the film..is a grim endurance test that's undeniably flawed but in doggedly aiming to portray this unbearable pain with rare authenticity, it has a raw, haunting power
made by the Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen, from a script by Luke Davies, "Beautiful Boy" is scrupulous and tenderly wounding --a drama that seizes and holds you. It's a compelling movie...
"Beautiful Boy," a painfully sincere picture that does its very best to dodge the conventions of the rehab movie; Chalamet finds the emotional core of this character, and hangs onto it for dear life
by Benjamin Lee [The Guardian ]
