This doesn’t make the leap from “DVD supplement” to its own film-object, but anyone curious for Visconti-related reasons will probably get something of value out of this.

| Nov 29, 2022

While it's an undeniably raw look at the perils of fame, the film can't help but lose focus of its factually-based themes and deeper examinations as it goes on.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 7, 2022

Largely, this is an innocent enough film that can be skipped by all except those who are especially interested in the life and career of Bjrn Andrsen.

| Feb 22, 2022

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World is a tender look at how beauty is fleeting and life is preciousno matter how much has been taken.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 8, 2022

A small, impressionistic, oddly heartfelt movie about beauty, stardom, adoration, exploitation, and loss.

| Nov 7, 2021

his fascinating but dismally depressing Swedish documentary is well worth seeing, but never fully escapes the feeling that it's all been seen before.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2021

[Björn Andrésen] reveals lifelong and unimaginable struggles in this sensitively made film.

| Oct 20, 2021

While the film is engrossing, it's also disquieting, in that it's a tale of the results of child exploitation that itself can seem exploitative of the man the child has become.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 3, 2021

Pretentious and rather humorless, The Most Beautiful Boy has that quality of voyeurism a documentary acquires when it seems to be exploiting a subject's apparent misery without really providing insight into it.

| Sep 30, 2021

A delicate, artful and heartrending film which speaks across time to the tragic nature of innocence taken too soon.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 26, 2021

The film is a potent demonstration of the danger of objectifying youth. But it transforms a real person into a pillar of misery, ignoring anything that could complicate this picture.

| Sep 24, 2021

Andrésen has spent a long time without the language to express what he went through. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World explores and honors that trauma in equal measure, and documents a troubling moment in the history of sexuality in popular culture.

| Sep 24, 2021

Powerfully illustrating the effects of the exploitation of child actors in the film industry, this Swedish documentary also is an intimate portrait of a broken and lonely man still searching for his identity.

| Sep 24, 2021

The result is a cinematic curio in search of a more conclusive theme and emotional payoff.

| Sep 24, 2021

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World provides a haunting portrait of the corrosive effects of fame, especially of the sexualized variety, at an early age. But there are times when the film feels exploitative of its subject...

| Sep 24, 2021

Andresen's determination to rise above misfortune, and his hopes for himself, make this movie less than a total tragedy. But it's an often shudder-inducing cautionary tale.

| Sep 23, 2021

The documentary explores the fleeting nature of fame and youth, the subjective obsession of beauty and the folly of infatuation.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 22, 2021

Although extremely flawed as a film, the picture of Björn that does emerge, especially in the present day, is complex and interesting.

| Sep 22, 2021

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World will pulverize you with its sorrowful cautionary tale.

| Sep 8, 2021

A revelatory companion piece that finally joins its dots for the film-viewing public, fifty years later.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2021