Critic Reviews

• Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times

  Against the odds, the indulgent mash-up of sex, old-fashioned corn, romance-novel fantasy and AIDS tragedy is a mostly winning combo.

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  A gay tragedy in three acts and more than a dozen excellent songs, "House of Boys" conveys an emotional honesty that overrides its dated style.

• Andrew Schenker, Village Voice

  For all its hanging on the details of the boys' heavily eroticized performances and its graphing of the relationships between the young performers, the film is at once too drawn out and underdeveloped.

• Steve Ramos, Boxoffice Magazine

  [A] sweet natured and showy go-go boys drama.

• David Noh, Film Journal International

  The message is everything in this film that one wants to recommend to the young and uneducated in a forgetful age, despite its lack of originality and its dramatic lapses.

• Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

  Heteros get their Crazy, Stupid, Love. this weekend, and I guess gay New Yorkers, fresh off their immensely satisfying we-have-arrived nuptials, get their own Crazy, Stupid, Tragedy. as counterprogramming.

• Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

  While it feels somewhat dated, as well as melodramatic, the filmmaking is intimate enough to keep us engaged with the characters.

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