Our Hero, Balthazar
WG Pictures | Release Date: March 27, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithMar 26, 2026
The film may not propose a solution to any of our maladies, but it’s a bitterly convincing diagnosis. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanMar 2, 2026
It’s a cutting, audacious, and at times astonishing movie. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMar 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
80
Next Best PictureGiovanni LagoMar 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
75
The Film StageJohn FinkMar 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
67
IndieWireRyan LattanzioMar 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
60
The GuardianPhil HoadJul 13, 2026
The film scrabbles to come up with a suitably calamitous climax, though, and the focus settles too much on the incel. This is good news for Butterfield, who shows his range in shifting from schlubby haplessness to good ol’ boy posturing, but less so for Martell, equally impressive in his weaseliness. The two of them make an endearing pair: a bipartisan declaration of American incompetence. Read full review
60
The New York TimesLisa KennedyMar 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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