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Oct 11, 2018 · “Beautiful Boy” is not a bad movie. It was made with earnest care and honorable intentions, and concludes with a recitation of one of Charles Bukowski’s best poems.
- Felix Van Groeningen
- A.O. Scott
- 3 min
Beautiful Boy is a true story told from two perspectives: a son battling drug addiction, Nic Sheff, played by Timothée Chalamet, and his father, the journalist David Sheff, played by Steve...
Beautiful Boy is a textbook example of how bad editing can ruin a movie. Given the timely and important subject matter, dual perspective, and terrific performances (and, surprisingly to me, an A+ soundtrack), I would have expected multiple Oscar nominations and positive reviews, but audiences and critics couldn't connect with the movie, which I ...
Nov 20, 2022 · Although "Beautiful Boy" explores Nic's homelessness and stealing to buy drugs, the film doesn't depict Nic turning to sex work to fund his addiction.
Oct 12, 2018 · Director and co-writer Felix Van Groeningen mostly avoids those familiar horrors in “Beautiful Boy,” instead depicting one young man’s struggles with methamphetamine as a series of sun-dappled, time-hopping vignettes. His father’s efforts to pull him away from the brink—over and over again, with increasingly fruitless results ...
Oct 12, 2018 · There are two perspectives at play in Felix Van Groeningen’s new film, Beautiful Boy, reflecting the fact that two memoirs were adapted into a single tale about the ravages of addiction.
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Oct 12, 2018 · CNN — Based on twin memoirs by father and son, “Beautiful Boy” is a grim fact-based account about the horrors of drug addiction, conveying the shame of the addict and, perhaps most forcefully,...
