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- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A documentary about white boys playing politics and trashing the values of citizenship.
- Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: It finds in this purely ceremonial exercise a stark portrait of a deeply divided country at a crossroads, and in its protagonists’ struggles, a charged journey full of suspense, disappointment, and joy.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: riveting…a microcosm of the state of our divided nation as displayed by seventeen year-old boys, predominantly white and conservative, who are at turns impressive, infuriating, silly, mean-spirited, compassionate and frequently surprising.
- Glenn Dunks @ The Film Experience
- Excerpt: I watched the new Apple+ and A24 documentary Boys State and, sorry to break it to you, but America is nuts. Like, really. A lot. I’m allergic to nuts—anaphylactic, send me hospital kind of allergic—and I felt as if I were about to break out in hives watching Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ compelling and unsettling new movie.
- [New] | Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: There’s a lot to be hopeful for in what they’ve included throughout Boys State even if the result makes the whole a two-steps forward, one-step back situation.
- Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Reviews
- Excerpt: Like a reality TV show cinema vérité.
- Josh Taylor @ www.forgetfulfilmcritic.com
- Excerpt: Boys State is a masterful piece of observational, verité cinema. It’s every bit as engrossing as something like Harlan County, USA – although the stakes of that film, about striking coal miners in Kentucky, are literally life-and-death – and carries on the grand tradition of the direct cinema approach of the Maysles Brothers and Frederick Wiseman.
