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‘Bob Trevino Likes It’ Review: Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo Are Broken Souls Who Meet on the Internet in a Four-Hankie Indie Gem

Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo are broken souls who meet on the Internet in Tracie Laymon's affectingly authentic movie.

Ferreira, who is best known for portraying Kat Hernandez on the first two seasons of “Euphoria,” plays Lily Trevino, who lives in a small town in northern Kentucky, where she’s a friendly and aimless 25-year-old slacker. An early scene in which she has dinner with her dad, the sixtyish grinning goateed Bob (French Stewart), who lives in a mobile-home retirement community, makes us think that he’s some sort of prickly “charmer.” But we aren’t seeing the half of it. That’s one of the film’s only moments of fake “quirky comedy.” Yet it’s still an amazing scene for the matter-of-factness with which Lily lays out her story — how her mother, a drug addict, abandoned her when she was four, and how her father did things like lock her in a room for 24 hours, always implying that she was the problem.

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