If _Boyhood_ were a documentary... For film critics this will be a masterpiece, for parents of teenage daughters this will be a photo album. The scope of the film is impressive (it follows two adolescent friends from the beginning of middle school to their high school graduation), and the young ladies who serve as a focus are certainly charming, but as a piece of cinema there is little here to spark interest or hold attention.

[Atlántida FF] The camera becomes invisible in this chronicle of youth. And it seems that we are watching a fictional movie, a story of two friends and their tortuous road to maturity. The two mothers are almost script characters, one so fragile, the other so absorbing. There is an exquisite editing, which is essential. And a wise decision to introduce political events as elements of friction in their personal lives.