Beautiful Boy
By Caroline Ely October 12, 2018
A tightly focused story of a family’s beloved son hooked on drugs and the cycle of using, cleaning up, relapsing in agony, and cleaning up again.
A tightly focused story of a family’s beloved son hooked on drugs and the cycle of using, cleaning up, relapsing in agony, and cleaning up again.
Paul Greengrass’s fast-paced and intimate docudrama is gripping from start to finish, and ultimately hopeful.
A coming-of-age story that stands out for its kinetic style and raw emotion.
An old-fashioned, tony chamber piece on the surface, the film has surprises below.
The absurdity, the humor, and the implications for today are real when a black cop joins the KKK in the 1970s
Living in displaced limbo by selling schmattes to hausfraus and recalling jokes made to the SS.
A working-class town’s relentless legal battle against the state government’s use of eminent domain, anchored by a powerfully subdued Catherine Keener.
Moments of heartbreaking compassion mired in an exhausting plot.