Pillion review: Harry Melling accepts Alexander Skarsgård as his biker daddy in an A24 crowd-pleaser

In Harry Lighton's feature-length directorial debut Pillion, a gay introvert's delayed coming-of-age — catalyzed by the advances of a suave, reclusive biker — kicks off a raucous tale of physical and emotional exploration. Although initially sketched in broad strokes, the movie gradually digs into its sexual complications, centering on a dominant-submissive dynamic that lives in the gray area of consent.

Like its 1970s-set source material — Adam Mars-Jones' 2020 leather subculture novel Box Hill ...