'' BABYGIRL '' AND BARRIER : FILM HONOURS DICKINSON

For him - acting is both love and hate. Harris Dickinson uses his complicated feelings to vivify films like '' Babygirl.''

With the right actor, ambivalence can be enticing. If you can't tell whether or not someone wants something, you lean forward. There's suspense.

Ambivalence is part of the allure when it comes to Harris Dickinson, the British actor who first broke out with the 2017 indie '' Beach Rats, '' in which he played a sexually confused Brooklyn teenager.

You were never quite certain what the character wanted and maybe he didn't know, either. But because of that, and because Dickinson is the type of actor to never overplay his hand, even watching him do something small had you in tenterhooks.

Now 28, Dickinson has found the ideal vehicle for his stock in trade. In the new film '' Babygirl, '' he plays Samuel, an intern caught up in the risky affair with his married boss, Romy [Nicole Kidman].

The World Students Society thanks Kyle Buchanan.