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Dominic Sessa was great in The Holdovers, so seeing him play a young and stroppy Anthony Bourdain is a joy. He was born for roles like this. The film follows a 19-year-old Bourdain as his hopeful writing career instantly derails.

The film isn’t a sprawling biopic, but an intimate portrait of the summer in which his career path suddenly takes a U-turn. It is full of experiences, drunken stupors, girls and everything else that comes with being 19 and having no idea what you want to become. The film sells itself with a quote Bourdain once made about himself: ‘I was, to be frank, a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking.’

It is directed by Matt Johnson, whose credits include BlackBerry, Operation Avalanche and, of course, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. It also stars Stavros Halkias and Antonio Banderas.