pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
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FUN
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how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
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how much it moved you
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Read from 39 comments (37 from Metacritic, 2 from TMDB reviews) — 7 of them described how it moves.
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“a decent set up for the first act of the movie”
FadeBlack · Metacritic ↗
“after that the plot plateaued very hard. The second and third act simply went through the motions with little achieved other than what was established in the first act, and it just slogged on”
FadeBlack · Metacritic ↗
“This is a heart wrenching watch”
DawdlingPoet · Metacritic ↗
“This is a tough watch in places”
DawdlingPoet · Metacritic ↗
“The last movie that made me cry this hard since Der Untergang”
BloodstarvedB · Metacritic ↗
“You will leave the cinema affected by the downward spiral of a talented son who finds solace in this mad world through drugs and alcohol. It is bleak and it should be.”
goodfellas100 · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 57% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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“Director Felix Van Groeningen unflinchingly depicts the struggles and hopes of a family affected by drug addiction in a powerfully honest movie with gut-wrenching acting.”
Samantha Incorvaia, Arizona Republic · 90
“Beautiful Boy is family calamity writ large, a harrowing and horrifying (and yes, overly-long) exploration of the depths of addiction.”
Steve Pond, TheWrap · 85
“Trite as it may sound, we gradually accept that the beautiful boy of the title is not some innocent child, lost to the past, but rather the real and imperfect young man hunched before us. It’s Chalamet’s great accomplishment, and the film’s, that we feel that so keenly.”
Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair · 85
“Strong, committed performances and the upsetting ring of reality anchor a highly-personal film which cycles through addiction, relapse and rehab in an episodic way, each high as inevitable as the low which follows.”
Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily · 80
“Beautiful Boy, made by the Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen (“The Broken Circle Breakdown”), from a script by Luke Davies, is scrupulous and tenderly wounding — a drama that seizes and holds you.”
Owen Gleiberman, Variety · 80
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
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“a decent set up for the first act of the movie”
FadeBlackabout 0–33% inread it ↗
“after that the plot plateaued very hard. The second and third act simply went through the motions with little achieved other than what was established in the first act, and it just slogged on”
FadeBlackabout 33–100% inread it ↗
“This is a heart wrenching watch”
DawdlingPoetabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“This is a tough watch in places”
DawdlingPoetabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“_**Earnest and heartfelt, but narratively awkward, and emotionally unengaging**_ > _They say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. The problem with being human isn't really so temporary._ - Nic Sheff; _Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines_ (2008) > _Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself._ - David Sheff; _Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journ”
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“> “Do you know how much I love you? If you could take all the words in the language, it still wouldn't describe how much I love you. And if you could gather all those words together, it still wouldn't describe what I feel for you. What I feel for you is everything. I love you more than everything.” \- David Sheff Beautiful Boy is a true, heart wrenching story of how a father attempts to care for his drug-addicted son. Told mostly, although not exclusively, from the perspective of David, th”
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