Just got back from Singapore at 1 a.m. today and watched Boyhood on the flight home. As with other posters here, seriously underwhelmed! It went for a long time and aside from the novelty of there being the same cast filmed over a 12 year period showing obvious changes with time, the story was rather depressing and didn't seem to go anywhere.

As a mother of two kids - one who has already flown the coop and the next in her final year of school after which she too will head off to University, I felt some empathy with Patricia Arquette's question at the end "Ïs that all there is? I thought there'd be more". Having said that, my life in no way parallels her character.