Honey Boy.
Best movie I’ve seen all year by a pretty wide margin. For those who don’t know, it’s a movie based on Shia LaBeoufs upbringing as a childhood actor. When I first heard about the movie, my initial thought was that it was a pretty egotistical move to make a movie about ones self. However, in no way does Shia attempt to glorify his past, in fact, just the opposite. It centers around the trauma he endured at the hands of his narcissistic, indignant, abusive father. The best part about this movie is that Shia himself actually plays the role of his father and gives an absolutely astonishing performance. The movie is tense, funny, heartbreaking, healing, strange, you name it. Alma Harel also did an amazing job directing it, and I’ll pretty much see anything she does from now on, as well as see any Movie Shia writes - even though he says he doesn’t intend on writing any more screen plays, he clearly has an amazing knack for it.
The only 2019 movie that rivals this, to me, is the joker.