Tony, loosely based on the early chapters of Anthony Bourdain’s bestselling 2000 memoir Kitchen Confidential, portrays one formative summer in the life of the 19-year-old celebrity-chef-to-be. Tony’s depression, dissatisfaction, and restlessness don’t seem to spring from any direct cause we’re shown in the movie. AdvertisementRelated From Slate The Anthony Bourdain Doc Is No Hagiography Read MoreThe real-life Bourdain had at least marginally better planning skills than his cinematic double. It’s the chemistry between Banderas and Sessa that makes this gentle, low-stakes story—a summer movie in which, for a refreshing change, no one is murdered or menaced by a supernatural threat—simmer along like a cauldron of chowder. Even if Tony were not a biopic at all, but simply the fictional story of one screwed-up kid’s transformative summer working in a restaurant kitchen, it would be a movie worth watching.