Trump is bad but Gary Dauberman is worse

Aster’s terrible, scaly wings have finally pierced through the crust of his creative cocoon. What’s emerged is a creature blindly cruel, excruciatingly funny, and, as you might have guessed, deeply disturbed. A beast of chaos, unimaginable in shape, Lovecraftian in nature, and at last, fully formed.
While his previous feature, Beau Is Afraid, experimented with existing beyond category, Eddington does so with evil confidence. This is not truly a COVID story, so don’t worry. Instead, it’s a film that uses…
Decades after decadent ’90s gothic bouquets like Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow and Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula, Robert Eggers emerges from the shadows with his own cinematic phantasmagoria with Nosferatu, and just when we were craving it the most.
Lily-Rose Depp shines brightest here, delivering a full-bodied performance like some grotesque ballerina as she carries the film from start to finish. A role that could have so easily fallen into waifish stereotype instead outshines a room full of greats.
While this…