Metacritic reviews

Brutal yet lyrical film.

It captures a gritty urban reality without moralizing or sentimentalizing its hapless young protagonist.

If it's not an entirely wholesome portrait of the immigrant experience, it's certainly an entertaining one.

An impressive work that's ultimately undone by its excessive style.

Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.

Gratuitous, yes, but Giannaris has the visual finesse to make it work.

All the jazzy effects and jumpy editing merely move us quicker to an otherwise predetermined tragedy.

The viewer, though unavoidably alert, is before long too numb to care.

Feels like a Greek version of "My Own Private Idaho."