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Beach Rats

2017

Eliza Hittman

Harris Dickinson, Kate Hodge, Erik Potempa, Madeline Weinstein

6.0

1,714

Drama An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"[An] anxious, tactile, profoundly sad study of a young man’s journey of sexual self-discovery and self-betrayal on the luridly faded boardwalks of Brooklyn."	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Dark, dreamy and entirely engrossing."	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"Tale of a young man struggling to come to terms with his own desires avoids cliche and provides a poignant and authentic character study. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Both eerie and exciting (...) with an energetic set of young actors liberated by Hittman’s jittery naturalism, the movie remains a gripping drama."	POS
United States	Sam C. Mac Slant	"'Beach Rats' is most compelling when it puts a self-aware focus on Harris Dickinson's sculpted male figure (...) The film’s narrative world is inchoate, and its characters’ psychologies too tidy (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	David D'Arcy Screendaily	"Atmosphere and chance encounters propel the action in 'Beach Rats' (...) The production design here can feel like studied urban anthropology"	POS

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