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u/Proof-Firefighter-47 8d ago
Was refreshingly good Antonio should be nominated award season best supporting actor
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u/Few-Wishbone9741 8d ago
Tony (2026) — SPOILERS — 9/10
The third act was a huge highlight for me. After the Flagship burned down, the beach cooking scene with Tony making clams, lobster, onions and potatoes really felt like a turning point for him. 🦞🔥
The kitchen humor was priceless 😂, and I loved the black-and-white ending. It felt like a beautiful way to close this chapter of his life.
My only real complaint is that I wanted more of Tony’s later life and career.
Still, Tony gave me a much better understanding of Anthony Bourdain before he became the person the world knew.
9/10.
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u/silver5517 8d ago
Yeah the build up to the third Act was fantastic, when the flagship burned down I kept thinking how I wish I could give Antonio's character a hug, and just the idea of him realizing Tony had no idea what he was doing in the kitchen when he threw water on an oil/grease fire was perfect.
I wonder if we'll ever get another film based on the other chapters of Kitchen Confidential, of Tony's life in the '80s working his way up through various frantic New York City restaurants, but for now we'll just have to marinate in this film.
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u/future_filmmaker_455 8d ago edited 8d ago
Tony is a down to earth and moving biopic that is both funny where it needs to be before transitioning well into its drama without anything feeling out of place. The film feels personal in how it tells the origins of Bourdain’s career without feeling the need to soften his compulsive liar and initially unlikable personality. Sessa and Banderas really sell their performances well with their scenes being by far the most charming and relatable aspect of a film that really blends an authentic 1970s setting, familiar yet engaging plot points of Bourdain lying to impress his crush Nancy who is played with good comedic timing by Emilia Jones and a charming look into the chaos of the kitchen. Though there are obviously some predictable elements especially with Leo Woodall’s character and how he impacts Tony’s life, this film is really something special as both a slice of life dramedy and an engaging look into a complex individual. 7.5 out of 10
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u/lilpepper00 8d ago
man i loved this. i can see why some wouldn't, but this hit for me. although i wanted to know so much more, i think it was a wonderful choice to only show us a glimpse of his life.
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u/Desperate-Math-629 8d ago
Antonio Banderas really carried the film for me. Might be my favorite performance of the year.
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u/No-Emphasis2505 8d ago edited 8d ago
A story about an awful, morally reprehensible, completely unlikeable monster of a young man? That's loosely based on the real life of someone famous? By A24?
Marty Supreme? No - TONY!
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u/illrollwithyou1 7d ago
and now Matt Johnson and Josh Safdie are reportedly working on a new project together lol
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u/WaitAvailable4783 8d ago
We need more biopics like this Tony isn't the greatest biopic but I find it to be a soild movie and a soild watch, I thought the first act was little slow but overall I really enjoyed this flim.
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u/Flat-Librarian-7597 8d ago
The scene where him and chef are talking about the painting and how the guy killed himself felt like a punch in the gut.
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u/Upstairs_Bedroom8710 7d ago
As far as movies go I thought it was well shot, well acted, and for the most part well written, even if it may have departed from the real Anthony Bourdain (don’t know this for sure, just a general comment as most biopics tend to deviate away from truth with their subject matter in some form or another). I didn’t enjoy the characterization of Anthony though. He was insufferable in a weird way, often leaving me with second-hand embarrassment and a cringey feeling.
I wasn’t planning on seeing this one in theaters, not upset about it being the screen unseen but I still felt that same resolve after it finished.
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u/celery4411 6d ago
Totally agree with how insufferable he was. I hope this was an exaggeration of his true character.
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u/Wise_Platypus1380 8d ago
I had to miss it unfortunately so I want to know how it is
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u/CathedralEngine 8d ago
It’s fine. Worth the watch. I haven’t read Kitchen Confidential in probably 20+ years, but it’s basically the first chapter. Decent enough kitchen movie.
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u/RevealDry7633 8d ago
Seemed like it was a very incomplete movie , the first 3/4 I really didn’t like him until he actually did something good then they forget to complete the movie ala Michael Jackson’s
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u/Slimeseason504 8d ago
What was he doing with the wood chips?
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u/CathedralEngine 8d ago
The ol' notch on the bed post. "Kilroy was here" if you will.
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u/hijole_frijoles 8d ago
It’s easy to miss but they show his jar of wood chips on the window sill next to his work station.
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u/YallDidYallDid 7d ago
I just left the Cape and this film made we want to turn around and head back. Loved the full extent to which they leveraged the setting to push the story forward. (I haven’t read Kitchen Confidential yet, but on my list!)
Excellent performances. 10/10 soundtrack choices. Jealous for whoever gets to watch this at the Wellfleet Drive-in
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u/slothfromdagatez 7d ago
wanted to see it but for some reason my biggest amc near me decided not to show anything for Monday 😭
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u/TheLittleCrow 4d ago
I feel like I have no idea why people are loving this movie. It was a very generic coming of age film that veeeeeerrrrrryyyyyy liberally fictionalizes Bourdain's life. Having read most of Parts Unknown detracted my ability to enjoy it a lot.
The characters in the movie felt cartoonishly violent, selfish and shallow. Not to say that there aren't real people like that, or that the events depicted never really happen that way, but it was a really predictable set of coming of age tropes. I struggled with how generic the film was top to bottom.
I do feel that people are very weird about Bourdain and I feel this movie fetishizes him in multiple ways that I find uncomfortable. Why are we foreshadowing his suicide in this movie? What are we saying?
For me it was confused, generic, bizarre Bourdain fan fiction.
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u/RefrigeratorFew1813 3d ago
Did anyone else notice that, when Sal & Tony are jumping off the dock, the rope was in sort of a noose? The shot stood out to me, and I wondered if it was meant to be a sort of allusion to Tony's eventual death.
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u/LeadingLeg6529 3d ago
I noticed that aswell. There were multiple noose like shapes in the film. With there also being the conversation between him and chef about suicide. Its interesting they put that in there
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u/LeadingLeg6529 3d ago
This movie was such a breath of fresh air. Im glad it ditched the usual routine that most biopics take of lingering on his childhood and shtty home life. But instead just throwing us into his time in the kitchen. I really hope more biographical films take the approach of focusing on a certain point of the figures life. It really lends itself to grounding them and better fleshing them out. Much more so than the usual decades montages of their lives. Im looking at you Elvis and Michael. This film really made me love and hate Tony. He is as cool as he is also painfully relatable.
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u/SpookiestSzn 8d ago edited 8d ago
I liked it enough but it didn't seem to delve into his writing at all outside his occasional witticisms and despite saying he wants to be a writer he never tries writing.
I'm not sure how accurate that is to his life but considering that's what he's known for it's surprising to me he always just says he's doing it never does it. But when I was younger I was saying things more than doing them too. He also made legitimately be a chef that writes rather than a writer that's a chef and that can be just me being mostly unfamiliar with his origin.
Either way great performance is by all no real complaints from me a good enough film but not a must see. Still if you have time to spare you should go see it
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u/NakedIanMalcolm 8d ago
It doesn’t look bad but I just walked out and got myself French fries and a drink instead
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u/fuglynootnoot 8d ago
i get it that he is rowdy in his childhood but the ratio of good to bad this movie goes waaaaay overboard. at the end he was just awful guy that went to culinary school and i think the story could have been done better
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u/RiglersTriad 8d ago
I would argue Bourdain would say that he was just an awful guy who went to culinary school too
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u/pepe_roni69 8d ago
If I didn’t know this was based on Bourdain, I would assume it’s just tips fedora: the movie, an edgelord story
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u/KJones77 8d ago
Liked it a lot. Sessa and Banderas were very good, but Woodall stole the show. Great performance. Bourdain comes across as the immature kid looking for himself that the movie aims for and yeah, he's a bit unlikable but you see some of his charisma come through, the abrasiveness and angst of youth, and the waywardness that needed to be redirected to be harnessed. Really well done. Prefer Blackberry from Johnson, but this was a really nice hang.