Club Kid Dismantles a Curated Persona
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Club Kid is written and directed by Jordan Firstman, who also stars as Peter, a character the BFI review says echoes his former on-screen personas while giving a vulnerability the review calls new for the actor. The review describes Peter's cyclical life unravelling in slow motion until a discovery smacks him out of his stupor: he is a dad.
That is a shrewd setup: the man who has curated a persona is forced into a fact he cannot style his way out of. The risk is that fatherhood becomes a plot device that redeems him too neatly; the review's emphasis on vulnerability suggests the film is at least trying to avoid that.
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The fatherhood reveal is an old narrative move, but it lands better if the film has already made Peter's cyclical life look like something that is coming apart.
Maybe, but the review also says the performance is a vulnerable, open wound, which makes the reveal feel less like a gimmick and more like a diagnosis.