Biopic Tony Skirts Bourdain’s Legacy, Silencing the Kitchen Workforce

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BBC Culture’s review of Tony finds the biopic entertaining but narrow, centering a youth-and-romance arc while sidelining the immigrant and people of color kitchen workers who were central to Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, thereby underplaying his real legacy—even as the film offers solid period detail and performances.
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