Honey Boy is a tremendously personal and sublime story that turns pain and guilt into something productive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Honey Boy might be LaBeouf’s ultra-personal autobiographical attempt at self-repair, but it also succeeds as a brutally honest and thoughtful reflection on a formative love-hate relationship.

| Jul 20, 2023

A muscular, potent drama that explores the relationship between contemporary men, in this case, a father and a son. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 12, 2023

By the final frames of Honey Boy, it becomes achingly apparent that the film is at once a work of auto-fiction and confessional.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 22, 2022

Episode 53: Honey Boy / Earthquake Bird / Ford v Ferrari

| Original Score: 60/100 | Dec 1, 2021

There's nothing better in Hollywood than a redemption arc, and LaBeouf gave us one. But a redemption arc only works if you stay redeemed, and Shia did not.

| Nov 5, 2021

A surprising, moving portrait of a father and son relationship.

| Oct 4, 2021

Sometimes painful to watch, but it is also a moving depiction of a man's struggles to understand and perhaps forgive.

| Oct 4, 2021

Honey Boy is a searing, intimate exploration of the devastation that can be wrought by dysfunctional relationships.

| Oct 4, 2021

Har'el elicits deeply felt performances from her stars, and you'll come away from the film with renewed empathy and respect for an actor who had been dismissed by many as a punchline.

| Oct 4, 2021

Honey Boy may not be a masterpiece of a movie, but it feels like an achievement in healing through film.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 1, 2021

"Offering something incredibly heartfelt and introspective, Honey Boy is special in nearly every regards"

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2020

How do you produce the best work of your career? Telling your own chaotic story and playing the role of your father. That's what Shia LaBeouf did in bravura fashion.

| Nov 10, 2020

It's not a perfect film, yet it pulls off very tough subject matter in ways both honest and inventive.

| Oct 21, 2020

A wonderfully tender evocative movie, made all the more heart rendering by it's layers of autobiography.

| Oct 8, 2020

LaBeouf's performance is nothing short of outstanding as he puts himself in his own father's headspace in a truly heartbreaking effort to better understand him, as well as grapple with the traits that they share.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2020

It's nothing short of a cinematic exorcism for one of Hollywood's most unusual figures.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2020

With Honey Boy, a PTSD therapy session masquerading as a semi-autobiographical drama, LaBeouf offers a snapshot into the helter skelter ride that was his expedited childhood.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

Light and sensitive, Har'el's direction creates a cathartic experience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 8, 2020

Written as a therapy exercise by actor Shia LaBeouf, as a part of his rehabilitation program, Honey Boy is an autobiographical tale that has the queasy qualities of a Catholic confession.

| Jul 8, 2020