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09/28/07
December Boys (2007)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:8
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: Uneventful and far too sentimental.
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Michael Noonan, DECEMBER BOYS is a touching coming-of-age drama set in Australia in the 1960s. Maps (Daniel Radcliffe), Misty (Lee Cormie), Sparks (Christian Byers), and Spit... [More]
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Lee Cormie, Christian Byers, James Fraser
Director: Rod Hardy
Reviews for December Boys
1 - 12 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticA moving coming of age story that canvasses faith and family, The December Boys reminds us why our childhoods often hold the key to our heart.
09/06/07
Top CriticRadcliffe is good at showing vulnerability but without the skills to give it gradation. The magic doesn't work for him this time.
11/03/07
Top CriticI was not charmed. I was not moved.
10/08/07
Top CriticThere seem to be two movies going on here at the same time, and December Boys would have been better off going all the way with one of them.
09/21/07
Top CriticRadcliffe is good at showing vulnerability but without the skills to give it gradation. The magic doesn't work for him this time.
09/20/07
Top CriticA coming-of-age tale so treacly it doesn’t just tug your heartstrings, it attempts to glue them to your ribs.
09/15/07
Top CriticEnhanced by an exotic locale, the movie overcomes a well-trodden narrative path and unflinchingly brandishes its sentimentality as it stakes out its crowd-pleasing territory.
09/14/07
Top CriticThere is no magic in Daniel Radcliffe's first non-Potter movie: it's an incredible clunker: naff, sentimental, like an episode of the treacly US TV show The Wonder Years.
09/14/07
Top CriticSweet-natured but terribly dull.
09/14/07
Top CriticVisually well-mounted but narratively muddled.
09/13/07
Top CriticMore Sunday afternoon filler than cinema sensation, it’s a perfectly pleasant drama, but you’ll struggle to remember it the next day.
09/11/07
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