A beating heart saves a dutiful film
by Stephanie Zacharek
Nov 05, 2018
2 minutes
WE LIVE IN AN AGE WHEN MOVIES OFTEN SEEM MORE important for what they’re saying than for what they are. When we go into a quiet film about a serious subject—like Boy Erased, directed by Joel Edgerton and adapted from Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir about enduring conversion therapy—our automatic response is to approve
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