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By Dan Gentile (5) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 27 Mar 2019

There’s a moment in The Beach Bum when aging wastrel Moondog smokes a joint in a hammock, surrounded by naked women, with two hands on a…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Mar 2019

The Beach Bum, by turn, seems to exist in the hazy headspace of its protagonist, a kindred spirit in less-than-lofty, party-till-you-puke ambition…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 27 Mar 2019

Thus the hapless hordes of college kids who went to see “Spring Breakers” hoping for a mindless good time and were appalled when the fun…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 27 Mar 2019

Though Korine (Spring Breakers) doesn’t figure out how to make his protagonist breathe (at least smokelessly), he does do a commendable job…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 27 Mar 2019

A fun-for-a-while attempt by writer-director Harmony Korine, American indie cinema’s effrontery kingpin, to go a little bit mainstream…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Mar 2019

Hard on the heels of January’s god-awful Serenity, we’re now treated to The Beach Bum — a shambling, self-indulgent inside joke about…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 26 Mar 2019

A bizarre and transfixing carnival of vulgarity and vice…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 22 Mar 2019

Meet Moondog — a movie character you’ll want to punch in the face…

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By John Fink (368) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 Mar 2019

The Beach Bum is a skillfully crafted and often hilariously entertaining, but like an evening with Moondog, it might leave you with a hangover…

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By Bobby Lepire (183) for Film Threat (5,156) on 15 Mar 2019

The Beach Bum is not a terrible movie. The directing is competent, the score is excellent, and the cast is game and hilarious…

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By Ryan Oliver (25) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Mar 2019

The hedonism on display is very much of a piece with “Trash Humpers” and “Spring Breakers,” but in a surprising change of pace for…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 10 Mar 2019

Korine’s visual gifts are on full display, capturing both the opulence of Florida and its scuzzy side in a way that finds beauty in both…

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By Dan Caffrey (33) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 10 Mar 2019

Moondog’s antics aren’t all that funny or captivating, even when divorced from their assholery…

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By Michael Nordine (446) for IndieWire (3,631) on 09 Mar 2019

[McConaughey]’s so entertaining, in fact, that it takes nearly the entirety of “The Beach Bum” to fully absorb how little else there…

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By Jon Frosch (191) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Mar 2019

Bu I, admittedly, had a hard time getting on its woozy wavelength…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 09 Mar 2019

While one can’t argue with the Oscar-winner’s commitment, there’s far more mannerisms than inspiration — a criticism that also applies…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Mar 2019

Simultaneously shaggy and hyper-stylized, The Beach Bum plays like a less-coked-out “Scarface,” the collected works of Charles Bukowski,…

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