Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will always hurt you … slowly, painfully, ceaselessly. That old platitude gets a thorny inversion in “The Gift,” a psychologically potent parable about victimization and vindication that marks an impressive directorial debut for Joel Edgerton — an Australian actor who alternates between
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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will always hurt you … slowly, painfully, ceaselessly. That old platitude gets a thorny inversion in “The Gift,” a psychologically potent parable about victimization and vindication that marks an impressive directorial debut for Joel Edgerton — an Australian actor who alternates between