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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 06 Sep 2017

The details of characters’ internal thought processes are left to our imagination…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 06 Sep 2017

This very thinly sliced character study of beautiful if benighted adolescence is more a pre-coming-of-age tale, one that takes us close to,…

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By Kathy Fennessy (88) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 05 Sep 2017

Though the trailer portends vapid soft core, [Eliza] Hitmann has a sure and sensitive hand as a director…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 31 Aug 2017

If Hittman's trippy combination of visuals and sound don't pull you in, Dickinson surely will…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 30 Aug 2017

[T]he movie doesn't quite know how to communicate what is beneath the surface, except in the broadest terms…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for The Ringer (285) on 30 Aug 2017

What happens when a character who doesn't know what he wants loses control over what little understanding he already has…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 30 Aug 2017

The most memorable thing about it is the profoundly understated sensitivity of Harris Dickinson, a (surprisingly) British actor to keep an eye on…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 29 Aug 2017

It's a predictable turn of events-Frankie's attempts to hide so much of himself away can't last forever-but since Hittman avoids such heavy-handedness…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 29 Aug 2017

Between Moonlight and the upcoming Call Me By Your Name, some are calling this the golden age of gay coming-of-age cinema; Beach Rats’ slow…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 29 Aug 2017

British actor Harris Dickinson gives a smashing breakthrough performance in Beach Rats…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 24 Aug 2017

[Harris] Dickinson, in his debut, achieves an almost unfathomably rich reservoir of feeling…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 24 Aug 2017

Hittman's devotion to the male bodies onscreen is obsessive. Most good filmmakers, and most good artists, are obsessives…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Punch Drunk Critics (518) on 24 Aug 2017

This is a better example of Hittman's skills as a filmmaker than her previous film was, even if the story is less compelling…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 23 Aug 2017

What's special about the film is how much we come to know Frankie, perhaps more than he knows himself…

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By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Aug 2017

Hittman’s depictions of sexuality, emotional crisis, and parent-teen relationships are rendered here without sentimentality — and with…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 23 Aug 2017

Dickinson is superb at tracing that veiled anguish, and Hittman--who wrote and directed the 2013 film It Felt Like Love--is a discreet and…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 23 Aug 2017

Harris Dickinson, the spellbinding British newcomer who plays Frankie, rewards the director’s scrutiny with piercing emotional depth and…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for The New York Times (9,847) on 23 Aug 2017

The back-and-forths of the character’s decisions feel real, and Mr…

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By Rick Bentley (466) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 23 Aug 2017

Beach Rats is presented in such a no-frills way that there are more moments than not when it feels like it has slipped into full documentary mode…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 23 Aug 2017

It’s hard to make a compelling movie about a character defined by indecision, Hamlet notwithstanding. Ms. Hittman, however, has done it…

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