I truly do not believe that Hugh Grant would be able to access Heretic levels of gripping insanity or malice had he not been stripped of his comfy, floppy-haired dignity as an almost too affable rom-com star and dragged down Sunset Blvd as a morality tale in the 90’s for trying to pick up a sex worker. 

In a world where that didn’t happen he’s playing father of the bride to his and Julia Roberts’ annoying grown daughter in Notting…

This movie is perfectly titled because Kieran Culkin’s character is in all actuality an obnoxious, self-absorbed millennial shithead who is completely convinced that his feelings matter more than those of anyone around him, but Eisenberg’s careful dialogue does juuuust enough to let you peek behind that one dimension to see how genuinely fucked up this kid is. He’s real. He’s in pain. He’s also a real pain in the dick.

The funniest part of the movie, of course, is the…

I’ve seen a lot of drastically opposing takes among reasonably tasteful people on whether the acting in this movie is good or bad. I think that’s where the debate has landed because Eggers framing, color palette and camera work are sort of inarguably great and yet there is definitely something … off here.

For me, it’s that a lot of the actors seem to think they’re performing in slightly different movies. Lily Rose Depp thinks she’s in a body horror,…