Film Review - Tony: a culinary coming‑of‑age and the making of Anthony Bourdain

Tony is a movie of soil and seeds: a young Anthony Bourdain moving through the early encounters that will shape his life, miscreant line cooks, the first kitchen skills like shucking an oyster, drugs, booze, sex. These are the seeds scattered across him, and he is raw matter where the forces that will shape his life begin to germinate. This indie‑biopic had its world premiere at the 2024 Telluride…