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  Review by iana ★★★★½ 5

  my biggest weakness is sincerity so, yeah, i loved HONEY BOY. it’s more than just a cinematic memoir, it’s an act of forgiveness. the whole cast is wonderful but noah jupe displays a wisdom and emotional maturity far beyond his years. i really hope he goes far.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★ 14

  Oh, this was a painful watch.

  This is a movie about the inescapable trauma you can inherit from your parents and how hard it is not to love them in spite of it all. It’s a movie about recognizing your own problems as they happen but still feeling powerless to stop them, feeling like you need them. I recognize so many of Otis’s actions and emotions in people I know, in people I’ve loved. I’ve reckoned with the frustration of loving these people and feeling like they should “just be better,” only to see a pain in their eyes that shows me that they’re trying. More than anything, it’s clear that this movie is a cathartic (if maybe too meta)…

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 11

  "I'm going to make a movie about you."

  Honey Boy is not perfect (update—it very much is perfect). But Honey Boy is loud, and with emotions as honest and raw as these, loud is perfect. Loud enough to give me bruises and stains of mascara on my cheeks, honest enough to dig up old phone calls with my dad, raw enough to leave me in pieces. All I know right now, with the scars Honey Boy left with me, is that Noah Jupe gives my favorite performance of the year, and Shia LaBeouf is just about as emotionally vulnerable as a writer and performer can get. I don't think I could ever get this movie out of my head.
  And I wouldn't dare try.

  "Make me look good, Honey Boy."

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  Review by kársten ★★★★ 19

  Last year it was Ethan Hawke, this year it’s Shia (so far). One of the most powerful performances I’ve seen in awhile. Agh. Yeah. Hm. Wow. Glad I exchanged my Velvet Buzzsaw ticket for this. You people are gonna eat this shit up.

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  Review by maria ★★★★½ 9

  forget dad astra, THIS is the daddy issues movie of 2019 and possibly of ever

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  Review by kársten ★★★★ 22

  So much going on here, I think it's pretty brilliant. Will be elaborating more on the Karstcast episode coming next monday!
  (please don't like this review and make a podcast plug one of the top reviews for this movie please)

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 2

  “i’m going to make a movie about you”
  
  this broke me i am broken

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  Review by Jay ★★★½ 1

  youll be glad to know this coming of age movie features many pool sequences

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  Review by aaron ★★★★½ 7

  this broke me and all I want is to be held by fka twigs

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 2

  an intoxicating mix of free-floating, almost docudrama camerawork, expressionistic lighting and raw nerve performances. who knew that a metatextual psychodrama about the life of shia labeouf would end up a real-deal artistic work of overwhelming empathy and generosity? watching him psychologically access the POV of his abuser not with with judgement or anger but with sensitivity is remarkable. so in tune with its characters rippling pain and messy, sometimes contradictory feelings that the occasional bit of clumsy writing almost works in its favor.

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  Review by kevin abstract ★★★★★ 25

  Perfect

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  Review by Jay ★★★★

  the things lucas hedges can accomplish with a lady bird on his arm