Beautiful Boy

There's an emptiness to this story, and it's a shame because Chalamet could've really given us the depths of what was going on in this kids life.

I would be lying if I didn't say that I found it moving.

Beautiful Boy has a remorseless emotional integrity... It is frustrating, repetitive and inconclusive, and all the more admirable for it.

I loved watching it. It's fantastically enjoyable.

Mimicking the relapse-recovery cycle of addiction, the film's timeline moves in unsatisfying narrative circles that stall the already shallow stakes.

The lack of any kind of third act doesn't even allow it to pass for a solid "disease of the week" picture.

Maybe it was the talent behind the camera that brought it down, but we will never know if someone with a little more of a focused eye and pen could have done with the Sheff's story.

Chalamet conveys all of the necessary contradictory emotions to portray an addict, paradoxically both in love with, and repulsed by, his own tendencies and actions. It's bravura work.

“Beautiful Boy” is a heartbreaking father/son story based on the memoirs of author David Sheff and his son Nic.

The real show stopper, though, might be veteran actress Lisa Gay Hamilton (The Practice). She only has a handful of seconds to practically steal the film from the leads.