Some of my favorite praise for Timothée Chalamet’s film performances // a thread

Miss Stevens // “A high point of the movie is his explosive delivery of a monologue from “Death of a Salesman” during the competition. Mr. Chalamet suggests a younger, more high-strung James Dean.” (NYT, 2016)

CMBYN // “And Chalamet, with his restless, impatient physicality and a face as sensual and sculpted as a fallen angel from a Caravaggio painting, is quite simply astonishing.” (The Observer, 2017)

Little Women // “Chalamet is more than worthy, combining the genial playfulness of youth, a passionate ardor for Jo, and a world-weary (and slightly comical) self-pity when she turns him down.” (Boston Globe, 2019)

The King // “Among the most exciting actors of his generation at 23 years of age, he lands on the perfect canvas to marry his stage-imbued talent, soulful gravitas and undeniable movie-star charisma in “Animal Kingdom” director David Michôd’s “The King”...” (RogerEbert, 2019)

Beautiful Boy // “...come when he’s with Chalamet, who gives a radiant, preternaturally wise performance. The loose but confident command of craft that Chalamet showed in Miss Stevens and CMBYN is here further deepened and clarified.” (Vanity Fair, 2018)

Lady Bird // “... while Chalamet, the breakout star of the forthcoming “CMBYN,” gets self-involved bad boy Kyle just right.” (LA Times, 2017)

Beautiful Boy // “...Chalamet now leaves no doubt that he’s an actor of refined and profound gifts: His performance helps elevate a boho-bourgeois melodrama to something that aspires to be more achingly real and human.” (Wapo, 2018)

Little Women // “To balance all this feminine energy there’s Chalamet’s pitch-perfect Laurie, the enthusiastic outsider who joins the girls’ games and bonds with Jo. Chalamet’s established chemistry with Ronan serves them well...” (Empire, 2019)

CMBYN // “...but Chalamet’s face and body language turn his character into an open book. The minutes-long and wordless final shot, another rare close-up of Elio, is so mesmerizing that it immediately cements his status as one of the world’s brightest young talents.” (THR, 2017)

The King // “...Chalamet effortlessly conveys the air of inborn command that hangs around the heir to the throne no matter how young and dissolute. More than that, the actor also calls upon an unexpected fierceness...” (LA Times, 2019)

Little Women // “Chalamet, not Streep, is Gerwig’s secret weapon...It hardly needs saying that CMBYN wasn’t a fluke, and the jolting electricity of Chalamet in this context proves why.” (The Telegraph, 2019)

CMBYN // “It’s truly hard to put into words what a revelation Chalamet is as Elio. The 21-year-old actor is naturally charismatic, but how he communicates Elio’s emotions throughout the picture is simply breathtaking.” (The Playlist, 2017)

Beautiful Boy // “No matter how many times you look at Chalamet’s face, it always surprises you. He’s the rare actor you could call handsome and beautiful at the same time, and his pale stretchy features seem to wrap themselves around the emotions he’s feeling.” (Variety, 2018)

Little Women // “Both Ronan and Chalamet are magically explosive. We’re just the moths to their ever-burning stars. The “CMBYN” actor capitalizes upon his unique combination of despondent attractiveness and buoyant charm.” (The Playlist, 2019)

Miss Stevens // “She’s aided wonderfully by Chalamet, whose Billy is a quietly powerful package of watchfulness and elusive teenage gloom...Chalamet also delivers the Biff monologue from “Death of a Salesman” like a boss, and just as you’d imagine Billy would.” (The Wrap, 2016)

The King // “The performance is internalized, at times nearly sulky, yet he draws the audience in and silences his advisers with a stillness that suggests a great, bereaved wisdom. Where did it come from? That’s the mystery and the magnetism of what the actor’s doing.” (BG, 2019)

CMBYN // “In Call Me by Your Name, the gifted young American actor Timothée Chalamet plays Elio... Chalamet gives the performance of the year.” (Vulture, 2017)

Beautiful Boy // “Chalamet is operating on another level, channeling James Dean levels of teenage angst, and demonstrating with frustrating clarity the ongoing battle between emotional neediness and defensive resentment.” (IGN, 2018)

Little Women // “...but Chalamet feels the Lauriest of Lauries: Doe-eyed and floppy-haired, alternately indolent and hyper-attentive, and so faithful as to seem almost fraternal, he plays the Marches’ devoted admirer as if channeling a young Daniel Day-Lewis...” (Variety, 2019)

Beautiful Boy // “Chalamet follows his star-making turns in “Lady Bird,” “Hostiles” and “CMBYN” with another blazingly strong performance as Nic, a shining star in the making who is turning into a burnt-out shell of a human being day by day, relapse after relapse.” (CST, 2018)

Miss Stevens // “Chalamet’s performance, however, is the heart of the movie. ... He is compelling even when he’s just watching silently and reacting to the other characters. When he has to explode with rage or manic energy, he’s startling.” (THR, 2016)

Miss Stevens // “And in the drama competition, his reading of a climactic speech from Death of a Salesman suggests that this young actor has a bright future in many different media. (I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a better performance of that speech.)” (THR, 2016)

The King // “At that moment it also becomes indisputably clear in Chalamet's fine-grained performance — some of the most moving moments of which are entirely internalized — that Hal has become a man to be reckoned with.” (THR, 2019)

Beautiful Boy // “Chalamet gets a chance he hasn’t yet had to play a character who comes apart at the seams before our eyes, and he has plenty of range... It’s hard to imagine most actors of his generation pulling off the role of Nic as well as he does.” (Vox, 2018)

Beautiful Boy // “...even in scenes of twitchiness and tears, you will not catch him acting. He finds the emotional core of this character, and hangs onto it for dear life, even when he’s at his worst.” (The Playlist, 2018)

Little Women // “...whose languidly graceful performance is almost Keatonesque in its playful physicality. As in Gerwig’s directorial debut “Lady Bird,” he and Ronan are terrific foils in an unrequited love story for the ages.” (Wapo, 2019)

CMBYN // “Portrayed with a note-perfect combination of cocky self-assurance and wary naiveté by Chalamet, Elio is something of an extension of the actor's hilariously pretentious character in the recent film "Lady Bird”.” (Wapo, 2017)

The King // “But if anyone remains unconvinced that he’s a fine actor as well, The King might do the trick: His eyes have a dark, hypnotic solemnity, as if he’s weighing every word he hears for secret meaning.” (Time, 2019)

Miss Stevens // “...particularly Chalamet as a student whose jaundiced view of the world has given him a desire for deeper, more truthful connections. (It also may have made him a damn good stage actor, as ably confirmed by some choice moments from “DoaS.”)” (Variety, 2016)

CMBYN // “...thanks to Chalamet’s breathtakingly detailed and intimate performance, we know exactly who this kid is, what he desires, and how much he is and isn’t ready for.” (Slate, 2017)

The King // “Chalamet does robust work, straightening his lanky posture as he goes, rising up into the role like a man ascendant.” (Vanity Fair, 2019)

Little Women // “And if you didn’t get the hype for Chalamet after “CMBYN” and “Lady Bird,” this’ll do it. He’s all floppy-haired charm and broody gravitas as Laurie...” (USA Today, 2019)

Beautiful Boy // “But it’s the two leads who, thanks to their astonishing, ripped-from-the-guts performances, make this movie a standout. Chalamet’s withdrawal scene alone should put the CMBYN Oscar-nominee back in the awards race.” (Rolling Stone, 2018)

CMBYN // “And Chalamet, who can also be seen right now seducing Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird, is nothing less than the acting discovery of the year. Watch as the ends credits roll and he holds the camera in reactive closeups that will wreck you.” (Rolling Stone, 2017)

CMBYN // “One of the many impressive elements of Chalamet’s beautiful, complex performance is the effortless way he transitions between speaking in English, Italian and French, depending on whom Elio is with at the time.” (RogerEbert, 2017)

The King // “Chalamet shines in this role, which evolves throughout the film, transforming Hal from a drunken cad who shuns every aspect of his birthright into a vengeful force fueled by lies and malicious momentum.” (IGN, 2019)

Beautiful Boy // “But the nonlinear structure can’t abstract the animated, wrenchingly physical power of Chalamet’s acting. If anything, it layers the CMBYN star’s performance...” (AV Club, 2018)

Little Women // “It's the young cast who owns the film, though, with Chalamet coming to life as the girls' horribly suave neighbor and habitual heartbreaker, Laurie...Ronan, Pugh, and Chalamet are standouts in an impressive lineup.” (IGN, 2019)

Beautiful Boy // “A test of an actor is playing someone who’s split in so many ways that he moves forward while looking backwards and vice versa, and Chalamet is already a master.” (Vulture, 2018)

The King // “And Timothée Chalemet, I predict, could be the biggest movie star of his generation. As he demonstrates in “The King,” he’s got it — not just the talent (though he’s a superb actor), but the ability to fix an audience with his stare...” (Variety, 2019)

Beautiful Boy // “Chalamet might be the male actor of his generation. Still only 22, Chalamet gives an extraordinary performance in this story of a young man’s descent into methamphetamine addiction...Chalamet is so good it’s worth seeing for his work alone.” (LA Times, 2018)

Little Women // “All the Laurie-and-Jo shippers out there will be pleased to know that Chalamet, he of the bladelike cheekbones and elfin-yet-lanky grace, is the most perfect Laurie who ever Lauried.” (Slate, 2019)

CMBYN // “In a giant step up from playing Matthew McConaughey’s son in Interstellar, Chalamet is remarkable, etching an unshowy portrait of a boy on the cusp of adulthood; constantly pretending, seemingly unsure how to behave.” (Total Film, 2017)

The King // “Chalamet is a superb, thoughtful actor who seems to completely inhabit the characters he plays. He brings a warrior’s bearing and the necessary gravitas to the role.  The depth of his world weariness is one of the best aspects of The King.” (Original CIN, 2019)

Little Women // “The chemistry between Ronan and Chalamet (who appeared together in Lady Bird) is charming throughout...No disrespect to the women giving vividly inhabited performances, but the remarkable Chalamet's surprising choices make him the real standout here.” (THR, 2019)

Now the countdown begins until we can add his upcoming movies to this list!