Requires a certain level of tact that Beast Beast is thankfully capable of, even when some facets of the ideas it introduces don't always end up feeling fully explored.

| Original Score: 3 / 5 | Jun 26, 2021

The lives of three young people collide in Beast Beast, a patchwork-like, dramatic observation of the devastating effects of gun violence.

| Jun 9, 2021

A dramatization of how crumbling families, malleable values, and identities propped up by digital validation can create an increasingly trigger-happy society.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2021

The well-acted coming-of-age drama overcomes its clumsy gun commentary.

| Original Score: 7.2/10 | May 3, 2021

Takes the insecurities and anxieties of these young people and spins them into a vibrant and vivid portrait of growing up in this fragmented world.

| May 1, 2021

The film only succeeds at peddling barely tolerable coming-of-age cliches.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 30, 2021

Danny Madden's intriguing feature debut has a star-making turn from Shirley Chen but fails to cohere in any truly meaningful way

| Apr 29, 2021

...a promising work from Madden, and particularly from a young cast who convince with their natural, unaffected performances...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2021

For all the movie's soupiness, we're still left with a handful of memorable characters at a pivotal time in their emotional development, and for that, "Beast Beast" can boast a well-intentioned, caring integrity.

| Apr 29, 2021

It's in the push to explain a moral that it stumbles over its own good intentions.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 27, 2021

If "Beast Beast" is grand at anything, it's in pulling truth out of these connected individuals, and in making all of us empathize honestly with them, no matter what they do. It's wonderfully magical in this way, without any trick attached.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2021

While writer-director Madden's approach isn't particularly subtle, it definitely gets us thinking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2021

This drama starts out quietly, but it slowly simmers until it's at a full boil of angst and trauma related to issues affecting teens today...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2021

Great acting and storytelling in one of the most authentic depictions of growing up.

| Apr 16, 2021

Chen is extraordinary in a third act that strips Krista down to the bone, and it's easy to imagine how this entire movie would've fallen apart with a lesser actress to steer it home.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 16, 2021

If you've lived long enough, or have seen enough movies, you can easily predict every single thing that takes place here, including its jarring tonal swing.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 16, 2021

Danny Madden has delivered a strong indictment of the teenage experience in a film that should only grow esteem with age.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 16, 2021

The main and secondary actors' naturalness... is essential. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2021

Based on his own short film called Krista, it feels like Madden searched for a full-length plot to piece around the original short and it blurred the message along the way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 3, 2021

The way in which gun violence is used to propel the story and characters forward among all of this feels far too abrupt that the story and characters feel short changed in the end.

| Feb 11, 2020