This story of an oddball being let out into the world succeeds in its character portrayal even as it stumbles over realityIf you can pick up past the fact that the film was precision-tooled for the quirky feelgood slot of the Sundance film festival; whether you can forgive the glaring product placement and the nerd-gasm casting of sign Hamill in a key role of a film about fan geekery,then there is a fair amount to recommend this solid feature debut.a story that combines the domestic dysfunction of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth with the unabashed film-buff joy of Garth Jennings’s Son of Rambow or Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind, this is a study of a very singular character, or shaped – or scarred – by a unique upbringing.
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Source: guardian.co.uk