Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

Its a stellar profile of an American sweetheart, that is sharp, kind and unforgiving just like its subject.

Both incredibly personal and beautifully universal, this is a raw and authentic look at life and the complexity of happiness which achieves more than nearly any other film in recent memory has.

I came out of the film admiring and missing Bourdain even more than I had going in.

After a pretty but vacant 80 minutes, "Roadrunner" evokes its namesake's nemesis - running into the ravine by interrogating what or who precipitated Bourdain's 2018 death by suicide, with all the aesthetic choices of some tawdry true-crime series.

Everyone who loved the man grapples with their grief and anger, trying to wrest some meaning from the void that suicide leaves behind, and only memories remain. It is beyond bittersweet.