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With Tony, Matt Johnson brings Bourdain the man, the chef, the bildungsroman to the screen

Tony, a new biopic about the celebrated chef, author, and travel  documentary auteur Anthony Bourdain, Matt Johnson gets almost all of the answers of how to make a good biopic just right. Eschewing the Walk Hard treatment and working from a screenplay from Seattleite Todd Bartels and co-writer Lou Howe, the movie considers a single summer on Cape Cod that shaped the course of Bourdain’s life and career.

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Like its hero, Tuner has perfect pitch

Amid festivals clogged with so many films with “prestige” ambitions, it’s a thrillingly welcome jolt when a really fun movie executes on a clever concept and is impeccably entertaining from top to bottom. And that was exactly the case when the good word of Tuner started rippling through queues at Telluride before putting on the full charm offensive in Toronto a week later. Making the transition from pulse-pounding documentary filmmaking to small-stakes crime romance, Daniel Roher does exactly that with a film that just moves from the jump and never lets up until the closing credits.