Undeniably masterful. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but should not be missed. Its pivotal plotline is a love story between two boys, seemingly the only genuine love in the entire film. Black and brilliant stuff.

My Movie Rating: 10 / 10

I didn't see the need for the NC-17 rating. I liked the movie but thought it could be so much more.

My Movie Rating: 5 / 10

Okay, the movie was not bad. At least not too bad. The whole story does so extensively deal with homosexual scenes that I wondered if they really had to do this. The story itself - good, almost brilliant. The thing is after the first half of the movie, the storyline decreases and turns into an ordinary crime story. It's just the old priest and the young actor trying to kill Angel. What I did like was the sequences of the two boys in that school. Right, boys of that age can experience some kind of attraction to friends and other boys, and even sexual encounters are not too extra-ordinary. But it almost appeared to me that you have to be gay just because you grew up in this school run by priests. That's a bit too biased. The mixing of narratives and time settings was okay, it added some sophisticated element to the story. Nonetheless not one of my favorites.

My Movie Rating: 6 / 10

Great plot manipulation. I detected 3 layers of storytelling but I think I missed one or two. The boys are just beautiful.

My Movie Rating: 9 / 10

This is a fairly complex film so you'll probably have to watch it a couple of times to understand it properly. The boys are only seen in the lengthy flashbacks but there is enough substance in them to make this film more than worthwhile.

My Movie Rating: 8 / 10