Boyhood (2014)

Most people think so. 78% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 98%.

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows. Wikipedia ↗

Boyhood is a 2014 American coming-of-age drama directed by Richard Linklater, one of the most ambitious projects in cinema history. The film was shot intermittently over 12 years, from 2002 to 2013, following the same actor — Ellar Coltrane — from age 6 to 18, with Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as his divorced parents, also aging naturally on screen. Rather than depicting dramatic events, Boyhood captures the ordinary texture of growing up: homework, video games, camping trips, moving to new schools, parents' new relationships, first beers, college applications.

The result was not a conventional narrative but a mosaic of moments that accumulated into a profoundly moving portrait of time passing. Patricia Arquette won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a mother whose sacrifices and struggles span the full twelve years. Richard Linklater was nominated for Best Director.

Boyhood earned $57 million worldwide on a $4 million budget and received near-universal critical acclaim as a genuinely unprecedented artistic achievement.