Critics gushing over "Call Me By Your Name"

With Hollywood and DC crawling with sexual abuse scandals this jewel comes along.

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In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, as scores of Hollywood's A-list talent and power brokers are being exposed for their alleged sexual misconduct, it seems oddly tone deaf for the industry to hail as an "Oscar contender" a movie about a 25-year-old man seducing a 17-old-boy. Yet, the movie, "Call Me By Your Name," stars Armie Hammer ("The Social Network"), as a lecherous 25-year-old preying on the 17-year-old Timothée Chalamet ("Interstellar") during one hot Italian summer in 1983.

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Here's how Angie Han of Mashable glowingly described the film's subject matter, praising it for shrugging off the bourgeois? values inherent in relationships "filtered through a heterosexual male gaze."

Sound and image collide to create an almost tactile sensation. You can practically feel the sun on your skin and taste the sweat on your lips. Much attention is paid to the way the two romantic leads – young Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer) – carry themselves and regard each other, and the physical attraction between them feels immediate and electric. It's not that Call Me By Your Name is especially explicit (though the famous peach scene is definitely going to get people talking), but that it's unmistakably sensual. Sex is no mere byproduct of love; nor is love an elevation of sex. In Call Me By Your Name, the romantic and the erotic are inextricably intertwined.

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The "infamous peach scene" referred to above involves the 17-year-old boy masturbating into a cut peach, which Armie Hammer's character eventually eats. Like this transgender artist urinating into a bucket to protest Trump, biting into a peach once used as an instrument for self-stimulation now passes as "art."

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Currently 98% on rotten tomatoes. By all means, continue boycotting the NFL for movies.