Stupid Boy
Picture This! Entertainment | Release Date: September 16, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
3
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The New York TimesJeanette Catsoulis
An intriguing examination of alienation and dysfunction, tonally haunting rather than melodramatic. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
Composed of artfully used split-screen, lots of hand-held camera, and expertly honed dialogue, the film floats on currents of sadness and understated humor. It also makes Loic's existential ache almost palpable. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Loic's journey is rich in incident and detail, and Garçon Stupide retains its dynamic momentum throughout. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneJessica Reaves
A caveat to viewers: This brand of movie sex, as directed by 30-year-old Lionel Baier, is emphatically not for the puritanical. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Raw, uncompromising and surprisingly explicit. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJoshua Katzman
Baier's interweaving of documentary-style sequences with poetic, dreamlike imagery underscores the competition between Loic's harsh external circumstance and his lyrical internal yearnings for a better life. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Until the lean script by Baier and Laurent Guido takes some unconvincing turns in the late going, the film is a credible portrait of alienation. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
Garçon Stupide is interesting enough to merit an audience broader than its intended niche, though it isn't perfect. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldPeter Debruge
Baier's style is almost uncomfortably voyeuristic, amplified by the casting of a young, inexperienced actor (Pierre Chatagny) in a part that calls for hardcore sex. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Garçon Stupide was shot on digital video and is the rare piece of European sexual realism centered completely on a boy's awakening. Read full review
50
Village VoiceDavid Ng
The result is a better-late-than-never coming-of-age tale that is by turns earnest and corny, though never stupide. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
The real struggle here isn't so much Chatagny's slow emergence into maturity as Lionel Baier's directorial struggle to balance artful and erotic elements. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Mostly it's tedious as we watch the photogenic but emotionally blank Chatagny bounce between anonymous sexual encounters. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Should we really be so moved and uplifted that a horny, ignorant young man begins to join the human race? Not when our voice of conscience is an off-screen filmmaker issuing pseudo-profound, and ultimately banal, pronouncements about the true nature of love and seduction. Read full review
25
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Garcon Stupide features the best gay seduction scene ever filmed on a Ferris wheel. Unfortunately, you have to sit through the entire movie to get to it. Whether you want to will depend on your interest in explicit gay sex. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid Wiegand
Dull and uninteresting. Read full review
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