Boys Cry

For those still not tired of small-time young Italian gangsters, "Boys Cry" can be considered a solid entry in the genre, but that doesn't mean the script makes anything new out of the usual elements.

It's hard-edged, elliptical and almost wholly without the comforts of traditional sentimentality (despite what the title might suggest), riding on a formulaic narrative that feels stale, if downright irrelevant.

A real-life thriller and a pointed political statement that tells the real story of the victims of organized crime.

Its simple yet revealing title indicates the dramatic depths into which debut filmmakers, the self-taught twins Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo, will dive with such impressive style.