Boyhood

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

Boyhood landed as a near-unanimous critical phenomenon on release, with many reviewers calling it one of the greatest American films ever made and singling out Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke's performances as quietly extraordinary. The minority dissent that did exist cut two ways: a handful of critics felt the film's reputation outran its actual dramatic satisfactions, while a more pointed strand of criticism argued that its portrait of an ordinary Texas childhood was racially narrow in ways the film seemed unwilling to examine.