Worried About the Boy

It usually helps if you like the music in the soundtrack of a biopic about a famous musician, but you don’t even really have to know who Boy George or Culture Club were to be enthralled in this fascinating look at fame, those who crave it and what happens when they get what they crave. (Of course you’d have to have been raised in a cave without a radio – or very young – not to remember Boy George’s string of smooth pop tunes from the 80s.) Douglas Booth gives a fascinating performance as George. He not only makes the outrageous makeup and fashion look great – no small achievement since one wrong swipe of the mascara could make him look like a clown – but he makes you see beneath all that style to find the substance beneath it all. And he has the swagger to let you know he doesn’t care if you like what you see or not.