A Brooklyn teenager spends his days experimenting with drugs and looking online for older men to meet with.
2 January 1966, Berkeley, California, USA
August 27, 2018
Dickinson is breathtaking.
September 15, 2017
Hittman paints with a delicate brush, and gets a strong performance out of newcomer Dickinson, who gives Frankie a soft soul beneath his chiseled physique.
September 08, 2017
Let's call this what it is: a fetishistic After-School Special complete with closeups of trimmed pubes and squeaky-clean sphincters.
September 22, 2017
Hittman demonstrates a sure hand throughout, marking her as a filmmaker whose future work will be hotly anticipated.
September 07, 2017
It's not the feel-good movie of the year, but it's a powerfully rendered reminder that coming of age can be harrowing, and hurtful to others, even in our purportedly more open-minded country.
July 02, 2018
The director never judges her protagonist, even if Frankie seems unshakable in the face of his father's illness. [Full review in Spanish]
February 12, 2018
This is territory far more ambitious than American independent narrative has covered recently, and it marks [Writer-director Eliza] Hittman as a major new voice in our national cinema.
August 20, 2018
Director Eliza Hittman's sublime character study refuses to deal in absolutes or conventional wisdom, opting instead to track her character's every move with a non-judgmental hypnotic gaze.
August 27, 2018
As an exploration of toxic masculinity, a rarely seen side of New York, a teen's uncertainty, Beach Rats works beautifully, up to a point - but you can't take it out of the cultural context in which it appears.
January 16, 2018
This accumulation of contradictions is perfectly embodied by [actor Harris] Dickinson... [Full review in Spanish]
September 22, 2017
Dickinson is perfectly cast and the film's mix of skill gives it a gritty realism that heightens the emotional pitch.
September 07, 2017
This very thinly sliced character study of beautiful if benighted adolescence is more a pre-coming-of-age tale, one that takes us close to, but not through, the transformative acquisition of good judgment.
