Bones and All

The film is a different, provocative way to consider an all-encompassing, all-consuming love.

As the young lovers, Chalamet and Russell do their best with the uncompelling material.

Dreamily shot, it’s all so achingly hip it hurts. But after two hours and 10 minutes of slow-burn meandering, I was hungry for more meat on these bones.

A love story about two pretty young cannibals won’t strike everyone as an appetizing dish. But you won’t be able to take your eyes off Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as they try to reconcile romance with killer impulses on a road trip through hell.

This Romeo & Juliet about cannibals is creepy and seductive, fluid, gorgeously shot and gracefully acted.

Even with the gore and the gorgeous visuals that typically accompany a Guadagnino project, Bones and All too often feels frustratingly tame.

This is virtuoso filmmaking, but inevitably it leaves a very strange aftertaste.

Bones and All is an exceptional victory of cinema and is destined to become an instant coming-of-age classic.

Combining tones and artistic choices that have no right to be together, yet dazzle in spite of this, Guadagnino has created something harrowing and heart-wrenching, but also spellbindingly gorgeous.

Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino stays true to the themes of Camille DeAngelis’ book of the same name — and makes a convincing case to extend your love and sympathy to two forlorn teenagers stuck in a rickety car on the roads of ‘80s America.