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By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 01 Nov 2018

Dramatically flat and frankly monotonous. On the plus side, Carell and Chalamet give fearless performances…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for The Movie Cricket (81) on 01 Nov 2018

As good as the cast is, particularly Chalamet in his fearless depiction of Nick's rollercoaster existence, Beautiful Boy remains a chore to watch…

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By Kiko Martinez (245) for San Antonio Current (241) on 31 Oct 2018

An insightful and uplifting father-son story where unconditional love is the real star of the film…

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By Eleanor Ringel Cater (614) for Saporta Report (Atlanta) (228) on 29 Oct 2018

Chalomet walks off with the movie. He's like James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause…

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By Tara Thorne (211) for The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (715) on 25 Oct 2018

The overwrought performances of the two men at its centre make Beautiful Boy feel rote and recycled, curiously cold…

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By Andrea Gronvall (422) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 25 Oct 2018

The leads are superb, buoyed by Amy Ryan as Nic's mom, Maura Tierney as his stepmother, and LisaGay Hamilton in a moving cameo…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 25 Oct 2018

Forget Halloween. For parents, the scariest movie of the season is Beautiful Boy…

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By Eric Eisenberg (199) for CinemaBlend (829) on 25 Oct 2018

While there is a lot to appreciate about what plays out on screen, it ultimately amounts to good instead of great…

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By Randall King (194) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 25 Oct 2018

Chalamet is a very appealing young actor, and he admirably tests the limits of that appeal with a role that acknowledges the addict at his…

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By Wenlei Ma (213) for News.com.au (213) on 24 Oct 2018

It all sounds very heavy and bleak, but there is a lightness of touch in Beautiful Boy that keeps it from being enveloped in unbearable darkness…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 24 Oct 2018

When the family dynamics are front and center, Beautiful Boy resonates, as it reflects the ugliness of addiction and the long tail it wags…

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By Stephen Silver (684) for Splice Today (140) on 24 Oct 2018

Anchored by two strong lead performances, but the film just keeps making points, and then underlining them, and adding exclamation points…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 24 Oct 2018

Beautiful Boy is so caught up in creating a general feeling of despair that we're kept at a distance from actually feeling it…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Oct 2018

An earnest but only sporadically moving portrait of a boy who slips into a spiral of drug abuse and of the father who tries desperately, but…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Oct 2018

That may be Beautiful Boy's biggest problem: That it's too emotional…

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By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 24 Oct 2018

These are deeply airbrushed images of how addiction plays out, but Groeningen casts a spell, helped by heart-breaking central performances…

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By Jason Di Rosso (253) for The Hub on Screen (21) on 24 Oct 2018

Whatever the case, an excellent Carell - not Chalamet - is the most haunting player in this moving tragedy…

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By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 24 Oct 2018

The film also leaves a lasting, illuminating impression for the way in which it carefully catalogues a father's many despairing attempts to…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 24 Oct 2018

This portrait of drug addiction and its impact on a family may be Hollywood sleek and smooth, but its authenticity is in the empathy, in the…

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By Carl Kozlowski (99) for Pasadena Weekly (143) on 24 Oct 2018

If anything, this film seems to be showing the ennui that can set in when one just lets existence pass by…

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