Honey Boy

Sometimes painful to watch, but it is also a moving depiction of a man's struggles to understand and perhaps forgive.

The movie feels very raw. LaBeouf's voice is very unfiltered through this movie... You can tell that he's working through things as he writes the movie.

...a very personal and painful statement from LaBeouf and it's to Har'el's credit that she gives it some context and focus, as well as extracting wonderful performances from all the actors...

Honey Boy, despite its heavy subject, is a deeply empathetic and generous drama that strikes at the heart of complex parent-child relationships and inherited trauma.

A movie that could easily have crashed and burned. That it does not has something to do with the shared intensity of character and performance. All three main actors share the stage as equals and the level of commitment is remarkable.

It works as therapy. It works as an acting showcase. But the dips and flips we demand from narrative art are missing throughout.

Honey Boy might be LaBeouf’s ultra-personal autobiographical attempt at self-repair, but it also succeeds as a brutally honest and thoughtful reflection on a formative love-hate relationship.

A muscular, potent drama that explores the relationship between contemporary men, in this case, a father and a son. [Full review in Spanish]

By the final frames of Honey Boy, it becomes achingly apparent that the film is at once a work of auto-fiction and confessional.

Episode 53: Honey Boy / Earthquake Bird / Ford v Ferrari