I would be lying if I didn't say that I found it moving.

| Jan 29, 2019

Beautiful Boy has a remorseless emotional integrity... It is frustrating, repetitive and inconclusive, and all the more admirable for it.

| Jan 26, 2019

I loved watching it. It's fantastically enjoyable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2019

Mimicking the relapse-recovery cycle of addiction, the film's timeline moves in unsatisfying narrative circles that stall the already shallow stakes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 20, 2019

The lack of any kind of third act doesn't even allow it to pass for a solid "disease of the week" picture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2019

It is a film of rare emotional complexity and punch - not just wincingly sharp on the business of addiction in particular, but also a heart-piercing ode to fatherhood at large.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2019

Yet Beautiful Boy is that rare cinematic artifact, a film that purports to be about one thing (in this case, addiction), but when you scrape away the surface dazzle, is really about everything.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 17, 2019

Despite its shortcomings, Beautiful Boy delivers a powerful message of love and understanding whilst highlighting some complex issues related to the addiction crisis currently sweeping America.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2019

This supersensitive and tasteful movie is all but insufferable, suppressing a sob at the tragedy of drug addiction afflicting someone so young and "beautiful".

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2019

Beautiful Boy is just all too pretty and weirdly unemotive. It's less a satisfying movie than a beautifully burnished actors' showcase.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2019

Carell is heroically good as the father vexed by his powerless compassion and Chalamet equal to him in his wrestling, restless awareness of his own path to destruction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2019

A based-on-fact family drama whose truths may hit too hard for some, but are worth suffering if only to witness Timothée Chalamet's performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 15, 2019

Devastating, dramatic, but most of all empathic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2019

As a narrative Beautiful Boy falters, but as a character study of a father and son relationship it excels.

| Jan 2, 2019

Homelessness isn't Timothée Chalamet draped handsomely across a diner; it's contemptuous glances and shame.

| Dec 19, 2018

The leads are superb, buoyed by Amy Ryan as Nic's mom, Maura Tierney as his stepmother, and LisaGay Hamilton in a moving cameo.

| Oct 26, 2018

It all sounds very heavy and bleak, but there is a lightness of touch in Beautiful Boy that keeps it from being enveloped in unbearable darkness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2018

When the family dynamics are front and center, "Beautiful Boy" resonates, as it reflects the ugliness of addiction and the long tail it wags.

| Original Score: B | Oct 26, 2018

A well-executed paint-by-numbers story of a family with a troubled teen,.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2018

The film suffers from a certain superficiality, as if determined not to tell us more than the real-life David and Nic might have learnt. On a human level, this choice may be admirable, but it doesn't always lead to compelling drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 24, 2018