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6:30pm • Monday, Jun 8, 2026
Our Hero, Balthazar (Director in Attendance for Q&A)
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. With Jaeden Martell, Asa Butterfield, Chris Bauer, Jennifer Ehle, Avan Joggia.
Director Oscar Boyson (UNCUT GEMS, GOOD TIME) will be joining us at the Rio Theatre for a post-show Q&A following the screening on June 8.
"Oscillating between brutal humor and unsettling insight, 'Our Hero, Balthazar is an audacious and often astonishing directorial debut tinged with riveting performances and sprawling thematic ambition." (Rotten Tomatoes)
"It’s a cutting, audacious, and at times astonishing movie. Yet what makes it work is that Boyson, who co-wrote the script with Ricky Camilleri, is truly onto something." (Variety)
"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." (The Hollywood Reporter)
"A black-comic acid bath that, in only an hour and a half, nods to so many contemporary concerns that it rivals last year’s “Eddington” in its scope... The film may not propose a solution to any of our maladies, but it’s a bitterly convincing diagnosis." (Wall Street Journal)
"Taken all together, “Our Hero, Balthazar” is a button pusher that holds up a mirror to America and asks what is performative and what is real. It also dwells on how we can get out of this quicksand trap that young men are trapped in right now. " (San Jose Mercury News)
Monday, June 8
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Tickets HERE
OUR HERO BALTHAZAR (Oscar Boyson, 2026 / 96 mins / NR) Follows a wealthy New York City teenager who, eager to impress his activist crush, follows an online connection to Texas where he believes he can stop an act of extreme violence.
