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90
Viewer score based on 2 votes.

Critic Score

45
Critics' score based on 26 reviews.
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At once chilling and searing, a graphic account of dysfunctional youth at their worst. If you want to see betrayal, mayhem and murder, do not miss... his. Full Review

July 28,2008
RJ Erber
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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.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

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.Full Review

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle

Nothing new to say, and, in the end, no real point to make.Full Review

Loren King
Boston Globe

With its smooth skinned cast and demonized adults, doesn't feel very authentic.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

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.Full Review

Wall Street Journal
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