Movie review: Dear Evan Hansen shouldn’t work but is a charming coming-of-age story

It asks fascinating questions about identity and self-delusion, with Ben Platt wonderfully brittle and poignant as the hapless Evan

Dear Evan Hansen

★★★★☆

Adapted from the award-winning stage musical of the same name, Dear Evan Hansen (12A) stars Ben Platt as Evan, a high school teenager suffering from social anxiety.