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Boys State
Directed by
Jesse Moss
and
Amanda McBaine
2020
1h 50m
PG-13
Documentary
7.6
95%
91%
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A thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
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Cast of Boys State
Ben Feinstein
Self
Steven Garza
Self
Robert MacDougall
Self
René Otero
Self
Eddy Proietti Conti
Self
Boys State Reviews
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
In this little microcosm you see not only a portrait of some serious-minded youths, but how their world views, morals and political beliefs have been molded by what's happening in the country.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
Boys State is one of those movies that will play differently based on both your political affiliation and whether you see the glass as half-empty or half-full.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
"Boys State" is a remarkable glimpse at the state of politics today.
AV Club
Erik Adams
Boys State has noble aims when it comes to teaching teenagers how their leaders are chosen and held accountable, but Boys State shows that those aims can only do so much to keep the uglier side of that process at bay.
Baltimore Magazine
Max Weiss
The filmmakers, Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, focus mostly on four boys -- and they've chosen wisely.
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
The experience is perfectly setting these kids up for what American democracy is -- it's about winning and losing, your party's success... Boys State, as a chronicle of this experience, accurately then also focuses on winning and losing.
812filmreviews
Robert Daniels
Boys State offers a ruminative peek into America's future.
Austin Chronicle
Mike Clark-Madison
These are just boys, and it is all pretend, but Boys State, like the event itself, delivers some legitimate life lessons.
The New Republic
Jo Livingstone
The documentary about a political boot camp is a depressingly accurate microcosm of the American electoral circus...helpful-if only as a cautionary tale about what extracurriculars not to enroll your kids in.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
A nagging absence buzzes throughout nearly the entire film, distracting the viewer from the substance, however engaging, of what's onscreen.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
The film is uplifting, funny, thrilling, and revealing... their experiences provide both a microcosmic look into the political process and a hint of the way future politics might unfold, in dismal and strangely hopeful ways.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Amy Nicholson
This is an outstanding documentary... It has you wondering how much politics is like Lord of the Flies.
Slate
Madeline Ducharme
For much of the film, Moss and McBaine have viewers on the edge of their seats over which of the boys will ascend to the program's highest, and most coveted, position.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Boys State, a hugely entertaining and scarily edifying documentary by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, pulls you in with the power of its premise. Once you know what it's about, you're eager to know what it reveals.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
Directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine have accomplished the seemingly impossible task of taking a group of ambitious, media-fluent teens and somehow making the camera melt away.
TheWrap
Steve Pond
An entertaining movie whose central figures are judiciously chosen to give us just enough balance that we don't despair.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
It's easy to be charmed by "Boys State," which is so good that you wish it were better.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Alison Willmore
Boys State belongs to that realm of documentaries, like Spellbound and Mad Hot Ballroom and Cheer, that take their structure and draw their suspense from the competitions they chronicle.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
"Boys State" is remarkable in the way it shows this country's political future being formed away from the catechisms of parents, hometowns, and Fox News.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
"Boys State" is a portrait of the country in microcosm: divided, but not yet irredeemably lost.
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