The title character of “Our Hero, Balthazar” is no one’s idea of a hero. But he’s certainly a creature for our time. Balthazar, played in a hipster fade and with a puppy-dog scowl by Jaeden Martell, is a New York rich kid with a life coach and a divorced mother (Jennifer Ehle) who’s too busy throwing political cocktail parties to pay him much attention. They live in a Manhattan apartment decorated with expensive art, where Balthazar, known as Balthy, acts out his boredom by recording and posting videos of himself crying in the most tormented and “sincere” way. He can cry about anything, in sympathy with any victim. (The
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