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7 October 2008 6:53 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

By Michael Atkinson

The British have a thing about underage sociopathy -- we in the U.S. will puzzle and wonder as a culture about the latest school shooter or the very occasional death-metal bogus-ritual killing, but in tabloid-crazy England a news story of a child murdering a child pinches very powerful nerve endings, and the social wound of it is felt universally and lasts for years, if not indefinitely. While the American character, often amnesiac and marinated in ideas of personal freedom and frontier independence, tends to take these things in stride (does anyone even off-handedly remember the name of that Virginia Tech psycho?), the convention-loving Brits are commonly, in contrast, traumatized for good. (There's a reason England is the most surveillance-saturated nation in the world.) This is the underlying dynamic of John Crowley's adroit and heartfelt "Boy A" (2007), which is inspired at least in part by the 1993 abduction and killing, »

- Michael Atkinson

23 July 2008 12:11 AM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »

John Crowley's "Boy A" is a well-acted but familiar British drama about a 24-year-old parolee (Andrew Garfield) haunted by a horrible crime in which he participated as a child.

His caseworker Terry (Peter Mullan) urges the young man, who has assumed the name Jack for his own protection, to put behind his lurid past. But it's not an easy task when the tabloids have blaring headlines about Jack's release and vigilantes are offering a reward for information on his whereabouts.

Jack dates a sweet co-worker (Katie Lyons) and bonds »

- By LOU LUMENICK

2 articles from 2008