Beach Rats's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
If the film is tender, it?s merciless at the same time.
The Hollywood Reporter
Eliza Hittman's second feature is very much the work of a filmmaker with her own distinctive voice, combining moody poetry with textural sensuality to evoke the dangerous recklessness that often accompanies sexual discovery.
Variety
Writer-director Eliza Hittman has a sensitive ear for the way adolescents reveal themselves through evasion: It?s a tension crucial to this anxious, tactile, profoundly sad study of a young man?s journey of sexual self-discovery and self-betrayal
Indiewire
With an energetic set of young actors liberated by Hittman?s jittery naturalism, the movie remains a gripping drama throughout ? a combination that speaks to the director?s emerging aesthetic.
The Guardian
'Beach Rats' is a captivating character study and one that feels vital.
The Wrap
'Beach Rats' has an experiential, almost docudrama aesthetic whose lived-in authenticity is in keeping with that of the film as a whole.
Screen Daily
Fate is a blunt instrument here. Yet you still wind up asking for more depth from the characters for whom Hittman is asking you to feel something.