'XXY': Elegant In Its Awkwardness
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8/14/2008
"XXY" is, in the best possible sense of the word, an awkward film. Not only because its protagonist, Alex (the remarkable Inés Efron), is just 15 -- that most awkward of ages under the best of circumstances -- but also because it dwells on sands of constantly shifting doubt and confusion.