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Bully
Lions Gate Films Inc.
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Brad Renfro,
Nick Stahl,
Rachel Miner,
and
Bijou Phillips
A film based on the true story of the brutal 1993 murder of high school student Bobby Kent.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
David McKenna
Roger Pullis
Jim Schutze (book)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Larry Clark
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 22, 2002
Video: January 22, 2002
Theatrical: July 13, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
106 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Larry Clark's Bully calls the bluff of movies that pretend to be about murder but are really about entertainment. His film has all the sadness and shabbiness, all the mess and cruelty and thoughtless stupidity of the real thing.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
If you stick with Bully through its seemingly endless repetition of themes and its hurl-inducing hand-held camerawork, it does build a crude, indefinable power.

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
Ferocious and sometimes creepily funny, Bully is a raunchy suburban "Crime and Punishment."

80
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The tone -- a combination of earnestness and gallows humor -- is strangely appropriate.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The movie's somber message is worth heeding, and the acting is mostly excellent.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
That the actors can work under such scrutiny is amazing, and they are superb. The standout is Brad Renfro as Marty, the kid most under the thumb of the neighborhood bully.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
There's a terrible beauty to the work of Larry Clark, the controversial photographer turned filmmaker, that transcends chic nihilism.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The important thing is that Clark has found a new way to be creepy, which isn't easy. In the process he has created something irresistibly watchable, the kind of original piece that might mean less but reveal more than its creator intended.

63
Boston Globe
Loren King
Nothing new to say, and, in the end, no real point to make.
58
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
With its smooth skinned cast and demonized adults, doesn't feel very authentic.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Unpleasant stuff, and Clark pounces on the material with his usual relish and a discomfiting combination of moralizing and prurience.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Clark denies his audience the catharsis, resolution and renewal of classical tragedy. The film reduces its viewers to helplessness, and I'm not sure that's its intent.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It feels like a peek into the closet of a pedophile and it's genuinely discomforting.

50
Wall Street Journal
Ed Epstein
My problem is that the lack of narrative structure deprives the film of any suspense, and without suspense the film eventually collapses from its own heat like a soufflé that has been in the oven just a few minutes too long.
50
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
The film's start-and-go rhythm can be as maddening as the characters' amorality and sheer wallowing stupidity, but Clark has an uncanny talent for putting atmosphere on celluloid.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
If it weren't so rivetingly realistic, it would be an easy film to dismiss. And if it weren't so easily dismissible, it would be an easy film to defend.

40
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Oddly, Bully's only moments of power come at the film's end, after the crime takes place.
38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Just withers compared with many older, better movies about teen alienation and nihilism, from "Rebel Without a Cause" to "River's Edge."
38
USA Today
Claudia Puig
One has to wonder about the mind-set of a middle-aged filmmaker who repeatedly seeks out material about amoral and promiscuous teenagers with little to say.

30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Whatever his intentions, Clark, in his third outing as a director, has come up with a film that is seriously flawed.

30
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
Like the recent "Baise-moi," Bully is a whole lot of shock and titillation trying to pretend it's saying something. Unlike the French import, however, there's no awareness of its own absurdity, nor anything for the audience to care about in the slightest.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A truly repulsive piece of trash that says far more about the absence of values from contemporary filmmaking than the waywardness of teens.
20
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The script is worse than slack, and despite its lurid premise, Bully doesn't have "Kids" tabloid immediacy.

20
Slate
David Edelstein
A riot of sleazy camera moves, bad acting, and maladroit profane dialogue.

10
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
It's instructive to compare Bully with Jean-Pierre Ameris's "Bad Company," which tackles similar themes and manages to be explicit without stooping to cheap salaciousness. It's a genuinely disturbing film. Bully, in contrast, is merely disgusting.

10
Variety
Dennis Harvey
By turns turgid, embarrassing and plain off-putting.


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