Beau Is Afraid
Ari Aster mistakes amplitude for creative insight, inflating a slender conceit about childhood trauma into a three-hour pageant of middle-aged humiliation.
Artsy Fartsy Depravity
Lolita
Nabokov creates new words and organizes others into phrases that were likely never uttered before.
Nocturnal Animals
predictably loaded with style, yet too often feels like a careful construction of cinematic elements rather than an organic creation, and ultimately has very little to say about its subject matter.