- 7
...a refreshingly gentle treatment of familiar themes such as the inevitability of change, the dashing of youthful illusions and mutability of family.
—Kevin Crust Los Angeles Times
- 7
...charming...
—Ken Fox TV Guide
- 7
...tasteful and gorgeously photographed...
—Lou Lumenick New York Post
- 6
...comes clouded in a thick haze of sepia-toned nostalgia.
—Nathan Rabin Onion AV Club
- 6
...insular, Oz-centric...
—Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly
- 5
...has a screwy sense of gravity, regaining its good senses whenever it sets its sights on the struggles of the December boys to get adopted only to compromise its sensitivity with its rather obsessively middling focus on animals and other assorted things meant to highlight, over and over again, the need for human inter-dependency.
—Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine
- 5
! An awkward drama about those awkward years...
—Matt Stevens E!
- 5
... a modest, tender-hearted coming-of-age tale that would probably come and go without much notice.
—Sid Smith Chicago Tribune
- 4
Except for the breathtaking Australian landscape, there's little to recommend about December Boys.
—Tim Knight Reel
- 4
Hampered by a silly gait and an emotional range that runs from abject to abject, Radcliffe gives by far the movie?s weakest performance...
—Ella Taylor Village Voice
- 4
Hampered by a silly gait and an emotional range that runs from abject to abject, Radcliffe gives by far the movie?s weakest performance...
—Ella Taylor LA Weekly
- 4
...a coming-of-age tale so treacly it doesn?t just tug your heartstrings, it attempts to glue them to your ribs.
—Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times