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The Borrowers (1992)

Solid adaptation of The Borrowers and The Borrowers Afield, the first two books in the wonderful series. The action-packed follow-up miniseries, The Return of the Borrowers, adapts The Borrowers Afloat and The Borrowers Aloft. Nobody's filmed the much later last book, The Borrowers Avenged.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

The Borrowers (1997)

Agree with cal-Q-L8 and Bijou. Read the books instead!

My Movie Rating:

3 / 10

De Boskampi's (2015)

I saw this only because the talented Rick Lens is in it (in an important secondary role) and was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be well-made and entertaining. Rick Lens here demonstrates his range as an actor, playing a character very different to his character in Kauwboy.

My Movie Rating:

7 / 10

Bouboule (2014)

You'd think this was a broad, mean-spirited comedy about a fat kid. It's not. It's a fairly light film with some darker undertones that covers familiar coming-of-age material about twelve-year-old boys -- the best friend, the first girlfriend, the bullies, the absent father and idolised substitute father, squabbles with sisters, cuddles with mother, glimpsed porn and filched bras, the beloved dog -- with a unique twist: the protagonist is not merely a bit chubby, but severely obese. The film is quite clear how serious this is: it opens with the boy's doctor telling him that his heart will give out if he doesn't lose weight. So he sets to and exercises, though he can't resist his love for fatty food. And there may be hope for him, as the director of this film was obese at the same age, and apparently isn't now.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

Bouwdorp (2014)

My Movie Rating:

7 / 10

The Box of Delights (1984)

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

Boy (2010)

A very solid entry in the coming-of-age genre with good acting from James Rolleston and Te Aho Eketone-Whitu. Would make a good companion film to Whale Rider, O Tamaiti and Rabbit-Proof Fence.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

Boy (2011)

Heartbreaking.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

Boy (2008)

Death in Venice writ small and with a touch of kitchen sinkery.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

A Boy Called Po (2016)

Schmaltzy.

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou (1971)

My Movie Rating:

5 / 10

The Boy from Space (1971)

Impressive and eerie!

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

The Boy in the Dress (2014)

Interesting curiosity about a boy named Dennis who loves football, enjoys war films, is best friends with another boy and is attracted to girls and not to boys, but who also, at twelve, discovers a love of getting into fashionable dresses and going out as his female alter ego, Denise. In other words, not a trans child but a burgeoning crossdresser, on kids' TV. Silly humour, a great twist at the end and a nice message of acceptance arguably undercut by David Walliams's (he wrote the book) turn as an effeminate, fluff-headed drama teacher who becomes a useless substitute referee -- still, the film and book may go some way to reducing the world's total of pain around this sort of thing. Not in the same league though as the wonderful 1994 French short Tout le monde est parfait, about a transvestite whose young son lives with his prejudiced ex-wife and is turning out gay.

My Movie Rating:

7 / 10

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

The film is dramatically powerful and Asa Butterfield is charming but this is a very sugar-coated view of the Holocaust. Children this age would almost always have been gassed immediately upon arrival in the death camps, anyone going near the barbed wire would have been shot, and anyone who managed to touch it would have been electrocuted. I don't think little Bruno's supposed pure-hearted bafflement at what's going on around him is all that true to life, either. In the book he comes across as almost imbecilic in his naivety: he doesn't know what "Heil Hitler" means, for instance. Almost no real-life eight-year-old in Nazi Germany could have been as ignorant as that, let alone the child of a high-ranking SS officer. Nor were many children totally ignorant of the murders going on. It's recorded that schoolchildren living near the Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Hesse, Germany, where the Nazis murdered disabled people, would say of the arriving vans "Here come the murder boxes" and would taunt one another with "You're not very clever; you will go to Hadamar and into the ovens." Films like these may make us feel better about humanity but do they really help us understand it better?

My Movie Rating:

5 / 10

Boy Trouble (1939)

My Movie Rating:

6 / 10

The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2004)

Followed by The Boy Mir.

My Movie Rating:

9 / 10

The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (1970)

My Movie Rating:

7 / 10

The Boy with Green Hair (1948)

Oh who is that young sinner...? It's Dean Stockwell, armed with his Cupid's bow and carrying with an excellent performance this earnest, absorbing parable whose origins in horror at the horrors of the Second World War are stamped all over it. White God is much better, though.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

The Boy with the Yellow Circle (2013)

Interesting surrealist piece with some very striking shots.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

The Boy (2015)

Despite a very heavy-handed score, this is a good film, carried largely by the remarkable acting talents of Jared Breeze. It's partly a study of a neglected corner of Americana, partly a study of a child with callous-unemotional traits, i.e. pre-sociopathy.

My Movie Rating:

8 / 10

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