Reception
Bully has 51% positive reviews on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, with 42 of 83 counted reviews giving it a "rotten" rating. The film has an average rating of 5.6 out of 10 — with the consensus: "With its lingering shots of naked teenage bodies, Bully feels more sordidly exploitative than realistic." Film critic Roger Ebert, however, made the opposite case, saying "Larry Clark's 'Bully' calls the bluff of movies that pretend to be about murder but are really about entertainment. His film has all the sadness and shabbiness, all the mess and cruelty and thoughtless stupidity of the real thing," in his four-star review. On Metacritic, the film holds an average score of 45 out of 100, based on 26 reviews.
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