Prime Video has just added one of the year's best movies

The film has a 93% critics' score and a 92% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Tony, the new movie about Anthony Bourdain and one of JOE's favourite films of the year so far, has just been added to Prime Video.

A quote from the famed chef and writer describing his younger self opens the biographical comedy -drama. It reads: "I was - to be frank - a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking."

Movie Title	Tony
Where to Watch	Prime Video
Cast	Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas, Leo Woodall, Emilia Jones, Stavros Halkias, Dagmara Domińczyk, Rich Sommer
Length	106 minutes

From there, we meet this young lout at 17 (played by Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers). It's 1975, and Anthony 'Tony' Bourdain has just applied for a writing fellowship that would send him to New York City.

In fact, he's so confident he will be chosen for the fellowship that he lies to his parents (Dagmara Domińczyk and Rich Sommer) and the girl he has a crush on, Nancy (Emilia Jones, The Running Man), telling them the writing opportunity is already his.

As expected, another student is eventually selected for the fellowship. Feeling angry, disappointed and rejected, Bourdain impulsively flees home. He decides to travel to the coastal resort town of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Nancy said she would be spending the summer.

Upon arrival, Bourdain sees his crush already has a boyfriend. Later, he drowns his sorrows at the bar of a local restaurant, where he becomes drunk and disorderly and gets kicked out. The next morning, however, the enigmatic head chef (a wonderful Antonio Banderas, Babygirl) decides to give the young man a chance, offering him a job as a dishwasher for his kitchen.

As Bourdain spends the summer working in the restaurant and getting to know its staff, he begins to find his true calling.

Watch the trailer for Tony right here:

Tony avoids the well-documented years of Anthony Bourdain's life, imagining instead the "one magical summer" where he transitioned from that "thoughtless young lout" into the man who would go on to inspire countless chefs, cooks, and food lovers worldwide.

By being less of a biopic and more of a coming-of-age hangout comedy-drama that happens to be about Bourdain, the movie gets to the heart of the icon more so than a straightforward, birth-to-death presentation of his life probably ever could. That's because it has the space to linger in both its lead character's feelings of teenage disaffection and the art of cooking and all its accompanying rituals. The more we witness the latter, the more we see how it gets Bourdain's creative juices flowing, giving him a sense of purpose.

A hangout film only succeeds if it's fun or fascinating to spend time within the world of its story. Thankfully, Tony's vibes are always intoxicating.

Co-written and directed by on-the-rise director Matt Johnson (Blackberry, this year's Nirvanna the Band the Show), the coastal period setting is gorgeous and tactile. This is as the kitchen-set scenes hum with the same energy, humour and specificity that made people fall in love with The Bear.

As the young Bourdain, still going by just Tony, falls in love with the idea of cooking, you might too as you watch along.

Antonio Banderas and Dominic Sessa in Tony

Johnson comes from a comedy background and constantly locates unexpected pockets of humour. He finds laughs in Bourdain's inexperience and youth-related setbacks, as well as his blossoming mentorship under two different colleagues.

These are Banderas' unnamed and wise head chef, and Sal (an electric Leo Woodall, Tuner), a younger cook and all-around wild man who takes Bourdain under his wing. Together, the two become devil and angel on the title character's shoulders.

Dominic Sessa is note-perfect again, not long after The Holdovers, where he played another teen in the 1970s whose cockiness hid deep insecurity. While Tony's female characters are not quite as developed as you'd like, and it eventually succumbs to some biopic clichés, for much of its running time, the movie is an exquisitely prepared cinematic meal.

How to watch and where is it streaming?

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