Dito Montiel's brutish coming-of-age film, his first, set in Astoria, N.Y., in the Eighties, and partly in the present, so that dissimilar actors occupy the same roles (while the grown-ups in the Eighties stay in their same roles but get grayer). No doubt a "personal" film -- the central character is called Dito Montiel -- and yet unindividual, unoriginal, a profane and mundane bore. With Shia LaBoeuf, Channing Tatum, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Robert Downey, Jr., and Rosario Dawson. (2006) — Duncan Shepherd
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