In the second film of the summer that smooths the rough edges of a complicated man, we meet the future chef and global TV star Anthony Bourdain (played by Dominic Sessa) at age 19, blustering through a comically pretentious fellowship proposal for the dour-faced members of a faculty committee at New York State’s Vassar College. At first, this young Bourdain is easy to imagine as a slightly older version of Sessa’s breakout role in The Holdovers (2023), as if the earlier film’s sullen and...
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August 16, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Why Anthony Bourdain biopic ‘Tony’ puts truth on the back burner
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