‘Tony’ Review: Dominic Sessa Gives His First Movie-Star Performance in Matt Johnson’s Tasty Biopic About the Young Anthony Bourdain

In 'Tony,' a new film directed by Matt Johnson, Dominic Sessa gives his first movie-star performance as the young Anthony Bourdain. The story unfolds in Cape Cod during the summer of nineteen seventy-five, following a college student working a temporary beach job. Per Variety's review, the film's strength is in how it resists feeling predetermined, capturing instead the real sense of drifting freedom when a young person has months to fall into unexpected experiences.

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