Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader Feb 7, 2014

Actor Derek Magyar makes an impressive feature debut in this somber video drama about a financially savvy but emotionally distant male escort.

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Jonathan Padget Washington Post Feb 7, 2014

If anything about this scenario sounds remotely interesting, it's not.

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Peter Keough Boston Phoenix Apr 23, 2009 1.5/4

A traditional vapid romantic comedy.

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Kevin Williamson Jam! Movies Jul 6, 2007 2.5/5

Audiences outside gay cinema will, frankly, probably find it too callow to emotionally invest in. However, for those who do see it, they will likely be surprised, and entertained, by its arch insights and near-camp bearing.

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Jason Anderson Globe and Mail Jul 6, 2007 2.5/4

Boy Culture is an undemanding but sufficiently engaging serving of smut and sentiment. As such, it reclaims territory that queer cinema has largely ceded to TV shows like Queer as Folk, The L Word and Six Feet Under.

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Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune Jun 30, 2007 2.5/4

It's a better-than-average gay relationship film, largely because neither plot mechanics nor the same old camp intrude much.

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David Elliott San Diego Union-Tribune Jun 18, 2007 1.5/4

Seattle locales, some spry lines and tiny soundings of depth still leave us in the conceptual grip of 'love' as a system of endless bartering and vanity, with impulsive copulation treated as consecration. Oh, boy.

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Tom Long Detroit News May 18, 2007

Despite cliches, film does click.

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John Monaghan Detroit Free Press May 18, 2007 3/4

Benefits from some assured helming by Q. Allan Brocka and strong performances.

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Ted Murphy Murphy's Movie Reviews May 7, 2007 B+

BOY CULTURE is a well-made, engrossing and well acted comedy-drama. [The main character] X can easily reside alongside Jon Voight's Joe Buck in MIDNIGHT COWBOY as one of the screen's more memorable hustlers.

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James Reed Boston Globe May 4, 2007 1.5/4

You know something's amiss in a movie when an omniscient narrator blathers the entire way through it.

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John Hartl Seattle Times Apr 27, 2007 3/4

Brocka's direction keeps things moving, and the performances he draws from Magyar, Stephens and indie-film veteran Bauchau are always up to speed.

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Gianni Truzzi Seattle Post-Intelligencer Apr 27, 2007 C

These self-involved studs manage to make ready, anonymous sex look rather dull.

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Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press Apr 23, 2007 1/4

A drab, contrived drama in which men have sex and then complain about it to us.

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Gabriel Shanks Modern Fabulousity Apr 12, 2007 A-

Brocka leaps into the small circle of leading queer filmmakers of our time, sculpting an unpredictable romance that is complex, sophisticated and thoughtful.

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David Noh Film Journal International Mar 29, 2007

Direction and performances are not up to the task of making this convincing or moving.

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Tom Beer Time Out Mar 24, 2007 1/6

The overall effect is merely narcotic.

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Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Mar 23, 2007 3/4

Shrewder than you'd think and not half as dumb as it looks.

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David Wiegand San Francisco Chronicle Mar 23, 2007 2.5/4

As a character, X is rather reticent and buttoned-up. If he'd stayed that way as a narrator, a rather nice film would have been even better.

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Kevin Crust Los Angeles Times Mar 23, 2007 3.5/5

It is buoyed by some incisive acting and writing and anchored by a standout portrayal from Bauchau, a versatile veteran of international cinema.

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