Beautiful Boy lacks so much as a foreground, or much of any ground at all. It's a Lifetime movie at worst and a glorified acting exercise at best. Should you see the full movie?
Felix Van Groeningen narrates a sequence from his film featuring Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell. What makes him so great for this movie is his fearlessness. Beautiful Boy movie reviews & Metacritic score: Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy Beautiful Boy deserves a much higher rating.
The film is honest and I empathized with the issues because the film explores the pain in such a real way. Beautiful Boy deserves a much higher rating. The film is honest and I empathized with the issues because the film explores the Beautiful Boy is a must-see for everyone. It deserves Oscar nominations for Timothee Chalamet, adapted screenplay. "Beautiful Boy" is based on both of their memoirs: David's Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction and Nic's Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines. Both men are writers—David Sheff is a longtime journalist—and individual details give their tale a rich specificity. Beautiful Boy Review: Chalamet & Carell Shine in Drug Addiction Drama.
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Beautiful Boy Review: Chalamet & Carell Shine in Drug Addiction Drama. Beautiful Boy is well-acted and handles a sensitive topic with the care it deserves, yet ends up being an 'important' film more than. Beautiful Boy is based on two memoirs, one written by the father and the other by the son.
If Beautiful Boy is meant to be a critique of artsy, moneyed liberals' complicity regarding their privileged, addled offspring, it kneecaps itself with an onscreen message that ends the film. "Help is out there," it insists, but only if your parents can afford it - and only if you're a beautiful boy. 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. 'Beautiful Boy': Carell, Chalamet Star in Gut-Wrenching Addiction Drama. What this movie gets right, as opposed to most drug dramas, is that addiction isn't always a reaction to real-life traumas.