Anton Yelchin

In Jodie Foster's The Beaver, Anton Yelchin plays the son of the man Mel Gibson plays, a teenager who writes other people's homework for them. Nicolas Rapold, reviewing it for Sight and Sound, spares him a single adjective, sharp. The piece immediately makes his subplot the instance of the fault it has just laid at the screenplay's door, describing the character's winning and losing and winning again as arbitrary on-message rise-and-falls and Mad Libs character traits. The one sentence that names him is also the sentence introducing the customer Jennifer Lawrence plays. Six of his thirteen films here predate the point at which the archive stops, and still The Beaver is the only one it ever looks at.