Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy refuses to acknowledge the wider socioeconomic causes of America’s drugs problems

Felix Van Groeningenu2019s Beautiful Boy refuses to acknowledge the wider socioeconomic causes of Americau2019s drugs problems

Beautiful Boy review starring Steve Carrell and Timothu00e9e Chalamet

Beautiful Boy review starring Steve Carrell and Timothée Chalamet

David Sheff (Steve Carell) and his son, Nic (Timothée Chalamet) in Beautiful Boy

But Felix Van Groeningen’s film offers up a sanitised depiction of the drugs epidemic, says Kemi Williams.