Fresh
Both surprisingly resonant, and something of a thrill-ride.
Bob Mondello, NPR
Overview
Arriving from all over the Eastern Bloc, the men who loiter around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris are scraping by however they can, forming gangs for support and protection, ever fearful of being caught by the police and deported. When the middle-aged, bourgeois Daniel approaches a boyishly handsome Ukrainian who calls himself Marek for a date, he learns the young man is willing to do anything for some cash.
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91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Explores interlocking themes of sexuality, immigration and power dynamics with a cleareyed sensitivity and refuses to demonize even its shadiest characters.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
By turns a frightening home-invasion drama, a tender love story and a tense hide-and-seek thriller, with far more control over these unsettling tonal slides than initially seems feasible.
Guy Lodge, Variety
Fresh
Campillo thankfully refrains from offering on-the-nose explications for behavior and decisions, instead letting audiences infer psychology and motivation from on-screen behavior.
Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
"Eastern Boys" never quite fulfills the promise of those first few minutes.
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
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