“Club Kid” Is a Disarming Cocktail of Grit and Fantasy
The New Yorker · 6 Nov 2026

“Club Kid” Is a Disarming Cocktail of Grit and Fantasy

“Club Kid” is Firstman’s filmmaking début, and he proves as skilled a ringmaster behind the camera as Peter is inside a night club. The movie exudes a startling confidence, at once buoyant and grounded—the kind of assurance that can emerge when a young director’s grasp of the medium, however nascent, is in synch with his feel for his characters and their world.


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