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Beautiful Boy (2018) - Critic Reviews - Page 9 of 10

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By Carlos F. Heredero (36) for Caimán Cuadernos de Cine (109) on 24 Sep 2018

As mediocre as it is sensational and predictable. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Ella Kemp (95) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 20 Sep 2018

What separates this performance from other depictions of drug addiction or difficult teenagehood is that Chalamet walks a careful line of irrational…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2018

Felix Van Groeningen commendably sustains the story's profound sense of irresolution: abuse-rehab-relapse, abuse-rehab-relapse, abuse-rehab-relapse—an…

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By Dwight Brown (181) for National Newspaper Publishers Association (180) on 17 Sep 2018

This over-produced, Hollywoodish film fails miserably at bringing their harsh reality to life…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for The List (2,018) on 16 Sep 2018

Handsomely photographed but inevitably tending towards the repetitive, the film teases out the raw emotion in a story that can start to seem…

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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Solzy at the Movies (339) on 16 Sep 2018

The emotional performances in Beautiful Boy cannot be understated enough because they are what drive this film in spite of a non-linear narrative…

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By Joe Lipsett (87) for InSession Film (54) on 14 Sep 2018

Beautiful Boy isn't a bad movie, but it's not a particularly good one either…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Sep 2018

There is a strange emotional detachment to Felix van Groeningen’s adaptation, which renders the tale needlessly cold…

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By Erik Anderson (42) for AwardsWatch (42) on 12 Sep 2018

Timothée Chalamet doesn't miss a beat... with another astonishing performance, navigating emotional highs and lows like a seasoned veteran…

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By Tim Appelo (178) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 11 Sep 2018

Carell's performance, tightly wound but powerfully emotive at moments of crisis, is the news here, a banked fire of helpless rage facing a…

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By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 10 Sep 2018

Health and happiness are both so near and so unattainable in Beautiful Boy…

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By Robert Koehler (477) for Cinema Scope (405) on 10 Sep 2018

The decision, whether by Davies or van Groeningen, to gloss over the horrors of the addict's life is surely the strangest element of Beautiful…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 10 Sep 2018

There's a lot to admire in Beautiful Boy on a performance level, but Carell and Chalamet's work is often buried in frustrating filmmaking…

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By Clayton Davis (240) for AwardsCircuit.com (450) on 09 Sep 2018

With standout performances from Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet and Maura Tierney, there's plenty to take away…

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By Caitlin Quinlan (28) for The Skinny (809) on 09 Sep 2018

Beautiful Boy is an affecting drama with impressive lead performances, guided by a sensitive directorial hand…

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By John Powers (147) for Vogue (149) on 09 Sep 2018

The one undeniable reason to see Beautiful Boy is Chalamet, who brings the same emotional transparency that he brought to Elio in Call Me by…

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By Allyson Johnson (161) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 09 Sep 2018

Just like the young man at its center, the film is evocative, at times dazzling and too frequently unreliable as a source of consistent storytelling,…

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By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 08 Sep 2018

Far from perfect, and very rarely offering us anything unexpected, Beautiful Boy is nevertheless a well-mounted depiction of the terrible cycle…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 08 Sep 2018

If this was Nic’s story from the start I wouldn’t know a better avenue existed…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 08 Sep 2018

The detachment at work in Beautiful Boy suggests an attempt to speak clearly and truthfully, to resist the clichés of the addiction drama…

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