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‘Tony’ Review: Dominic Sessa Shines in a Briny, Bittersweet Coming-of-Age Comedy That Just Happens to Be About a Young Anthony Bourdain
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Right now, he’s just a 19-year-old Dominic Sessa with an idea for an idea, some big words he doesn’t fully understand, and a pair of nunchucks tucked away in his bellbottoms.
Quoth Bourdain in the film’s opening title card: “I was — to be frank — a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking.”
In “Tony,” which retains the sincere flavor of street meat despite being factory-processed within an inch of its life, he gets that ass-kicking hard and fast.
Tony’s One Magical Summer begins with the delusional conviction that he’ll be awarded a writing grant for some bullshit he pitched about J.D.
“Tony” struggles for an ending, but it doesn’t really need one; the real fun here lies in paving the way to parts unknown.