Dope as shit

Brigsby Bear

Crit

Dogtooth meets Napoleon Dynamite, except it's not in Greek, like the former story of overprotective parenting, and while it shares a gangly adolescent sensibility with the latter, that sensibility engaged me a lot more here. Add to that a spot-on depiction of the lovefest that grows up around the making of an independent film, and we have maybe my favorite weird pic of the year, and one of my favorite pix.

Trailers

• Novitiate--Oh, this looks scary good, with Melissa Leo as an anti-Vatican 2 mother superior in 1964.
• Call Me by Your Name--Another homoerotic teacher-student teaser.
• The Florida Project--If it can avoid oversweetness (trailer suggests it can), this might be in Little Miss Sunshine territory.