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Cut Sleeve Boys
Regent Releasing

Cut Sleeve Boys reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 45 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
3.0 out of 10
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Starring Chowee Leow, Steven Lim, Gareth Rhys Davis, Neil Collie, John 'Ebon-knee' Campbell, Paul Cox, Michelle Lee, and David Cary

Cut Sleeve Boys is a quirky stir fried journey of self discovery and ultimately, a makeover of the British Chinese gay experience. (Regent Releasing)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Ray Yeung  
DIRECTED BY: Ray Yeung  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: November 13, 2007 
Theatrical: August 10, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 86 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: UK / Hong Kong 

What The Critics Said

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70
LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
There’s a lot to like in writer-director Ray Yeung’s low-key romantic comedy, once you get past its overly enunciated identity issues, which were, according to Yeung, the film’s raison d’être.
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70
Film Threat Phil Hall
Something of a surprise: a gay-oriented feature that is genuinely touching and sincere.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle David Wiegand
Better than its promotional description: "A stir-fried journey of self-discovery" - but not by much.
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50
Variety Jay Weissberg
No amount of Botox or false eyelashes can rejuvenate helmer Ray Yeung's Cut Sleeve Boys, which recycles way too many gay cliches.
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50
TV Guide Ken Fox
There's nothing particularly original about art-director-turned-filmmaker Ray Yeung's good-natured look at a pair of aging gay men in London, other than the fact that these men happen to be of Chinese descent. Beyond that, it's pretty much gay business as usual.
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40
Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
The bones of something more interesting are there -- how people come to mentally and emotionally define themselves and the ways in which they often need to realign those beliefs -- but Yeung can never reconcile his impulses toward humor and human conflict, so things tend to sputter about, feeling disconnected and episodic.
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38
Chicago Tribune Sid Smith
Despite original touches, Cut Sleeve Boys is mostly a mediocre gay-themed movie plagued by tired humor and slapdash filmmaking.
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30
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Unfortunately the movie's more interesting and challenging social aspects, which imply more than one "British-Chinese gay experience," are often overtaken by its smarminess--including an aggressively banal score and the way some actors have apparently been encouraged to overwork their eyebrows.
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