Boogie

"Ambitious and clumsy by turns, cycles rapidly through the conventions of the teen sports melodrama, with an eye toward fulfilling some and subverting others."

"Compensates for its narrative shortcomings by conveying a strong sense of its milieu's culture and customs..."

"The film's characters hardly possess a sense of a history or an interior life to adequately convey racism's psychic toll."

"Boogie's got personal vision and swaggering flair to spare - Huang wouldn't have it any other way."

"In basketball terms, it's not just that Boogie's a star player who never passes the ball. He also rarely shoots. He mostly just stands in one place, listlessly dribbling."

"It's a competent movie, but it doesn't quite make it to the big leagues."

"Huang's introductory effort exhibits ambition and energy but ultimately doesn't look ready for the big leagues."

"Eddie Huang's coming-of-age sports drama uplifts the Asian American struggle while falling into the same othering it purports to despise."

"It may not come together as perfectly as Boogie's ode to beef and broccoli, but it's food for thought."

"Makes you appreciate just how useful genre can be."

"Whatever desire to get real that the film was born out of, it ultimately feels like a sign that it's time to do some growing up."

"Hard to enjoy when the depictions of the game are so wrongheaded."