Dylan O’Brien is an early awards season entry with ‘Twinless.’

Do not read any summaries of this movie. Just go see it. I want you to have the experience I did where you realize the movie you thought you were seeing may not be the movie unfolding on screen.

I’ll try to convince you to go see it by focusing on Dylan O’Brien. I’m not familiar with the young man. I know he was a teen actor and had a terrible accident on a movie set where half his face was crushed. I don’t know if he was a good actor before that or what kind of career trajectory he was on. Was he going to be leading man rom-com material? Character actor? Action star? Serious thespian? Did his career bounce back after reconstructive surgery? What’s his career path now?

I have no idea. But I will say I think he can be whatever the fuck he wants to be because this is probably one of my favorite performances by a man ever, and I don’t even stan for men on screen like that. I think so many of them lose the depth of character that actresses have because the men take themselves to a such a serious place of becoming insufferable for the sake of a character whereas women are more likely to just go to work and do a good job.

I don’t remember the last time a male character made me cry on screen and I did not expect it out of this movie. And I don’t mean “cry” as in I felt a little misty — an actual tear fell! And this has not happened since I saw The Wild Robot.

And at the risk of stereotyping myself and all other queer men, how did Dylan manage to SOUND GAY without coming across like he was TRYING to sound gay? Y’all. Y’ALL! His whole cadence and timbre and inflections felt like he had been studying Gay Voice for years. Even the way his face moved felt gay. But there he was, in the same movie, playing his straight twin, and it was like a completely different person.

I want that young man nominated for EVERYTHING this year and then I want every hot screenwriter to enter a bidding war to have him star in their next film. If Twinless did nothing else, it made me a Dylan O’Brien stan and I’m going to see whatever he shows up in next.

Anyway. It was a roller coaster of a film, and I’m not sure I’m sold on James Sweeney as an actor, but I’m all in on his abilities to write and direct a movie. When we said we wanted original films from Holllywood, this is what we meant. Go see it and then go hug your best friend.