Our Hero, Balthazar

Name: Our Hero, Balthazar
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Released: March 27, 2026
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 72

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WG Pictures | Release Date: March 27, 2026 | R

Summary: Eager to impress his activist crush, a wealthy New York teenager follows an online connection to Texas, where he's convinced he can stop an act of extreme violence.

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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Kyle Smith

Mar 26, 2026

The film may not propose a solution to any of our maladies, but it’s a bitterly convincing diagnosis. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Mar 2, 2026

Alternately disturbing and brutally funny, and ending with the sort of capper that perfectly encapsulates its provocative ethos, this marks an auspicious directorial debut for Oscar Boyson. Read full review

Next Best Picture Giovanni Lago

Mar 2, 2026

Our Hero, Balthazar, is a riotous dark comedy that manages to push all the right buttons in its curiosity about an isolation that is currently plaguing young male zoomers. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Mar 2, 2026

It’s a cutting, audacious, and at times astonishing movie. Read full review

The Film Stage John Fink

Mar 2, 2026

Our Hero Balthazar is an effective entry point into a crisis that truly needs more coverage in both documentary and narrative cinema. Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Mar 2, 2026

Our Hero, Balthazar isn’t cold by any means, but the result comes off as more ethnographic in tone than the in-your-face bravado of the approach would suggest. Read full review

Lisa Kennedy

Mar 26, 2026

So many details in this comedy-drama (a characterization worth quibbling with) are meant to provoke. And Our Hero, Balthazar teases with the promise of a darkly intelligent film. Not unlike its protagonist’s tears, the effect is dismayingly performative. Read full review

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