The Beach Bum's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
The hedonism on display is very much of a piece with 'Trash Humpers' and 'Spring Breakers', but in a surprising change of pace for Korine, the film is more at ease with itself, and more emotional than either of those two provocative efforts.
The Guardian
Moondog becomes a metaphor for the human condition, where we are painfully aware of the horrors of life and our own mortality, yet persevere to find joy anyway.
The A.V. Club
'The Beach Bum', by turn, seems to exist in the hazy headspace of its protagonist (...). But there?s a bummer relevance lurking in his fantasy of a rich idiot who does whatever he wants and faces no consequences for his actions.
Indiewire
'The Beach Bum' maintains the anarchic sensibility that has defined Korine since he made a name for himself more than 20 years ago. Benoît Debie?s cinematography is as vivid and freewheeling as it was on 'Spring Breakers' and 'Enter the Void'.
The Hollywood Reporter
As pungent, and ephemeral, as the weed smoke that wafts through its garishly gorgeous candy-colored frames, the latest - and lightest - offering from indie enfant terrible Harmony Korine won?t be for everyone.
Screen Daily
What might make 'The Beach Bum' an ordeal for some audiences will be precisely what other viewers love. Korine?s allegiance to his uncompromising eccentrics is an act of provocation, but it?s orchestrated with sincere affection.
Entertainment Weekly
It was fun while it lasted. Still, it might be time to start wondering if the "McConaissance" is finally over.
New York Post
What?s especially awkward is that Korine (...) films 'The Beach Bum' quite beautifully, implying he thinks this crap has some artistic merit. It doesn?t.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote