For art's sake

The Family Fang

Crit

I'm never the guy who sees the plot twist coming, but I was pretty sure it was going to be different this time. Nope.

Jason Bateman (who also directed) and Nicole Kidman play children abused when young by their parents (Jason Butler Harner and Kathryn Hahn young, Christopher Walken and Maryann Plunkett in the present) in service of transgressive performance art.

Was I distracted by my (inaccurate) anticipation of where the story was going, or is it really less compelling that it thinks it is?