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Boy Erased

2018

Joel Edgerton

Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, Joel Edgerton ...

6.3

5,384

Drama The son (Lucas Hedges) of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program. Jared Eamons (Lucas Hedges) is outed to his parents Nancy and Marshall Eamons (Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe) as gay at the age of 19. Jared is quickly pressured into attending a gay conversion therapy program – or else be shunned by his family, friends, and church. It is within the program that ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"Edgerton's career as a filmmaker rises to a whole new level with this sophomore effort (...) A richly humanistic, emotionally searing drama that sticks in the memory."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[It] feels like its greatest value will be to parents, particularly those with LGBT children of their own (...) Crowe and Kidman have seldom been better in their supporting roles."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] hits you like a shot in the heart (...) Kidman brings stirring compassion and a growing strength (...) And Crowe is magnificent (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"It’s a curiously underwhelming, muted, often plodding two hours that fails to reach the emotional highs and devastating lows one would expect from the material (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Sasha Stone The Wrap	"What to show, what not to show — that was the question. Edgerton navigates the boundary with grace and sensitivity (...) 'Boy Erased' is a good movie and also an important one"	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"[Hedges] makes his in-the-closet confusion palpable and tragic (...) Despite the film’s urgency, it feels dramatically undercooked until the final act"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A powerfully conflicted portrait of the relationship between love and hate (...) Regards everyone with such raw empathy that even its most difficult moments are fraught with the possibility of forgiveness."	POS
United States	Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"Edgerton can’t entirely thread the overall narrative through Jared’s conversion experience (...) The film is at its best when it focuses on the relationship between Jared and Nancy"	NEU
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"The film’s heart is firmly in the right place (...) Hedges and Crowe are terrific together"	POS
United States	Lawrence Garcia AV Club	"[The flashbacks] fail to really define [Jared] beyond plot necessity—the film’s major misstep (...) The impression of an identity warped and obscured by external forces is true to the film’s evocative title"	NEU

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