"Boyhood" ★★★ 1/2
A Review by Kevin Powers
A Review by Kevin Powers
When I was a young boy, my mother, a single mother, took my
sister and I to King’s Island, just outside Cincinnati.
At
King’s Island, there is an old rickety wooden coaster called “The Beast.”
“The
Beast” is still to this day the longest, most unexpected wooden coaster in the
world. It has more ups and downs and lefts and rights than any other coaster
I’ve been on. It is exciting, fun, sometimes painful, ever enlightening.
A
lot like adolescence.
Richard
Linklater (“Dazed and Confused”, “School of Rock”) has spent the last 12 years
working on one movie. A movie called “Boyhood.” A “Beast” of a movie about a
boy growing from boy to man.