Boy
Opens today at the Michigan Theater
Review by Corey Hall of the Metro Times
Grade: B+

"Boy" is a warm, curiously endearing coming-of-age story set in that that now quaint and vanished epoch when Michael Jackson could be praised — without a shred of irony or melancholy — as the most amazing person on Earth. The gloved wonder looms like a sparkly constellation far above the head of the title hero, an 11-year-old Maori lad who lives in a gorgeously rustic New Zealand coastal town, along with his weirdo younger brother, some cousins, their nan and an ornery pet goat. Boy's cheerfulness and boundless imagination acts as a buffer to poverty and loneliness; his mother is dead and his erratic father is more a legend than a parent at this point.

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