John Crowley’s film got mostly positive notices on the festival scene last year, and is by most accounts a well-told redemption tale. That said, I’m not sure I’m so keen on this trailer. The film’s premise- does a boy who killed someone as a child ever stop being a murderer, and if so, does he deserve to be forgiven?- is a sound one. Yet I think it’s a miscalculation for the trailer to introduce the murders at the outset. Better, I think, to introduce the character as an adult before springing his past upon us, or even to be vague about the killings altogether. Still, the film looks promising, especially the lead performance by Andrew Garfield, a far cry from the snot-faced douchiness of his performance in Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs.