'Starling Girl' centers a teen girl's desire for both holiness and earthly pleasures

Laurel Parmet is too sensitive a filmmaker to turn "The Starling Girl" into yet another criticism of religion. What her film, grounded in Eliza Scanlen's performance, does so well is suggest God also lives in Jem's desire.

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