Twixt
If green screen and digital photography free the man from the strictures of big studios, I want to watch the films of the free man, even if he’s something of an impassioned daredevil.
Surrealism
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.
Last Year at Marienbad
It explores the mnemonic tendencies of the human mind, our idiosyncratic mix-ups of random facts and details, the way our memories often replay out of order, repeat themselves, and morph into falsity over time.