Metacritic reviews

The Peanut Butter Falcon refuses to condescend to its star and tells a story that’s authentic to the life and experiences of adults with Down Syndrome.

By keeping the humor rooted in the performances and only letting sentimentality creep in when necessary, Nelson and Schwartz have crafted a film that feels refreshing, unique, and emotional.

While one wishes the beats were a touch more oiled, the film’s strengths reside outside the confines of narrative.

What it lacks in originality it makes up for in its empathetic charm. Sometimes that’s just enough.

Gottsagen is too lively to be completely pinned down by feel-good clichés, and his unpredictability brings out the best in LaBeouf. As in most buddy pictures, so long as the chemistry works, all else is forgivable.

An odyssey audiences won’t soon forget.

[LaBeouf is] one of the few actors capable of turning this protector companion on the page into a layered role.

It’s a scruffy little movie that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny or over-thinking — at all. But its charm carries it a long way.

The film’s improvisational feel helps to ground a fable-esque narrative in a discernible reality.

[Gottsagen's] sensibility infuses the modern-day fable with an engaging forthrightness. But the unequivocal material often sticks close to the surface, and the film built around him, for all its physical sweep, can feel constricted by obviousness.