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90The definitive representation of young American men at the start of the 21st century.
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88Has the high-octane feel of real life, closely observed.
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88Pays off with emotional dividends well worth the time investment.
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80Takes us inside the consciousness and the coded masculine world of a single character.
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80Reflects the sensibility of the generation it holds up to critical scrutiny, and it's a cunningly ambiguous act of self-portraiture.
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78Remarkable debut feature by New Yorker Ben Younger.
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75Energetic, provocative.
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75Shouldn't be overrated, but it's the first film of the year - and it's mid-February already - capable of keeping a grown-up awake.
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75Younger, in his debut feature, is as canny as he is derivative.
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75Ends up being empty, anti-climactic and overlong.
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70Made with confidence that borders on bravado, and sometimes it shows more conviction than it does grace.
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70You come away from Boiler Room eager to see what Younger will do next.
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70The idea of the boiler room as a Y2K gladiator ring for disenfranchised youth provides a proactive new twist.
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70This pitch-perfect, richly detailed portrait of raw greed works very well.
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70Curiously intense, alertly principled, refreshingly uncynical movie.
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70As a piece of journalism then, Boiler Room is first class.
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67A classic Sundance résumé movie -- texturally interesting, bubbling with ideas, and as structurally predictable as a cardboard box.
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63For a movie that begins so intriguingly, Boiler Room becomes boilerplate all too quickly.
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63Boiler Room's behind-the-scenes veracity makes it highly compelling.
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63Derivative and flawed. But it does throw off a few sparks.
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60Isn't a must-see, but it's definitely worthwhile.
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60Tries too hard to prove it has a "heart" when the whole point is that its subjects do not.
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60If Boiler Room isn't an especially challenging movie, it's still a damn good melodrama -- a boilermaker.
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60Begins extremely well as a saga of greed and conspicuous consumption, but gradually loses its bite.
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50Fascinating -- up to a point.
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50Generates very little heat.
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50Writer-director Ben Younger has sketched the foreground of this picture but never gets around to filling in the details.
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50First-time filmmaker Ben Younger makes not a single false move when delineating the merciless, high-testosterone world of boiler-room brokerages.
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50Fails to single out one plot thread and make a claim to it.
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Tries to make larger points, but it trips over itself just trying to make the small ones.
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42Suffers by invoking better films about similar themes.
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40Mostly this film skims by on the surface, its conflict and climax visible from the opening five minutes.
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38Blessed with some outstanding performances, among them Ribisi's.
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30Fast-paced editing doesn't compensate for unconvincing dialogue.
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