Lucas Hedges Is the Beating Heart of the Dutiful Boy Erased

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 of its aims, even if we can see its flaws.