timmy's coming for that oscar and I will personally attack any old man in a fat suit that tries to stop him this time

amazon studios have recognised my 2 weaknesses
• a focus on a soft father/son relationship
• michael scotts struggle for happiness

Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet: name a more iconic duo to shoulder and raise this film from blandness.

Other than Timmy’s jawline and luscious hair, there’s nothing artistically striking here. It’s poorly edited and the camerawork is void of any life; flashbacks were aplenty and jumbled, vaguely reminiscent of the unfortunate On Chesil Beach; and you can count on a barrage of obnoxiously loud songs almost forcefully telling you what and how to feel. 

But even with all the excess Hollywood ham and cheese, lord, did the actors act. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Steve Carell is a valid dramatic actor but to all the Timothée doubters out there: this is it. This is the one.

If his Elio didn’t convince you, his Nic Sheff will blow you away; what Timothée does here is heartbreaking, transformative, and scarily impressive. It’s awards-worthy. 

Other than the two brilliant leads, Beautiful Boy doesn’t have much else to support it.

just the fact that my baby timothee is going from precocious musical intelligent 17 year old bisexual to meth addict is a lot for me to handle....

Chalamet continues to make a name for himself with a committed, difficult to watch performance that anchors the story’s emotional bedrock. It’s also a film that has its heart in the right place. Everything else, however, is a complete and utter mess. It’s structurally baffling and extremely poorly edited, and much of what it has to say about parenting and addiction is unfortunately subject to needless complications from a storytelling front. The ending is challenging in a heartbreakingly real way, but it can’t salvage all that much when everything beforehand is so weakly constructed.

Grade: C+

I was crying at the trailer then I thought: is this what happened after Michael Scott and Holly Flax moved to Colorado?

My theater pulled some strings and I was able to go to the corporate private screening this morning and oh my god...I’m going to wait to talk about this but my heart was broken. Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell give some, if not the best, performances of the year. 

I have to keep quiet for now.

"Somewhere between harsh truth and slick sentiment lies Beautiful Boy, an adaptation of two complementary memoirs about drug addiction—Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, both from 2008—by father and son writers David and Nic Sheff. Still, director Felix Van Groeningen, who also co-wrote the screenplay, commendably sustains the story’s profound sense of irresolution: abuse-rehab-relapse, abuse-rehab-relapse, abuse-rehab-relapse—an endless cycle of teeth-gritted optimism at best, soul-deadening dashed hopes at worst."
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Now we get into some post-TIFF TIFFing (and occasionally NYFFing). First up, me at Slant Magazine on Beautiful Boy.

www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/beautiful-boy-2018

so what if i've logged this four times and the movie isn't even out yet the point is the new trailer came out and i sobbed in the middle of the library

This is me dad.
Here.
This is who I am

Me: look dad, i forgot who I am when watching this movie

second trailer review: ...he’s coming

“Beautiful Boy” was not so beautiful after all, from its jarring editing to its uneven score that didn’t fit the mood of the scenes. Timothée Chalamet was the film’s only saving grace!

I just finished the source material and I had such high hopes but all these TIFF reviews are depressing me

At least Steve & Timmy are apparently amazing!

Works better if you've read the book, to help anchor your sense of what is going on. But even then, Beautiful Boy suffers from poor editing, flashbacks without any exposition or cues, and a lack of narrative structure. This is more of a vehicle to showcase incredibly emotive and committed performances by Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell (clear front-runners in the upcoming awards season).

The film meanders through the frustration and desperation of managing addiction - a balancing act between hope and despair. The ending is heartbreaking but necessarily so. Beautiful Boy would definitely get a boost in emotional impact with a tighter structure but as it is, it's not overly memorable though it's still worth watching for the performances.

The adjective in this title is redundant/inadequate. Timothée Chalamet’s name and face are already on the poster for God's sake!