Review by boophillips

I'm pretty disappointed. High hopes of a great director, great leading man and solid ensemble cast were dashed by a meandering surreal film that said very little and went nowhere. Little pockets of brilliance (the street scenes outside his apartment, the child's lamp Illuminating his mothers face in a sequence about the death of his father) are lost is turgidly slow scenes that meant nothing and go nowhere. Woefully underused / underacted Pheonix just looked bewildered. I left the cinema after 2 hours, unwilling to give up another hour of my life to such self indulgent rubbish. What a shame, Midsommar and Hereditary were so, so good. This didn't need to be as horrific as those, I was up for surreal black comedy but this was just, well, nothingness.