'Club Kid' Dances to the Rhythm of Its Own Drum and Bass

Jordan Firstman (Sort Of) Grows Up With Debut Feature Film ‘Club Kid’

As the Instagram star-turned-auteur brought his Cannes breakout home to the New York Film Festival, he talked about adding a queer entry to the comedy canon, and how he’s more patient than he thought.

'Club Kid' dances to the rhythm of its own drum and bass

There's every reason to be wary of Club Kid, one of those manchild-must-grow-up-when-a-cute-kid-shows-up stories. But Jordan Firstman's directorial debut is different.

Club Kid Review: An outrageous but affecting A24 comedy-drama

PLOT: Peter (Jordan Firstman), a drug-addled party promoter in NYC, discovers he has a ten-year-old son. REVIEW: Jordan Firstman is one of the more provocative personalities to emerge online in recent years. Deliberately abrasive, to the point that after the Cannes premiere (where we first saw it) of his first feature, Club Kid, he asked if anyone in the audience had a bump of cocaine he could do, Firstman would be easy to dismiss if he didn’t h…

Club Kid Review: Jordan Firstman Delivers Heartfelt Debut

Club Kid is a confident and heartfelt coming-of-age story about the pains of self-improvement from Jordan Firstman in his directorial debut.

Club Kid Review: A Bittersweet, Tremendously Moving Debut

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2026 Cannes coverage. The film arrives in theaters on November 6. It’s never wise to assume anything. Promotional materials doing the rounds before Club Kid‘s raucous Cannes premiere this week suggested a New York downtown scene answer to Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden, but Jordan Firstman’s funny, […] The post Club Kid Review: A Bittersweet, Tremendously Moving Debut first appeared on The Film S…