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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Pariah’ is a coming-out tale to be embraced

The film is a rare revelation about life as a middle-class, gay, African-American teen

By Wesley Morris

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 06, 2012

*** Pariah Dee Rees’s first dramatic feature is a coming-of-age and coming-out drama centered on a 17-year-old Brooklyn lesbian (Adepero Oduye). It’s a movie that feels in all its vividness, specificity, and honesty - and in its amateurish screenwriting, too - like something found from the early- to mid-1990s when American independent moviemaking encouraged far more conversations than it currently does about the sexuality of young, brown girls. (88 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)

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