Zack Gottsagen is warm and hilarious as Zak. His personality dominates the screen. Likewise, LeBeouf feeds into Gottsagen’s charm and plays Tyler as understated and confident.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 1, 2024

The cast are on their A game, with what could be my favorite performance from Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson. But the reason to see this film is for Zach Gottsagen’s lead performance.

| Apr 4, 2024

Shia LaBeouf shines as the angst-ridden antihero. He fully inhabits the character of Tyler, handling crab nets like a pro – the byproduct of crabbing for an entire month prior to filming.

| Jul 19, 2023

A tender and often funny heartwarmer with loads of charm, personality, and humanity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

The importance of the family you make, rather than the one you're given, is at the heart of this low-budget independent American feature that just happens to have two enormous Hollywood names on the marquee.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 16, 2022

The Peanut Butter Falcon makes a strong case for the value of sentimentality.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2022

It might be pretty optimistic in its wholesomeness, but whats the point of the movies if they cant be? Especially in a film that is committed to its faithful and hopeful representation for a community that is almost never shown on screen whatsoever.

| Feb 21, 2022

Peanut Butter Falcon excels as a story of simple kindness.

| Aug 12, 2021

Swept up in those bayou waters, we all root for Zack and happily accept whatever good fortune the writers provide for him.

| Jul 23, 2021

One of the year's biggest and most welcome surprises.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Far from its tale of friendship and personal growth, 'The Peanut Butter Falcon' is an adventure comedy that is too condescending in tone for my taste. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 14, 2021

What becomes very clear as the film goes along, however, is the lack of experience of the filmmakers. The lead duo meet up with other characters at random, with little or no connection between how any of them got to that particular place.

| Feb 18, 2021

One thing it's not, mercifully in this day and age, is cynical.

| Feb 8, 2021

An uplifting movie without a bit of cynicism that (as the title might suggest) isn't afraid to be sweetly silly at times.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

A Southern fairy tale that takes the familiar and imbues it with 21st century life ... The simple story, the flawed characters, the highly fantastical and often mythicized location work together to produce a film that is beautiful in its smallness.

| Jan 29, 2021

Too breezy and unreal to have any lasting impact.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 7, 2020

This is one of LaBeouf's most authentic roles, creating a realistic yet flawed character with a heart and a troubled past.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Nov 21, 2020

Simply wonderful.

| Oct 8, 2020

While LaBeouf earned an Independent Spirit nod for his turn in American Honey, it's his work here that is easily the best of his career.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 19, 2020

Zach Gottsagen plays a young man with Down Syndrome who dreams of becoming a pro wrestler, joining a drifter (Shia LaBeouf) for a Mark Twain journey down south.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 3, 2020