Beautiful Boy Oscar Sprint Profile - Netflix + Chill? Na, Chalamet Time + Amazon Prime - Ep 147 - a podcast by MMO

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***This Review of Beautiful Boy has a Spoiler Section***

Intro / What’s an OSP? - Top of the Show

Cast & Crew & Those Who Need No Introduction - 2:35
Production Notes, Premise, Rain Machines & Timee- 4:29
Movie Specs & the Critical Reception Rollercoaster - 9:08
Expectations & A Personal Connection - 18:14
Production Values & Debate Over The Soundtrack - 21:02
The Performances by a Terrific Ensemble - 26:27
Script Thoughts - 30:56
Oscars Lens/Watch or Don’t - 32:54

Spoiler Warning Dance Music - 33:45

Immediate Carryovers
Where are the Sheff’s now? - 35:07
Best Scenes - 37:43
(Layers Upon Layers - 41:03)
(Little Things Build the Authenticity - 44:30)
Worst Scenes - 49:47
(“I Can’t Help Him”: Effective? - 52:02)
(Hauntingly, Necessarily, Evil - 54:04)

Final Thoughts & Grades - 56:31

Outro / Upcoming Programming / Social Media / Words of Wisdom - 57:51


Timothee Chalamet has been nominated at all of the big precursor award shows and with the release of Beautiful Boy on Amazon Prime in advance of all the final voting pushes, he could be poised to dive back into contention for the Oscar. So we thought it the right time for this Oscar Sprint Profile on Beautiful Boy.

We follow our normal OSP format with two reviews for the price of one. There’s a non-spoiler section including rundowns of the cast & crew, production notes, and movie specs before we dive into our reviews of the production values, performances, and script. Then we play some spoiler warning dance music and break down all of the big plot moments in our spoiler section.

This marks our 32nd episode in the Oscar Sprint Profile playlist with a few two parters in there, and then with another 9 movie event reviews, we’re nearing 40 film reviewed in this format on the year (& counting). We’ll continue to cover all of the major contenders as they’re released for public consumption over the next two months leading to and through the red carpet walks. So do click around our back catalog to help you plan your binge watch of Oscar movies and plan that next movie night with us.

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Stay tuned for a lot more OSPs like If Beale Street Could Talk and awards season coverage like our upcoming Golden Globes recap on next Monday’s MMOW. We hope to become one of your go-to podcasts for movie talk, and if you haven’t noticed, we’re doing it year round with tons of fun series & retrospectives thrown in for good measure. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, and Oscar!

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