Todd McCarthy
The Hollywood Reporter
Beautiful Boy is a one-note, prosaic, on-the-nose look at drug addiction that's set up as a showcase for two fine actors. Based on complementary memoirs by a father and son played respectively by Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet, Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen's first American film is predictably straightforward and loaded with moments that trigger music cues for a vast array of tunes meant to relate to, or create, the mood of the moment when he hasn't been able to.
This Amazon theatrical feature outing has its selling points, particularly as Chalamet's first major role since his career-making work in Call Me by Your Name, but the emotional roller-coaster ride is only observed, never felt. [...]
di Todd McCarthy, articolo completo (4702 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Hollywood Reporter 7 settembre 2018
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