In her review for "The New York Times", Manohla Dargis stated that the film's realism was "jolting" and "so brilliantly realized and understated that it would be easy to overlook". A. O. Scott, also writing for "The New York Times", called "Boyhood" the best film of 2014, saying that he could not think of any film that had affected him the way "Boyhood" had in his 15 years as a professional film critic. Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" also named "Boyhood" the best movie of the year, calling it the year's "biggest emotional powerhouse". Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" called it "one of the greatest films of the decade". Richard Roeper gave the film an A+, calling it one of the greatest films he had ever seen. Wai Chee Dimock, writing in the "Los Angeles Review of Books", compared Linklater's film with Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee's memoir, "".