. Like many Honoré films, Winter Boy is a beautifully drawn, melancholic film dealing with truthful emotions when life hits you like waves.

| Apr 3, 2023

Young star Paul Kircher puts in an impressively sensitive and emotionally raw peformance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2023

Tells a slow-paced coming-of-age story involving a family tragedy.

| Original Score: B | Nov 5, 2022