'Tony' & 'The Rivals of Amziah King' | Two Late-Summer Character Dramas
This week we discuss A24's Tony, Matt Johnson's kinetic, unvarnished biographical snapshot of a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) slinging seafood in 1975 Provincetown. In the other corner stands Andrew Patterson's gritty, Southern-gothic indie thriller The Rivals of Amziah King, starring Matthew McConaughey as a beekeeping, folk-rocking town anchor caught in a high-stakes local honey syndicate war.
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