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Ponyboi
Directed by
Esteban Arango
R
2025
1h 43m
Drama
,
Crime
,
and more
5.8
83%
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Unfolding over the course of Valentine's Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.
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Cast of Ponyboi
River Gallo
Ponyboi / Writer / Producer
Dylan O'Brien
Vinnie
Victoria Pedretti
Angel
Murray Bartlett
Bruce
Keith William Richards
Two-Tone
Indya Moore
Charlie
Juan Carlos Hernández
Carlos
Annie Henk
Luz
Miles Coreas
Young Ponyboi
Stephen Moscatello
Lucky
Jari Jones
Foxxxy
NaTonia Monét
Yolanda
Aphrodite Armstrong
Gina
Denis Lambert
Jeff The Pharmacist
Jacobi Jones
Mick
Chiquitita
Gloria Rosa
Moisés Acevedo
Sticky
Sophie Labelle
Bartender
Bryant Carroll
Al the Truck Driver
Michael Sean McGuinness
Dr. Flores
Kevin McDonald
Silvio
Esteban Arango
Director
Adel 'Future' Nur
Producer
Mark Ankner
Producer
Trevor Wall
Producer
Ponyboi Ratings & Reviews
Kevin Ward
July 2, 2025
A neon-noir crime thriller that has Ponyboi, an intersex sex worker, on the run when a client keels over. Operating out of a laundromat run by Vinnie, a hyper-sleazy Dylan O’brien, Ponyboi resorts to stealing Vinnie’s cash stash, hops across grimy Jersey truckstops, motels and pharmacies, trying to find a way to get out of town. Writer/director/star River Gallo draws a lot from personal experience and it’s this insight into the intersex experience that the film shines brightest. The crime thriller elements are otherwise fairly generic and not very well fleshed out. There’s also a b-storyline where Ponyboi has recently discovered that their estranged father is on his deathbed and has been reaching out for contact. We’re treated to ethereal flashbacks to Ponyboi’s childhood as they grapple with the feelings of being discarded or abandoned. At the same time, the audience never really gets a window into what really happened in Ponyboi’s childhood—just an amorphous feeling that doesn’t completely close the distance between Ponyboi and the audience. By the end, I felt a little mixed about this, but Gallo has a strong creative voice. Recommend.
NPR
Bob Mondello
Heads off in a few too many directions for its own good. But as a vehicle for a character who's male-identifying, female-presenting, nonbinary and constantly being pressed to make entirely binary choices, it's both provocative and entertaining.
Spectrum Culture
Joel Copling
Ponyboi functions quite well as a nimble thriller for so long that one might miss its astuteness as a character study.
Cool Girl Critiques
Alicia Gilstorf
Ponyboi has good and bad parts to offer. And River Gallo's performance as Ponyboi can easily be the sum of its best parts.
The Daily Beast
Jesse Hassenger
Sundance breakout "Ponyboi" is as unwilling to settle on a plot as its main character is wary of strictly defining his gender.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
The quiet character-based scenes are often mesmerizing, as are the dreamy sequences where time seems to stand still. When the plot makes its demands, the spell is broken.
New York Times
Chris Azzopardi
Gallo's star-making turn pushes back against this version of hypermasculinity, reshaping genre conventions that have privileged rigid gender binaries. Watching Gallo carve out space for Ponyboi is its own kind of powerful assertion.
Guy at the Movies
Jeff Nelson
Ponyboi blends two familiar halves - a drug deal gone wrong and an LGBTQ+ coming-of-age story - into something fresh and compelling.
Culturess
Lisa Laman
A breath of fresh air in modern indie crime thrillers.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Somewhat overwrought and undercooked, but nonetheless visually stylish, gritty, captivating and heartfelt.
Wealth of Geeks
Stacey Yvonne
Ponyboi is a revelation of a character who appears to have it all together, and once this mask cracks, he quickly shows that he doesn't, not even a little bit.
Screen Zealots
Louisa Moore
A campy visual feast that's dripping in neon, the style and vibe of this genre-blending LGBTQ+ film features likeable characters, refreshingly blunt sex scenes, and one hell of a wild, intense ride through New Jersey's underbelly.
Next Best Picture
Josh Parham
At its core, it is an attempt to bring about a fresh point of view into a landscape well-trodden by countless other versions that play to the commonplace spaces previously seen.
Film Inquiry
Kristy Strouse
Despite some pacing and plot fumbles, Arango's Ponyboi is a showcase for talented performances with River Gallo and Dylan O'Brien as standouts. Fierce and exciting, Ponyboi predicts a promising future for all involved.
Screen Rant
Graeme Guttmann
We've seen this story before but thanks to Gallo's sharp screenplay & Arango's direction, Ponyboi goes beyond cliché for something more profound.
Pajiba
Sara Clements
Ponyboi does feel familiar plot-wise with its drug deal gone wrong and protagonist on the run, but the film presents a thought-provoking and personal story and will hopefully pave the way for more intersex representation on screen.
Autostraddle
Drew Gregory
Ponyboi is a queer cinema genre pastiche that understands a movie can be artful, emotional, and incredibly entertaining.
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
A sleek film, only occasionally hampered by predictability and contrivance.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Cinema history is short on anyone remotely like Gallo, whose million-watt charisma and one-of-a-kind experience feel wasted in this role.
RogerEbert.com
Robert Daniels
When the director Esteban Arango's "Ponyboi" is humming, it's an inventive crime-thriller.
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