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Honey Boy
15 (UNITED KINGDOM)
2020
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Honey Boy
Positive Reviews
170
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
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4.5
It is an understatement to say that LaBeouf gives the performance of his career.
Den Of Geek
3.5
If Honeys arc feels stamped in an certain kind of indie template, it still builds a sneaky kind of emotional capital.
EW
4.4
Honey Boy adds to the impression that LaBeouf is moving into very interesting territory as an actor, territory uniquely his own.
Rogerebert
3.2
Its best appreciated less as movie than cinematic confessional, a quest for catharsis in the only substantial medium within his grasp.
Indie Wire
3.5
While it takes a few too many cues from similar coming of age tales, Honey Boy offers audiences an egoless dissection of Shia LaBeoufs side of his own ..
We Got This Covered
4.0
Weaving together two separate timelines, filmmaker Alma Harel (of the arty documentaries Bombay Beach and LoveTrue) gives LaBeoufs vulnerable exercise ..
Time Out
4.0
Written by Shia LaBeouf, and based on his own early life, this open sore autobiography feels like the missing piece in the puzzle of this frequently b ..
The Guardian
4.0
This looks on paper like a self aggrandising vanity project, but it is very well directed and performed.
The Guardian
3.0
The director Alma Harel does play with time and reality throughout but there remains a genuine heart to LaBeoufs script, the clear eyed work of a man ..
The Guardian
3.8
In Alma Harels film, Shia LaBeoufs plays an avatar of his father as an expressionistic act of self therapy.
3.8
In this intense, unsettling, modestly triumphant portrait of the artist as a young man, LaBeouf shows us not only how he grew up, but what it cost him ..
3.0
What results is a harrowing, violent, emotional film in which LaBeouf is clearly (and admirably) baring his soul.
Collider
4.5
Indeed, the film doesnt conclude with a revelation or even a sense of closure.
Collider
0.5
project that sounds like it should be an act of celebrity indulgence but that instead turns out to be one of startling poignancy.
Vulture
4.5
In many ways resembles other films about chaotic childhoods, alcoholism, and abuse. It distinguishes itself in the manner it weaves the concerns of an ..
The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
A sensitive, sincere portrait of a child actors dysfunctional upbringing and its devastating fallout.
The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
delivers a captivating, haunting, and brutally honest exploration of a life we think we know makes it unmissable.
1.5
One could watch Honey Boy musing that it must be nice to have someone finance a movie of your 12 step qualification. That assessment is actually too g ..
The New York Times
4.0
Hedges, Jupe, and LaBeouf are electric to watch and Harel creates a visually engaging world that perfectly captures the childlike confusion and nervy ..
IGN
4.5
Buoyed by sensitive and ferocious ensemble turns, Honey Boy is a cinematic salve for a tortured soul, in many regards a powerful vehicle for its star ..
4.0
Undoubtedly, this is Shia LaBeoufs greatest hour, period, because he controls his story and how its told. Harel makes sure the vision stays coherent, ..
The Young Folks
4.0
Somewhere between a primal scream, a self acceptance and even a forgiveness of sorts, this is an utterly unique bit of autobiography.
4.0
Honey Boy succeeds because Shia LeBeouf manages to tell an autobiographical story with gut wrenching honesty.
Cinema Blend
4.5
A major comeback for Shia LeBeouf in this auto biographical drama.
JoBlo
4.4
LaBeoufs script crackles with penetrating dialogue. His acting LaBeouf portrays a version of his own father might be the finest of his career.
The Globe And Mail
2.8
A film that pulsates with vibrancy, though perhaps not always with truth....Despite its many virtues, therefore, Honey Boy merits only a mixed respons ..
One Guys Opinion
5.0
One of the years best films...You will never look at a childs performance in a film or TV show the same way after this.
Rogers Movie Nation
4.5
A sensitive portrait of generational trauma, PTSD, and the pained and revelatory process of reflecting on the abusive relationships that inform who we ..
Tv Guide
4.4
Director Harel gives all this a tender touch, with sequences verging on the dreamlike... Honey Boy is a great act of empathy, and a catharsis.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.5
LaBeouf, sporting a balding pate mullet, walks a tightrope as his fictionalized father, the actor never turning us against the man despite his often h ..
4.5
It has a lightness of touch and an honesty of tone in it. Honestly its quite impressive...very well directed.
You Tube
4.0
Playing out mainly in the skid row motel in Los Angeles where father and son live, Alma Harels dreamlike film leavens the grimness with humanity and h ..
The Times
3.8
The acting by LaBeouf, Hedges and Jupe, is stellar, while director Alma Harel does a great job weaving this complex, time hopping story together. This ..
Lariat
4.0
In a dazzling high wire act as actor and screenwriter, LaBeouf lets loose on his own life as a child star and his relationship with his loose cannon d ..
Rolling Stone
4.0
LaBeoufs work is astonishing, both writing with such openness and playing James in a sympathetic way that never justifies his considerable flaws.
Shadows On The Wall
4.5
Honey Boy is a thoughtful, frequently absorbing drama, substantial not just for LaBeouf, but for its exploration of how trauma shapes who we are.
Decider
4.5
Theres a specificity to the proceedings, unfurling like a film written by someone whos spent three decades trying better to understand his father and, ..
The Wrap
5.0
Youll never look at Shia LaBeouf the same way after seeing Honey Boy, the affecting movie thats inspired by his own life.
New York Post
4.5
Either as public relations or as therapy, it looks like a dodge. But as art, Honey Boy is kind of brilliant.
Az Central
4.0
A movie that could easily have crashed and burned. That it does not has something to do with the shared intensity of character and performance. All th ..
Smh
4.5
Harel... continues the use of surreal imagery that made her documentaries so striking and emotionally resonant.
Npr
4.5
LaBeouf is so revelatory as both writer and actor that the film defies cynicism about its second purpose as celebrity image management. It just makes ..
Slate
3.0
Memorable imagery and nuanced performances sweeten a sometimes bitter, ultimately unrepentant look at the beginnings of a tangled and infamous life.
Flim List
4.5
Its on screen healing. You feel LaBeouf putting his soul into every word he wrote and every line he delivers.
Film Inquiry
3.5
Starkly sad and sensitive, this is Shia LeBeoufs memory drama in which he plays a fictionalized version of his own father.
Susang Ranger
1.3
I dont know about you, but this is not what I go to the movies for. Color it despicable.
Observer
4.0
For Shia LaBeouf its medicine, to us its a shell shocking portrait of harrowing adolescence grappling with empathy for the abusers and the abused that ..
Flickering Myth
4.0
A unique vessel through which writer star Shia LaBeouf confronts and perhaps partially exorcises his personal demons.
Flickering Myth
4.0
Every moment of the movie feels like an artist in search of a desperately craved and needed catharsis.
Flim Threet
4.5
LaBeouf plays James with a psychodramatic intensity thats nonetheless methodical.
New Yorker
4.5
Even within the context of this upbringing as horror show, LaBeouf locates crystalline reflections of the better man his father might have been.
Time
3.2
This earnest endeavor does wonders to enact sympathy and overturn any negative public perception of Shia LaBeoufs outbursts, even if it can feel more ..
The Film Stage
3.8
The direction by the Israeli filmmaker Alma Harel goes a long way to making Honey Boy watchable, bearable, relatable. Poetic, even.
Boston Globe
4.5
Shias intense movie memoir makes every other daddy issues story feel like snorting baby powder by comparison. And Lucas Hedgess Labeouf impression is ..
Uproxx
3.0
It works as therapy. It works as an acting showcase. But the dips and flips we demand from narrative art are missing throughout.
The Irish Times
4.5
Films are rarely so purely autobiographical as Honey Boy...It can be hard to watch when James is at his worst, but the power behind the performance is ..
Birth Movies Death
3.8
Thanks to Harels assertively meditative direction and LaBeoufs profound, emotionally modulated script Honey Boy is a dramatic tour de force.
Movie Freak
3.8
Director Alma Harel brings this cherry bomb to the screen with a delicate touch that is handled with the sort of compassion that was clearly lacking i ..
Detroit News
4.4
With sensitive, observant direction from Alma Harel, Honey Boy is a harrowing personal story that has universal relevance. It might also be redemption ..
Aisle Seat
4.0
A stunning career defining performance from Shia LaBeouf, Honey Boy is a difficult watch but a transformative film.
Hey U Guys
3.8
A spectacular narrative debut for noted documentary filmmaker Alma Harel.
The Play List
4.4
Im not sure Im compelled by the case its trying to make, particularly as this story has more to tell, but theres a power to its piquant grace and love ..
Film Freak Central
4.5
Honey Boy extends the same hand to everyone who encounters it and recognizes everyones need for rehabilitation in some sense and asks us tenderly to j ..
Film School Rejects
4.0
...well acted, and features a lot of very credible and naturalistic dialogue. Its distressing in places, and predominantly bleak and sad.
Film Ink
3.0
Honey Boy is imperfect and messy, but few can doubt LaBeoufs commitment to self expos, or Harels hazy evocation of the subjective past.
Cine Vue
4.0
Honey Boy is a moving portrait of fatherhood, abuse, and redemption that is anchored by a superb turn from Shia LaBeouf as his own father, laying his ..
Mirror
4.4
The only thing that comes through every pore of this films being is absolute raw and brutal honesty...One of the best movies of the year.
You Tube
3.5
LaBeouf wrote the screenplay and making her feature debut director Alma Harel combines gritty verit with surreal scenes on movie sets and sly observat ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
4.5
Its directed with tenderness, anger and nostalgia by director Alma Harel.
Abc
4.5
Coming from a star often labelled as surly and inscrutable, the film is a surprisingly heartfelt enterprise, rendered with the kind of knowing, patien ..
Abc
2.8
Instead of being a journey of self reflection and awakening, the movie is a jumble of mixed messages about love and surviving traumatic relationships.
Cleve Land
4.0
As actor, scriptwriter and self portraitist, LaBeouf sets his ducks in a row and takes perfect aim.
Ft
4.4
There are few movies that feel as honest, and as genuinely brave, as this one.
Ar Kansas Online
4.5
Alma Harels direction is familiar for recent indie fare, anyway but sensitive.
Vanity Fair
3.0
With a dash of humility and maturity, LaBeouf manages to work it through.
The Arts Desk
4.0
LaBeouf delivers more than he has for years, but this could be an otherwise staid recovery story were it not for Jupes performance.
The Sun
4.5
The film is not a product of vanity, though, or of self helping self absorption that shuts others out. It is a powerful, tough minded entertainment th ..
Wsj
4.0
Rather than feeling like a cloying act of narcissism, Shia LaBeoufs autobiographical tale is layered and authentic.
The Filmy Ap
3.8
LeBeouf is the patient, the film is his couch and we are his shrinks, absorbing whats pouring from his tattered heart, trying to make sense of it and ..
Patriot Ledger
4.5
This film is full of such genuine tragedy that it cant be so simply overlooked, and I hope its the start of a new chapter for Shia LaBeouf as an artis ..
Film
4.5
Despite that, its hard to ignore the realities of LaBeoufs fathers crimes, especially in a film thats betting on its honesty as a huge selling point.
Ign
3.5
Hopefully, people will seeHoney Boyas a continuation of LaBeoufs evolution into the serious actor he always had the potential to be.
Punch Drunk Critics
4.0
When it comes to cinema as therapy, LeBeouf put his time (and ours) to superb use here.
Sandiego Reader
3.5
This is a story by Shia LeBeouf, and as a work of dramatic therapy, its quite engaging.
We Live Entertainment
4.5
Shia gives us a heart wrenching tale ripe with comedy, passion, and vulnerability.
We Live Entertainment
5.0
Honey Boy is a father son story like every and no other, fuelled by performances so inherently medicinal and mayhemic in nature that it is impossible ..
Film Companion
3.2
LaBeouf scores as a father whose love for his son is covered up by the mans foul temper.
Shockya
4.0
Shia LaBeouf emerges triumphant writing and starring in film inspired by his own complex life.
Dead Line
4.5
Harel and Braier bring a gnarly shimmer to poolside dreams and roadside pipe dreams. Along with LaBeouf, they bequeath the roughest characters with th ..
Film Comment
3.5
Shia has taken on this difficult and painful role of his childhood abuser father, and his true performance gives the story gravitas.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
5.0
Raw, uncompromising, and yet wholly non judgemental, Honey Boy is a cinematic memoir for the ages.
One Room With A View
4.0
LaBeouf doesnt just write the script for the film but he also gives himself a role that leads to the performance of his life.
Solzy At The Movies
4.4
Honey Boy rises above expectations and delivers a moving and magical experience.
Awards Circuit
4.0
Honey Boy, despite its heavy subject, is a deeply empathetic and generous drama that strikes at the heart of complex parent child relationships and in ..
Bitly
4.5
Honey Boy could collapse under its own meta weight if it was just a therapeutic exercise, a true indulgence on LaBeoufs part. But the actor is a story ..
Polygon
4.5
While hes the writer and co star, LaBeouf didnt direct Honey Boy. That credit goes to Alma Harel, an experimental documentarian bringing her sense of ..
Cbr
4.5
LaBeoufs renown is split into two distinct camps: the talent and the troubles. The cleverness of Honey Boy lies in its bridging of these two elements, ..
The Daily Beast
3.5
It has the lacerating truth of close observation, depicting the way that two humans work in the kind of fine detail that comes from an unpleasant surp ..
Alternate Ending
3.8
HONEY BOY is a film thats giving men a chance to work through their emotions from the inside out. Its not about whats existing on the exterior, but ho ..
Fresh Fiction
4.5
In Alma Harels film, Shia LeBeouf mines his own life and reminds us how gifted an actor he is.
New Republic
4.5
The vulnerability, and indeed, the sincerity on display in LaBeoufs screenplay is genuinely moving.
Bfi
4.4
...a very personal and painful statement from LaBeouf and its to Harels credit that she gives it some context and focus, as well as extracting wonderf ..
The Australian
5.0
To face your demons is a difficult feat but Alma Harels Honey Boy allows Shia LaBeouf to do so with his phenomenal script and incredible performance.
Rendy Reviews
5.0
Honey Boy, marking LaBeoufs screenwriting debut, works in ways that will break your heart and, for the more introspective among us, leave you consider ..
Third Coast Review
4.5
Honey Boy is a deeply personal and painfully honest form of therapy for its creator, Shia LeBeouf, and is a phenomenal film because of it.
Cultured Vultures
4.0
That performance gains power from LaBeoufs willingness to play the worst weakness of his kin while also refracting, in his screenplay, the wide eyed g ..
New City Film
3.8
Honey Boy is more than LaBeoufs bounce back film. Its an explanation. Its part of his 12 step process. Its a cathartic release of anger.
Datebook Sfchronicle
4.4
The bad outweighs the good here, but perhaps thanks to LaBeoufs performance, or the writing, you cant help but grasp at any string of hope dangled lik ..
Ap News
4.5
Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) plays the younger Otis, and he is the single best reason to seek out Honey Boy.
Mash Able
3.8
Honey Boy is a testament to the gifts of this artist, and to his continuing journey to good health and better choices.
Tulsa World
4.4
LaBeoufs performance as his own father is nothing short of monumental; hes a terrifying force in the way he dominates his sons life, but also deeply, ..
Am Ny
1.5
Honey Boy with its winks at Transformers and sitcom conventions knows why were watching and maybe thats enough.
Thril List
1.5
Refreshingly, Honey Boy avoids moralizing. Neither Labeoufs screenplay nor Harels direction feign shock at James parenting, which includes, for instan ..
Battleship Pretension
4.4
Honey Boy is a triumph for all involved, starting with a screenplay that mightve been overly indulgent, but in which LaBeouf instead offers restraint.
Cambridge Day
2.8
Shia LaBeouf and Noah Jupe have great chemistry in the autobiographical drama Honey Boy, but it didnt resonant or connect with me on the level I wante ..
The Only Critic
1.5
HONEY BOY has all the earmarks acting, writing, directing to be a critics darling. But it lacks real entertainment value for the average moviegoer.
Kaplan Vs Kaplan
1.5
At 33, LaBeouf has come a long way... But as a writer, he wallows.
Metro Active
3.8
Harel creates a woozy, sunbaked style for the material. She has a talent for finding the rhythm of intense exchanges between characters and there are ..
Heral
4.5
A fascinating therapeutic experiment, in which Shia LaBeouf gives his demons familiar form, while finding ways to forgive them.
Firstpost
4.4
Art as expiation of sin can be harrowing to behold, but Harel and her cast make it work.
Film Festival Today
2.8
The film is not for everyone and lacks the excitement or drama that one would expect from a film of this subject. I found myself empathizing with Shia ..
Mac Guff
4.5
This is LaBeoufs therapeutic attempt at healing his tumultuous father son relationship. It is not an easy watch, but the deeply felt performances and ..
Battle Royale With Cheese
4.0
Honey Boys quiet humour is balanced with efficient dramatic stakes so that the toughest moments of family drama become highly gripping.
Impulse Gamer
4.5
Conveying true introspection less than public apologia, Honey Boy offers LaBeouf a chance to pivot, adjusting performance of his own brand.
Metro Times
4.5
A heartbreaking, soul cleansing film that delivers a knock out emotional blow.
Screen Zealots
1.5
For all its individualism, theres a consciousness just a bit too divorced from itself to land.
The Spool
4.4
Shia LaBeouf digs deep to make Honey Boy an impressive and cathartic cinematic experience. This is one of the years biggest and most moving surprises.
Hollywood News
4.5
As the boy Otis, Noah Jupe gives an extraordinarily mature performance, his eyes communicating wells of sadness and pain.
Kdhx
4.5
Shia LaBeouf ... stars as a fictionalized version of his own father in a cathartic exercise thats empathetic to both himself and his dad and poignant.
L.A. Biz
4.4
To watch director Alma Harels drama Honey Boy is to witness an act of personal redemption for its star and screenwriter, Shia LaBeouf.
Movie Cricket
4.0
It surprises precisely because of its universal outlook with which it deals with the relationship between father and teenage son.
Enfil Me
4.0
Are we watching LaBeouf work through his own issues with this remarkable act of empathy, or is this, too, just an act Dont expect an answer.
Maddwolf
4.0
may cause some to approach it with caution, and not unreasonably, but Id suggest throwing caution to the wind. This, you gotta see.
Student Edge
2.5
If Honey Boy felt like a personal project for the actor, it feels like total vanity for the viewer.
Worldo Free L
3.8
Honey Boy an example of the therapy art offers within the confines of the screen.
812 Film Reviews
3.8
Drawing from traumatic personal experience, Honey Boy serves as both a creators exercise in forgiveness and self healing and a meta cinematic experien ..
Silver Screen Riot
4.5
This isnt just Shia LaBeouf placing blame for his adult struggles at his fathers feet. Instead of forgiveness or blame, LaBeoufs script provides under ..
Jaredmobarak
4.5
The film feels equally like a beginning and ending of this story between Shia and his father. The ghosts of our pasts are always with us, especially w ..
4.0
When youve got an actress this good you dont need to hit us over the head with butterfly symbolism.
Metro News
5.0
Shia LaBeoufs semi autobiographical film is superb as the actor bares his soul. One of the best films of 2019.
Victoria Advocate
4.0
The most moving aspect of the movie is without a doubt seeing Shia LaBeouf play the role of his father: pure catharsis, empathy, and humility.
Konexión
4.5
Honey Boy is an utterly harrowing and moving story about how the parents were given are, for better or for worse, a part of us...
Vanyaland
4.0
Some may chuckle and solely think of the kid who took pies to the face and screamed his head off around robots, but this cinematic account makes you w ..
Denton Record-Chronicle
4.5
A deeply personal exploration into masculinity, addiction and the price of childhood fame Honey Boy is a must see.
The Digital Fix
3.8
For a project that easily could have been indulgent, were treated to a moving and bold film thats deeply emotional. Harel gets a terrific performance ..
High Def Digest
1.5
LaBeouf showed amazing restraint in letting someone else direct it, and the result is an interesting looking, but sometimes hard to watch, coming of a ..
Lagniappe Mobile
4.5
Even though LaBeoufs script is rightly focused on an introspection, Harels direction forces us to find ourselves in the film, however we can.
Nashville Scene
3.0
Like therapy, Honey Boy is more of an exploration. LeBeouf is using the movie to understand what he went through.
Smash Cut Reviews
4.5
The film is Shia LaBeoufs commendable attempt to exorcize his personal demons on the big screen.
Cocalecas
4.5
It takes a certain level of maturity to be able to look at the person who had a hand in messing you up and think of them in a sympathetic way and then ..
Cosmopolitan
4.0
Honey Boy is terribly sad but a beautiful film. And one that is worthy of the fine reviews it has received, as well as serious awards consideration.
Womens Voices For Change
4.5
Its an examination, a slice of life. It gets in, gets out, and it doesnt take a traditional approach to this story...very creative, and I liked that.
Double Toasted
4.5
Honey Boy avoids the trappings of kitchen sink realism by blending a handheld documentary style with moments of surrealism
Seventh Row
4.4
Poetic, emotional and cathartic, Honey Boy takes us through an intimate and difficult journey to reconcile past and present. Shia LaBeoufs performance ..
4.0
The film is told in a circular way, flashing back and forth between adult Otis and young Otis navigating his way through prematurely adult complicatio ..
Dogandwolf
4.5
I cant imagine what sort of emotional reckoning, not to mention courage and risk, was involved for LeBeouf to bare his soul and his familys past with ..
Eugene Weekly
4.0
Shia LaBeouf patently has no illusions about the hand he was dealt.
3.5
Noah Rupe, the young actor who has been so good in such films as A Quiet Place, Wonder, and the current Ford v Ferrari, remains such a force of nature ..
Jmuvies Blog Spot
4.5
The payoffs that arise via LaBeouf exorcising his demons are plentiful for game viewers and, hopefully, the screenwriter/co star/subject himself.
Asheville Movies
4.5
...commitment to the awful truth of his upbringing is part of what makes Honey Boy so impressive.
The Pop Break
4.5
Bravo to LeBeouf being brave enough to dig deep both in his acting and his writing while inviting the public to participate in his healing process.
Awfj
1.5
As cathartic as it must have been for the actor to revisit and dramatize his trauma, the brutal honesty and occasional humor of exposing his own and h ..
Awfj
3.0
It takes a lifetime to manufacture a persons psyche and sometimes, a lifetime to disassemble and reassemble that same person. The work has begun for a ..
Phantom Tollbooth
3.8
Honey Boy is a moving experience to watch as Shia LeBeouf finds catharsis by putting his own brutal past on the screen.
Texas Art & Film
3.8
Shia LaBeoufs autobiographical Honey Boy, despite some narrative creases, ends up a memorable if raw confessional about growing up with alcoholism and ..
4.5
A revealing expose on Labeouf and a touching drama that any family can relate to, in show business or not.
Nerd Report
3.8
...as a peak inside the life and mind of an artist, it doesnt really get much more original and personal than this.
The Filtered Lens
4.5
Is quite remarkable in its softness, in its emotion, and in heartfelt manner in showing his dad the type of love he deserved when he needed it the mos ..
This is Film
3.5
Hopefully making this film and sharing his story with the world will help Shia LaBeouf. Will exorcise the demons he has fought most of his life. The t ..
Orcasound
4.0
Written by LeBeouf and directed by documentary filmmaker Alma Harel, Honey Boy is catharsis as compelling character study.
Houston Chronicle
3.5
Honey Boy is the feature debut of director Alma Harel, a veteran of music videos and documentaries. She brings to the proceedings an ultra realistic, ..
4.5
...the fact each of Hedges and Jupe flow into each other neatly with attention to detail in tone and body language speaks to the quality of both the p ..
4.5
Shia LaBeoufs brilliant Honey Boy hits in the gut with humor, pathos and poignancy.
Showbiz 411
4.5
A moving exploration of art, trauma and the connection between the two.
Rochester City Newspaper
1.5
The direction by Alma Harel is fluid but even with a short ish running time (1 hour 34 minutes), Honey Boy is exhausting to watch.
Malibu Times
4.5
And, in an astonishing act of upending the very table upon which art sits imitating life, has cast himself as his own emotionally cruel, psychological ..
Niagara Gazette
3.5
When the credits rolled, I found myself waiting to see who played Otiss father, somehow convinced that LaBeouf had played himself; the film is that co ..
Film Mafia
3.2
Honey Boy is more in the telling of its personal wounds than what it unfolds or how it resolves.
Film Mixtape
4.0
Honey Boy is one of the precious few that feels like an act of grace itself. Its one of the most humbling film experiences of the year.
Nate Hood Reviews
4.5
Honey Boy is a messy triumph for screenwriter LaBeouf and director Harel.
MTR Network
4.8
Shia LaBeouf is back! This introspective and meta self reflection is a masterpiece.
4.5
Where LaBeoufs deeply personal story provides the framework, Alma Harels direction ensures the film has a classic, empathic quality that rises above s ..
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