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The Starling Girl (2023)

the starling girl movie posterEliza Scanlen (Old, HBO’s Sharp Objects) may be a name that doesn’t roll off the tip of our tongues yet, but very well could in a few years if she continues to piece together performances as she has in Little Women, The Devil All The Time, and Babyteeth, she could find herself in the same conversation as her Little Women co-stars Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, and Emma Watson. Some may think she’s already there but still needs the supporting body of work. In either case, her performance as Jem Starling, a 17-year-old discovering her identity while growing up in a Kentucky fundamentalist Christian community, is nothing short of mesmerizing in Laurel Parmet’s, albeit flawed, directorial debut, The Starling Girl.

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