“Bruiser” is an anxious film filled with unmistakable beauty and obsessed with conceptions of family, love, growth, the past, and the future.

What makes “Bruiser” so affecting is that Warren doesn’t keep any of these characters locked into types.

I have a feeling we will look back on “Bruiser” as the affirmation of two major talents in Hall and Warren. Like Darious himself, they’re just getting started.

Anchored in a phenomenal performance by Jalyn Hall, Bruiser is an interesting and stylish exploration of toxic masculinity that proves for an interesting watch.