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Pariah

Who do you become when you can't be yourself?

2011 · 1h 26m · R Drama
Directed by Dee Rees

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A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

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Fresh

The gay coming-of-age story's been done, but "Pariah" has something fresh to say, largely about the knotty complexities of love, and how they might keep someone in the closet: How badly do you need to be free, to hurt the people you love?

John Anderson, Newsday
Rotten

Rees brings a heartfelt connection to the material, based on her own coming-out story, but the film's ingredients aren't the freshest.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh

You don't have to be black or lesbian or even know someone who's gay to appreciate "Pariah"; you just have to have gone through or be going through the process of growing up.

Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh

"Pariah" is a small film about a big subject: the struggle to be who you are, not who others would like you to be.

Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh

If the destination is trite, the journey isn't - it comes with an ample supply of raw honesty.

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

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