Movie review: 'Beach Rats,' Eliza Hittman's study of a teen's confusion, is an erotic summer-of-love drama
by By Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Aug 25, 2017
3 minutes
Frankie, the shy Brooklyn teenager at the center of Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats," has a soft, low voice, a well-muscled physique and intense blue eyes that seem to contain worlds of private heartache. Over the course of the movie, more than a few strangers will stare longingly at that physique and into those eyes, most of them middle-aged men whom Frankie meets in online chat rooms at night, seeking a flash of skin, a
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