Note: This review originally ran during Dallas International Film Festival. I’m re-running it now because Beautiful Boy opens in limited release today.

Day Two at Dallas IFF got off to a slower start than I intended, as I ended up spending the afternoon on the phone and buried in my computer working. I worked straight through lunch and dinner, finally emerging from my hotel room in time to make it over to the Angelika for the Centerpiece screening of Beautiful Boy, which premiered at Toronto last year and is being released by Anchor Bay in NY and LA sometime soon.
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