Beach Rats

Dickinson is superb at tracing that veiled anguish, and Hittman--who wrote and directed the 2013 film It Felt Like Love--is a discreet and sympathetic guide to his fractured world.

2797d ago

The back-and-forths of the character’s decisions feel real, and Mr. Dickinson’s laconic blankness (you would never guess the actor was British) helps to give the character’s existential crisis a charge. Ms. Hittman is also assured enough to know it can’t be easily resolved.

2797d ago

British newcomer Harris Dickinson makes a stunning impression in Eliza Hittman's beautifully rendered study of repressed sexuality in un-hip Brooklyn.

2797d ago

"Beach Rats," writer/director Eliza Hittman's second feature, has a plot, sort of, but the plot isn't really "the thing" here.

2797d ago

With the film’s most intense sequences usually captured at night — in the dark of Frank’s basement or on the moon-lit, desolate beaches of Brooklyn — Beach Rats often evokes the shadowy terror of Bastards, from the aforementioned Denis.

2797d ago

Broody tale of a young man struggling to come to terms with his own desires avoids cliche and provides a poignant and authentic character study.

2797d ago

Eliza Hittman’s coming-of-age story follows a young man’s sexual maturation in south Brooklyn.

2797d ago

Sundance 2017: Eliza Hittman’s follow-up to “It Felt Like Love” establishes her an accomplished auteur of adolescent angst.

2797d ago

Beach Rats is most compelling when it puts a self-aware focus on Harris Dickinson's sculpted male figure.

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