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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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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 23 Aug 2017

The film is at its best when it lets Dickinson’s deceptively blank face and Hélène Louvart’s lyrically natural cinematography tell the…

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By Kenji Fujishima (277) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 23 Aug 2017

Dickinson, in his film debut, almost makes this familiar narrative feel fresh…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 22 Aug 2017

Riveting and deeply compelling with the one-two punch of Dickinson's astonishing performance and Hittman's direction…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 22 Aug 2017

Beach Rats could have explored that ethical quandary with more depth; instead it settles for something blocked, oblique and fascinating…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Aug 2017

Hittman (It Felt Like Love) turns out to be a conventional storyteller; despite her evocative styling and Dickinson’s surprisingly assured…

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By Andrew Crump (271) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Aug 2017

If the film is tender, it’s merciless at the same time…

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By Andy Crump (279) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Aug 2017

If the film is tender, it's merciless at the same time…

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By Michael Koresky (14) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2017

Hittman, a Flatbush native, is preternaturally skilled at immersing herself in the interior world and exterior details of sexually driven,…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Spliced Personality (175) on 04 May 2017

Hittman's superlatively subjective camera sexualizes everything in its path, damp with a New York summer's cruel humidity and a hazy, exhausted…

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By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Mar 2017

Beach Rats is most compelling when it puts a self-aware focus on Harris Dickinson’s sculpted male figure…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 10 Mar 2017

British actor Dickinson - surely on the first step to a lot more film roles - slides seamlessly into Frankie's groove, the accent and the body…

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