Oscar Money Watch: 'Boyhood' A Triumph Of 'How' Over 'What'

Roger Ebert among others liked to say that it wasn't "what a film is about" but rather "how it was about it." That's true of course, as obviously it's what separates a superhero origin story like Spider-Man and an origin story like Green Lantern. And on the surface, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is basically a well-acted and often poignant look at a perhaps somewhat generic American childhood. But the reason we are talking about the film  32 weeks after its release is the manner in which it...