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Cut Sleeve Boys
Metascore
45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
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  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Phil Hall
    70
    Something of a surprise: a gay-oriented feature that is genuinely touching and sincere.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Malcolm
    70
    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.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    50
    Better than its promotional description: "A stir-fried journey of self-discovery" - but not by much.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    50
    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.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jay Weissberg
    50
    No amount of Botox or false eyelashes can rejuvenate helmer Ray Yeung's Cut Sleeve Boys, which recycles way too many gay cliches.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    40
    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.
  7. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Sid Smith
    38
    Despite original touches, Cut Sleeve Boys is mostly a mediocre gay-themed movie plagued by tired humor and slapdash filmmaking.
  8. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    30
    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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