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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 08 Oct 2018

While the sometimes confusing non-linear narrative keeps the whole package from coming together, the first-rate acting more than makes up for…

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By Rendy Jones (321) for Rendy Reviews (320) on 07 Oct 2018

For the most part, the film is actively at war with itself where the actors have to overcome the editing that's preventing the film from leaving…

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By Linda Holmes (61) for NPR (1,713) on 07 Oct 2018

Chalamet's charismatic, maddening Nic is spectacular, and the film's stubbornly unresolved view of loving an addict - its perception of the…

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By Erick Estrada (196) for Cinegarage (196) on 04 Oct 2018

With all its qualities, many of them contributed by the cast, Beautiful Boy does not manage to save this ditch and at times seems luminous…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 03 Oct 2018

Because he starts from a place of quite high emotion in terms of the music cues, Groenigen and his collaborators have to give us increasingly…

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By Leah Sydney (37) for Showbiz 411 (37) on 30 Sep 2018

Carell's and Chalamet's performances are to be admired for sure; the rest of Beautiful Boy, not so much…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 26 Sep 2018

Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet are aching portraits of genuine suffering; minor faults aside Beautiful Boy is the best film chronicling…

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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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